Queen's Sudan Medal : Private J Gorton, 2 Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers

Queen's Sudan Medal. The recipient's number, rank, name and regiment are engraved on the edge. Obverse: Half length figure of Queen Victoria wearing a small crown and a veil, holding a sceptre in her right hand, with the legend, 'VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX' around the top circumference. Reverse: A figure of Victory, who is seated, holding a palm branch in her right hand and a laurel wreath in her left. At her feet is the word 'SUDAN' on a plaque supported by three lilies. Behind her and on either side are the British and Egyptian flags. The medal is fitted with a straight bar swivelling suspender and a piece of 32 mm wide ribbon that is half yellow, half black with a thin dividing red stripe.

Awarded to Private J Gorton of the Second Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers for service during the reconquest of the Sudan and the Battle at Omdurman, which took place on 2 September 1898. This medal is part of a collection assembled by the late Hon. Sir Thomas Hughes, Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. It was presented to the Memorial in memory of his son, Captain Roger Forrest Hughes, Australian Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds in France on 11 December 1916, and of his grandson, Flying Officer Peter Roger Forrest Hughes, 12 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, who was killed on active service while flying in the Northern Territory on 3 October 1942.