Four: Corporal T. Dempster, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, one of a handful of R.F.C. recipients of the Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal

1914-15 Star (3185 Cpl., T. Dempster, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.A.F); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, no clasp (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.F.C.) officially impressed, good very fine and better (4) £1200-1500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956.

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59 Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medals were awarded to R.F.C. personnel, 36 of them without clasp and three of them to Corporals.

Dempster enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps as a Rigger (Aero) in January 1915 and entered the Balkan theatre of war in early December of the same year. His confirmed entitlement to the Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal, without clasp, would have stemmed from service around the time of the Darfur operation in 1916, when No. 17 Squadron and other elements of the R.F.C. were deployed in the region with the Western Frontier Force at Rahad. Dempster was re-mustered as Corporal (Tech.) in the newly established Royal Air Force in April 1918.