A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now French Croix de Guerre 1939

French Croix de Guerre 1939

the 16th Canadian Light Horse

Type I - Brass

extremely fine and rare combination of awards

A First War Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Buy Now French Croix de Guerre 1939WWI 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