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Description: | Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915. Obverse: Death crouching over the 'Lusitania' sinking by the stern. Legend: 'HEIMT�CKE . U . GEWARNTER . LEICHTSINN . AN . BORD . D . LUSITANIA.' (Malice and forewarned foolhardiness on board the 'Lusitania'.) Reverse: Inscription, within a cartouche shaped like a pentagram with scalloped edges, 'DEM VER�CHTER DER . WARNUNG WOODROW WILSON 1916.' (To the scorner of the warning, Woodrow Wilson, [President USA] 1916.)
caption: Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Eberbach medals Lusitania 1906 (SS) W. | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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