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The Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal

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Time Period: Interwar Period
Institution: November 1933
Country: Great Britain

The Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal is a campaign medal instituted in 1933 and awarded for service in minor operations within the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

The medal superseded the Khedive’s Sudan Medal (1910) and was awarded on the recommendation of the Commandant of the Sudan Defence Force (SDF) to locally recruited personnel of the SDF, police and other approved Sudanese who served in minor operations classed by the Governor-General as of sufficient importance to warrant the grant of the medal.

About 9,000 SDF General Service Medals were issued. No further awards were made after 1945, with the medal becoming obsolete with Sudanese independence in 1956.

The Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal Design

The medal is circular, struck in silver and measures 36 millimeters in diameter.

The obverse shows the seal of the Governor-General of Sudan. The reverse bears a stationary group of Sudanese soldiers, with “The Sudan” in Arabic below.

The ribbon has a central stripe of royal blue, edged by two yellow stripes and two black stripes at the edges.

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