United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed Seizing the opportunity

Seizing the opportunity

He is Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette for Burma on September 2

83mm in total length

with multiple signatures

47mm(w) x 60

United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed Seizing the opportunityConstructed of magnetic iron, 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