Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Hold and Thirty Years Long Service

and Thirty Years Long Service Medal

both measuring 104x148mm

236 medals in total were awarded

This most likely refers to his blindness

Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Hold and Thirty Years Long ServiceIn 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