United Kingdom. A Boxed Lusitania Medallion Archive & Prussian Red Cross Medal

& Prussian Red Cross Medal

maker marked with the RZM logo and M1/35 Wachtler & Lange

Plain brass buckle with solid

1939 and signed in blue ink by General Admiral and Navy Group Commander East

United Kingdom. A Boxed Lusitania Medallion Archive & Prussian Red Cross MedalIn blackened 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