Mayor of Sydney Silver Soudan Medal : Private T Gunning, New South Wales Infantry

Mayor of Sydney's Silver Soudan Medal. The obverse shows the coat of arms for Sydney. Above it, on a solid semi-circular suspender pierced to take a ribbon, is the word 'SOUDAN'. The reverse bears raised lettering around the edge 'PRESENTED BY THE CITIZENS OF SYDNEY. T.PLAYFAIR, MAYOR, 1885.', and in the centre a raised laurel wreath. The centre of the wreath is engraved '? T. GUNNING ?'

Awarded to 493 Private Thomas Gunning, who served with the New South Wales Infantry Contingent to the Sudan in 1885. He subsequently served as a private in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles during the Boer War. Gunning was awarded a silver medal of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of NSW for saving life at Manly, NSW, on 18 January 1909. He was also an Alderman and prominent citizen of Manly. In 1947 he gave a hundred pounds towards the erection of a memorial to the men of the Sudan Contingent on the east side of Circular Quay, Sydney, which was dedicated in 1952. Gunning had died in 1949.