51480: Lusitania

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posted on 2024-05-02, 17:41 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

<p dir="ltr">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.</p>

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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

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems Home Front Landscape Munitions

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0