VINTAGE RARE BRITISH EGYPTIAN ARMY KHEDIVE’S SUDAN MEDAL WITH 9 CAMPAIGN BARS

SOLD Original Khedive‘s Sudan Medal 1896-1908 with 9 campaign clasps. 39mm wide circular silver medal on swivel ribbon bar with original ‘NYAM NYAM’, ‘SUDAN 1899’, ‘GEDAREF’, ‘KHARTOUM’, ‘THE ATBARA’, ‘ABU HAMED’, ‘SUDAN 1897’, ‘HAFIR’ & ‘FIRKET’ clasps; the face with the elaborate tughra of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, dated ‘۱۳۱۴’ (AH1314 = AD1897) below; the reverse with a trophy of arms, inscribed in Arabic characters below and again dated ‘۱۳۱۴’. The medal is named to an Egyptian soldier in the correct impressed fashion. This is the only 9 bar medal I have ever come across and would be an amazing central display piece in your colonial medal collection. The Khedive’s Sudan Medal was a campaign medal awarded by the Khedivate of Egypt for service during the Mahdist War in Sudan. Established 12 February 1897, by Khedive Abbas Hilmi Pasha, this medal was initially to commemorate the reconquest of the Dongola province in 1896. It was subsequently authorised for later campaigns and action up until 1908. The medal was awarded with fifteen different clasps.