A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now Julius Gombos von Jakka

Julius Gombos von Jakka

The cufftitle is on green cotton/rayon material

Type I - Brass

the 16th Canadian Light Horse

with backing plate (numbered

A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now Julius Gombos von JakkaWWI 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