United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Tropical Kriegsmarine

Tropical Kriegsmarine

suspended from a 32 mm (w) x 5 mm (h) hanger with pinback)

Footnote: Wolfgang Kretschmer was born on April 15

The poster states that October 1

the front with 13 mm wide bronze convex buttons

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Tropical KriegsmarineConstructed of magnetic iron, the 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