Italian African Campaign Medal 1887-96

Italian African Campaign Medal 1887-96 with three bars 'CAMPAGNA D'AFRICA 1887-88', 'HALAT 1891' and 'SEROBETI 1892'. Unnamed as issued. Obverse: The crowned bust of Umberto I facing right. Reverse: The inscription 'CAMPAGNE D'AFRICA' within a laurel wreath. The medal is fitted with a fixed bar loop suspender and a piece of 30 mm red ribbon that has a 2 mm blue stripe near each edge. The three rectangular campaign/battle bars slide over the ribbon.

Awarded for the various Italian campaigns and battles to colonise part of North Africa in the late nineteenth century. 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.