United Kingdom. A Sinking of the Lusitania Medallion in Carton visually-hidden both the obverse and reverse

both the obverse and reverse marked for engraver P

documented in his service records as "several small fragments of shell in the right calf and below the knee joint" at Bilhem and was transferred to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers at the end of the year

a recipient of the Knight’s Cross and the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords

each held in place by dual visible metal rivets

1915 and upon arrival in England

United Kingdom. A Sinking of the Lusitania Medallion in Carton visually-hidden both the obverse and reverseIn magnetic iron, the 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 German