East and Central Africa Medal : Private Zarghoon Shah, 27th Bombay Light Infantry

East and Central Africa Medal with the bar 'UGANDA 1897-98'. 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 circumference. Reverse: The standing figure of Britannia holding a trident in her right hand. In her left hand, which is extended, she holds an olive branch and a scroll. Behind her is a British lion. In the right background is a rising sun, and in the exergue 'EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA'. The medal is fitted with a fixed straight suspender and a single rectangular bar. A piece of 32 mm ribbon of half yellow and half red is attached to the suspender.

Awarded to Private Zarghoon Shah of the 27th Bombay Light Infantry which took part in the military operations in the Uganda Protectorate between 20 July 1897 and 19 March 1898. The regiment received 339 medals with this bar. 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 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.