A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed 1944 by the SS Army

1944  by the SS Army Postal Service with official stamping and printing notes

Among the dead was Private Dyson

Instituted in 1918

circa late 1800's

A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed 1944 by the SS ArmyWWI RMS Lusitania Propaganda Medal 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