In March 1920, a further force under Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Darwall, D.S.O., Royal Marines, composed of Mounted Infantry, Cavalry and Sudanese Infantry, established itself at Pap and gradually cleared the country.
Nyala (26 September 1921-20 January 1922) 17 clasps awarded to British officers.
Early in September 1921 a Fiki by the name of Abdullahi el Suheina declared himself to be the Prophet Isa and thereby succeeded in attracting to himself a considerable following of Masalat, Baggara, and Fellata tribesmen in Southern Darfur. These he organised under various leaders, and it was soon apparent that he proposed to attack District headquarters at Nyala in which were stationed at the time the District Commissioner Mr Tennant McNeill, the civil administration staff, and 37 police.
On 23 September, 64 Mounted Infantry of the Western Arab Corps were despatched from El Fasher to Nyala, under the command of El Youzbashi Bilal Effendi Rizq. They made a rapid forced march and reached Nyala on the 25th. In the meantime an appeal for additional assistance had reached Fasher and a second force of 52 men with two machine-guns left to reinforce the garrison. Captain H. Chown, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, also left Fasher for Nyala and reached there on the 26th, a few hours before the Fiki and his followers attacked. In the meantime District Headquarters had been hurriedly placed in a state of defence. There were available on the morning of the 20th, 64 Mounted Infantry, 40 Police and a party of friendlies. These were divided between District Headquarters and the market area.
At about 8.30 p.m. on the 26th, the Fiki’s followers, estimated at 5,000, attacked. The defenders in the fort were forced back fighting gallantly but overrun. McNeil and Chown were killed. Billal Effendi Rizq and Mulazim Awal Hassan Effendi Mohammed Zein, the District Officer, realising that resistance inside the District Headquarters was useless, retired and picked up the men who were holding the market area. They then made their way back to District Headquarters, and taking the enemy in the rear, drove them out in great confusion. The Fiki himself was killed. The garrison prepared itself for a further attack but this did not materialise as the enemy had dispersed.
Darfur 1921 (26 September 1921-20 November 1922)
It is believed that seven clasps were awarded to British officers, and two to members of the Sudan Political Service. The clasp was awarded to those who were ineligible for the Nyala clasp and who served at, or west of, Kerenik.
Matters were not permitted to end with the defeat of the enemy at Nyala. There were still an estimated 6,000 Fellati and Messalati tribesmen at large who had given their allegiance to the Fiki Abdullahi and were still intending to resist any retribution sent by the government. To add further to the problem, they were now armed with a number of rifles taken from casualties at the Nyala fight.
A mounted patrol under command of El Miralai S. T. Grigg was despatched to the Nyala district to exact punishment. El Bimbashi G. F. Foley of the Western Arab Corps Artillery was to remain at Nyala under the command of Grigg.
THE AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1902-56 East Africa 1915 (4 February-28 May 1915)
Two clasps awarded to British officers of the Egyptian Army.
With the embodiment of the Sudan Defence Force in 1925, ‘Darfur 1921’ was the last clasp to be issued for the Khedives Sudan 1910 Medal, and the last Medal to be issued to British military personnel for service in the Sudan, although they could still be awarded the Order of the Nile when appropriate.
Sudanese Regiments of the Egyptian Army were only used outside of the Sudan on two occasions, both of them against the Turkhana tribes on the Uganda and British East Africa borders. At the request of the Governor of Uganda, a company and a half of the IXth Sudanese were sent to Madial, Morongole and Kitgum to protect the northern frontier of Uganda from raiding Dodinga tribesmen. These troops left Mongalla on 21 September 1914. A detachment consisting of two British officers, Bimbashi (Major) D. A. Fairbairn and H. F. C. Hobbs, both of the West Riding Regiment, along with two Egyptian officers, Yuzbashi (Captain) Sherif and Mulazim Awal (Lieutenant) Hafez, with 67 N.C.O.’s and men. They assisted in military operations against the Turkhana raiders commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. S. Edwards, D.S.O., of the Kings African Rifles, undertaken along the shores of Lake Rudolf during April and May 1915. The Uganda force consisted of 491 officers and men, including the elements of the IXth Sudanese Infantry under the command of Fairbairn. As is often the case in this type of operation, a great deal of trekking, but little actual fighting was done.
At the conclusion of the Turkhana operations, one company of the IXth Sudanese under Bimbashi Hobbs was left as a garrison at Madial, with Bimbashi Fairbairn and the remaining troops returned to the Sudan. The valuable services performed by this Sudanese detachment was cordially acknowledged by the Government of Uganda.
East Africa 1918 (20 April-19 July 1918) Seven clasps awarded to British officers of the Egyptian Army.
An altogether far more active campaign against the Turkhana than that undertaken in 1915. There was heavy fighting. The campaign was under the command of Major R. F. White, Essex Regiment. Some 1,130 took part of which 513 were from the Equatorial Battalion of the Egyptian Army.
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