[Alia]

Trivia contribution to this thread: I have a Lusitania medallion. For a look at what the original text accompanying the medallion read, click the link.

"The obverse text 'KEINE BANN WARE!', around the upper edge, is translated as 'No contraband goods'. The text in five lines in the obverse exergue 'DER GROSS-DAMPFER=LUSITANIA=DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT 5.MAI 1915' is translated as 'The liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine 5 May 1915'."

My great uncle, former Buckingham Palace Guard, and then Canadian Infantry, bequeathed this medallion to me. He was given it by my great grandfather.

In shortform, I don't think this mystery is going to be solved.

[LAforme2008]

I have a couple of those in my collection as well.

They were much later proven to be merely a propaganda tool and all issued by the British government, even the supposed “Goetz” version printed in German.

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Oddly enough, it was in an article about that very medallion that I first heard of the Lusitania.