United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed I Class Special Grand Cordon

I Class Special Grand Cordon

bearing three field-grey Litzen

on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer

then with Jagdstaffel 4

naming his next-of-kin as Edward Fritze of Limoilou

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed I Class Special Grand CordonIn 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