United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed measures 110mm (w – including

measures 110mm (w – including handle) x 63mm (h)

I Class Special Grand Cordon

bearing three field-grey Litzen

disbanding and conversion

on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed measures 110mm (w – includingIn 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