The Khedive's Sudan Medal was a campaign medal awarded by the Khedivate of Egypt for service in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Established in 1911 by the Khedive, this medal replaced the earlier Khedive's Sudan Medal (1897) and was superseded by the Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal (1933).

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.

While no complete British Army unit took part in any qualifying campaign, a 48 strong British Army Maxim Gun detachment drawn from a number of different regiments received the Durfur 1916 clasp, while the medal without clasp was awarded to a camel corps company manned by the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in reserve during this campaign.M.D. Cassell. The British Maxim Detachment in Darfur, 1916. Orders & Medals Research Society Journal, Vol 26 No 3, pages 166–171, Autumn 1987. A number of members of the Royal Flying Corps received the medal with the Durfur 1916 and Fasher clasps, while about thirty members of the Royal Air Force received the Garjak Nuer clasp.

Appearance The medal is circular, 39 millimetres in diameter, and made of silver or bronze. 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.Captain H. Taprell Dorling. Ribbons and Medals. Page 141-142. A.H.Baldwin & Sons, London. 1956.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.

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

Atwot Southern Kerdofan 1910 Sudan 1912 Mandal Miri Zeraf 1913-1914 Mongalla 1915-1916 Durfur 1916 Fasher Lau-Nuer Nyima 1917-1918 Atwot 1918 Aliab Dinka Garjak Nuer Nyala Darpur 1921

References

External links Medal roll held by The National Archives Online Medals: Medal Encyclopaedia. Khedive’s Sudan Medal 1910