IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141535
accession number:	CM.1441-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The political disintegration of the Ottoman Egyptian state during the 1880s, as it came under heavy British and French influence, permitted a rebellion in the name of the self-proclaimed Mahdi Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad ibn al-Sayyid 'Abd Allah to effect the removal of the Sudan from Egyptian control. Lengthy campaigns by British forces to recover control of the area led firstly to Gordon's famous defeat at Khartoum and ultimately, in 1890, to a full British withdrawal from the province.
In 1896, however, British and Egyptian forces combined in a campaign of reconquest, which in a series of engagements between then and 1899 eventually laid the area back under Egyptian, and therefore British, control. In 1899 Queen Victoria agreed the issue of the Queen's Sudan Medal for service in any of the first six battles of these campaigns.
This medal was awarded to Private G. Palmer of the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.
title:	Queen's Sudan Medal, 1896-97

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141535





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1899 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1899
creation date latest:	1899

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Saulles, George W. de
maker: Victoria regina et imperatrix

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 36.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 35.13



CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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