Sudan Police and Prison Service Meritorious Service Medal, with Second Award Bar, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine, scarce
£250-300

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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The Sudan Police and Prison Service Medals for Meritorious Service was instituted in 1948. This silver medal has the words ‘the Sudan Police and Prison Service Medal’ in classical Arabic on the obverse and the words ‘For Meritorious Service’ on the reverse. The ribbon has a yellow centre with two broad blue edges, separated by two thin white stripes. It can be awarded only to members of the Sudan Prisons Service, including emergency, supernumerary, and special police and warders. The medal has the name, number and Province of the recipient engraved on the rim. About 100 were awarded. These awards were not open to British Police officers of the Police or Prison Service, nor to Ghaffirs, Chiefs of Police, Nazir’s Police or Police belonging to any local Government body unless they were brought under a Police Ordinance. A bar may be awarded for each further act of meritorious service deemed worthy of recognition.