Description
Sudan Defence Force General Medal 1933 silver unnamed as issued,
The medal was established in November 1933 by the Governor-General of the Sudan, it superseding the Khedive’s Sudan Medal (1910). It 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. All qualifying operations were within the Sudan, and included the combatting of Italian forces who encroached into the Southern Sudan from Italian East Africa between June 1940 and November 1941. Members of the SDF were also eligible for British World War II campaign medals. No further awards were made after 1941, with the medal becoming obsolete with Sudanese independence in 1956.
