United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed on a white wool background

on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer

then with Jagdstaffel 4

disbanding and conversion

I Class Special Grand Cordon

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed on a white wool backgroundIn gilt iron, magnetic, obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to ram