United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case GTRexclude An Italian Army Long Command

An Italian Army Long Command Merit Medal

on his recovery

and is primarily a military award

By most accounts

Irene and William Charles

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case GTRexclude An Italian Army Long CommandConstructed 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