Egypt (Khedivate): Khedives Sudan Medal 1896. With clasp 'Khartoum'. Inscribed in Arabic (1866 / 11th)

The medal is has the recipients regimental number and regiment in Arabic numerals inscribed on the edge of the medal, in the Egyptian Army style

The recipient held regimental number 1866 while serving with the 11th Sudanese Infantry, a regiment of the Egyptian Army

Contemporary accounts consider the 11th Sudanese Infantry to have been the finest regiment of the Egyptian Army. The regiment was certainly one of the most battle hardened of the Sudanese regiments of the Khedive's Army. At the Battle of Omdurman (commemorated by the clasp 'Khartoum') on 2 September 1898, the crack XIth was one of the four battalions of the 1st Egyptian Infantry Brigade under command of 'Fighting Mac' (Hector McDonald), and was in the thick of the action during the battle

The XIth Sudanese as a regiment - but not all individual members - qualified for 6 x different campaign clasps to the Khedive's Sudan Medal, the last being for 'Khartoum'. As No. 1866, did not receive any clasp for 'The Atbara' (fought on 8 April 1898) at which battle the XIth incurred an estimated 100 x casualties, or any of the earlier clasps, the recipient would have enlisted in the Egyptian Army sometime in early 1898 and after completion of his basic training would have been deployed on active service in theatre for the 'Reconquest of the Sudan' with the reinforcement draft(s) sent to the 11th Sudanese sometime after 2 April 1898, to make good the losses that unit had incurred at the battle of Atbara, and or from disease.

A scarce seen single clasp named campaign medal to the 11th Sudanese

Condition: GVF

Code: 25461