WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Plain edge

Plain edge

18th June 1927'

Reverse Devanagari legend:

and died of wounds on the western front on 9th May 1917

25/08/1916 Lancashire Fusiliers

WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Plain edgeObv. '1914 W HARTLEPOOLS SCARBORO WHITBY'. Rev RHEIMS LOUVAIN AMIENS 1914' around a cross and W These crosses were commercially produced propaganda pieces mimicking the configuration of the German Iron Cross but ironically adorned with the 'battle honours' of 'war atrocities' perpetrated by German forces during the First World War. Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby were bombarded by the German Navy on the 16 December 1914 with over 100 civilians