Orders, Decorations and Medals

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 8 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1897, Abu Hamed, The Atbara, Khartoum, Gedaref, Sudan 1899, edge numbered in Arabic (684-10) a few clasps with some unofficial rivets/connections, some edge bruising, very fine £280-320

The medal with officially engraved naming in Arabic script to a native soldier, recipient No 684 of the 10th Sudanese Infantry.

The recipient of this medal is positively identified as having been in 1889, No 684 Nafar (Private) Said Abdel Raouf, who served with the 10th Battalion Sudanese Infantry of the Egyptian Army circa 1885-1899.

Medal rolls for the Sudanese Infantry battalions that qualified for the Khedives Sudan Medal and British Sudan Medal 1896-1898 are not extant at The National Archives in the United Kingdom. However, the medal rolls for the Egyptian Army for the earlier Sudan Campaigns in period 1885-1889, are extant and a cross reference of the respective medal roll for the campaigns of 1885-1889 to the 10th Soudanese Battalion (reference WO 100/72) confirms that the recipient No 684 Nafar (Private) Said Abdel Raouf, had earlier qualified and been entitled to the British Egypt Medal with 2 x clasps for 'Gemaizah 1888' and 'Toski 1889'. With copied notes.