United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed HARLAND RL

HARLAND RL

Pinkish-white thread

part of the Asiatic Fleet

An Italian African Campaign Medal for the 1895-96 Campaign

illustrating a lion and unicorn flanking a shield inscribed "ESTABLISHED 1881" coat-of-arms above

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed HARLAND RLIn 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