United Kingdom. A First War British Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal GTRexclude Queen Isabella II issue

Queen Isabella II issue

with recipient’s initials AK scratched on reverse

the other twenty-three in gilt

Patient is nervous and apathetic

inflicting considerable loss on the enemy

United Kingdom. A First War British Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal GTRexclude Queen Isabella II issueConstructed 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, smoke billowing from the vessel's four funnels, inscribed "KEINE BANN WARE!" (NO CONTRABAND GOODS!) above and "DER GROSS DAMPFER LUSITANIA DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT 5. MAY 1915" (THE LINER LUSITANIA SUNK BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE 5 MAY 1915) below, reverse