Khedive's Sudan Medal (1910)

The Khedive's Sudan Medal was a

Award criteria

The medal was awarded for minor operations in the Sudan to members of the Egyptian Army, including Sudanese battalions. Recipients included a number of British Army officers seconded to the Egyptian Army. It was issued in silver with clasps to combatants and without a clasp to non-combatants. Camp followers, such as porters and grooms, received the medal in bronze without a clasp.^[1]

While no complete British Army unit took part in any qualifying campaign, a 48 strong British Army

The medal is circular, 39 millimetres in diameter, and made of silver or bronze.[1] The obverse bears the Arabic cypher of the Khedive, and the Hijri year of its establishment. The medal awarded in 1911 bears the cypher of Khedive Abba Hilmi, while that from 1918 shows the cypher of the Sultan Hussain Kamil. The reverse depicts a lion standing on a plinth bearing the word SUDAN with, behind, the sun rising above the flowing River Nile.^[3]
The medal hangs from a straight bar suspension, the 32 millimetre wide watered ribbon being black with thin red and green stripes on each side.
The medal was issued unnamed, except for a few to British recipients that were named in small impressed capitals.^[4]

Clasps

The medal was awarded with sixteen clasps^[5] inscribed in both English and Arabic, the largest number issued with one medal being five. Bronze medals were awarded without a clasp.^[1]

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