VINTAGE PRE WW1 BRITISH EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA MEDAL & 1899 BAR UGANDA RIFLES

Description

East & Central Africa Medal 1897 – 1899, one campaign clasp ‘UGANDA 1899’, 36 mm wide circular silver medal on claw and ribbon bar suspension; the face with the Jubilee crowned bust of Queen Victoria facing left, circumscribed ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX’ (Victoria Queen and Empress); the reverse with an image of Britannia standing and facing right, holding a trident and palm branch, behind her is a lion and the rising sun. The inscription on the reverse is “EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA”. Correctly slope engraved named to PTE ABDULLAH KHAN, UGANDA RIFLES. Comes with a length of the original ribbon.

Only 81 members of the 1st Uganda Rifles (including their civilian component) were awarded the Uganda 1899 clasp to the Central & East Africa Medal. The clasp being awarded for to members of the forces under Major G. C. Martyr and Colonel J. T. Evatt which advanced down the Nile defeated and captured both Kabarega & Mwanga in the Uganda Protectorate and then continued to Nandi.