United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed practicing Christian virtues

practicing Christian virtues

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Four Miniature British Orders and Medals - Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

bronze gilt with red and blue enamelled insignia on a silvered star base

32 mm x 33

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed practicing Christian virtuesIn 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