posted on 2024-05-02, 17:41authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
The title relates to the British passenger liner 'Lusitania', sunk by a German torpedo on 7 May 1915 on its homeward voyage from New York. 1.198 people died, including 100 Americans.
History
Identifier
1452.jpg | IRIWM_1_210.jpg
Subject
Home Front | Landscape | Munitions
Creator
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
Date
June - August 1915
Date Created
01/06/1915
Temporal Date
31/08/1915
Spatial
London
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Format
Typescript
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate
Collection ID
IR/I/210
Repository Name
Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents
Repository Address
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK