Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Auction Archive A Blood and Soil Farmer’s

A Blood and Soil Farmer’s Union Headquarters of the Kurmark region award “Für treue Mitarbeit”

for operations in El Alamein

With his promotion to Captain in 1911

5mm (w) x 40

his mother had predeceased him and therefore

Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Auction Archive A Blood and Soil Farmer’sIn 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 merchant vessels to attempt to ram