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Description: | Medal commemorating the sinking of the SS 'Lusitania', 1915.
Obverse: A crowd of men, one reading a newspaper, inscribed (left) standing clamouring for tickets from Death at the window of a ticket office. Legend: 'GESCH�FT �BER ALLES.' (Business before everything). On office: (above) 'CUNA[RD] LINIE', 'FARHKARTEN AUSGABE'; (side) 'CUNARD.'
Reverse: The SS 'Lusitania' sinking by the stern, an aeroplane and armoured cars on forecastle, inscription below. Legend: 'KEINE BANNWARE.' (No contraband.) Exergue: 'DER GROSSDAMPFER = LUSITANIA = DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT 5 MAI 1915.' (The liner 'Lusitania' sunk by a German submarine. An example of the first issue wrongly dated 5 May, subsequently withdrawn.) Unofficial medal.
English copy of German medal?
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: | medals Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish Karl Goetz Lusitania 1906 British Propaganda during the First World War | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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