Egypt Medal

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Egypt Medal
Obverse and reverse of the 1882 medal
Type	Campaign medal
Awarded for	Campaign service
Description	Silver, 36 mm in diameter
Presented by	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eligibility	British and Indian forces.
Campaign(s)	Egypt
Clasps	Alexandria 11 July Tel-El-Kebir Suakin 1884 El-Teb Tamaai El-Teb-Tamaai The Nile 1884–85 Abu Klea Kirbekan Suakin 1885 Tofrek Gemaizah 1888 Toski 1889
Established	17 October 1882
Ribbon bar of the medal
Related	Khedive's Star

The Egypt Medal (1882–1889) was awarded for the military actions involving the British Army and Royal Navy during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and in the Sudan between 1884 and 1889.

Resentment at increasing British and other European involvement in Egypt since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 triggered an Egyptian army mutiny that threatened the authority of the British-backed Khedive of Egypt, Tewfik Pasha. The British military intervention was in response, to protect British interests. Once in Egypt, the British became involved in the conflicts in the Sudan, which Egypt had occupied since the 1820s.^[1]

All recipients of the Egypt Medal were also eligible for one of the four versions of the Khedive's Star.^[2]