Sudan Medal 1896-98. Silver issue ( (2390. Gr. Kaim Din. 5/Bom. Mt. By.)

Medal verification: The medal is confirmed as entitled per the respective campaign medal roll of the 5th (Bombay) Mountain Battery, reference WO 100/82. The medal roll entry for the recipient with remark 'disch'd own request'

The recipient was an Indian soldier of the Muslim faith, who held the rank of 'Gunner' while serving with the 5th (Bombay) Mountain Battery, an artillery unit of the Bombay Presidency Army

Dongola Expedition: In May 1896, the 5th (Bombay) Mountain Battery, were the only Indian 'Mountain Battery' to mobilize and deploy overseas to the Sudan. The 5th formed the artillery component of the Indian Army's 'Suakin Force' under command of Brigadier-General C. C. Egerton, C.B., D.S.O. The Indian force sent to the Sudan comprised: 1st Bombay Lancers; 5th (Bombay) Mountain Battery; 26th Punjab Infantry; 35th Sikhs, together with Indian Sappers drawn from the Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers & Miners and men from the Commissariats. The Indian troops disembarked at the Sudanese Red Sea Port of Suakin, where they were to replace the Egyptian/Sudanese garrison there so the latter could to join the Dongola Expeditionary Force in the preliminary opening moves of the 'Reconquest of the Sudan' 1896-1898

The medal is fitted with a length of original silk riband, This now stitched and pierced with a brass eye / ring for mounting & display

A choice, and scarce seen example of the Sudan Medal to an Indian 'Mountain Gunner'

Condition: About EF

Code: 23622