United Kingdom. A Boxed Lusitania Medallion Archive & Prussian Red Cross Medal

& Prussian Red Cross Medal

A Second War 1941/42 East Medal by Friedrich Keck - Silvered and blackened zinc

together with 1870-71 Campaign Medal

Oberstein) on reverse

departing England on February 10th aboard the RMS Royal George

United Kingdom. A Boxed Lusitania Medallion Archive & Prussian Red Cross MedalIn blackened 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