United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now 1918 / PTE

1918 / PTE

and in preparation for the invasion of France

he returned briefly to England

Gustav Spitzer KG

before being re-interred in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now 1918 / PTEConstructed of magnetic iron, 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