The Sudan Defence Force General Service Medal was a campaign medal instituted in 1933 to reward service in minor operations within the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

It was awarded on the recommendation of the Commandant of the Sudan Defence Force (SDF)[1] to locally recruited personnel of the SDF, police and other approved Sudanese who served in minor operations classed by the Governor-General as of sufficient importance to warrant the grant of the medal.

[2] Members of the SDF were also eligible for British World War II campaign medals.

[2] The medal is silver, 36 millimetres (1.4 in) in diameter with a plain, straight bar ribbon suspender.

It has the following design:[2][5]Obverse: The seal of the Governor General of the Sudan, in Arabic script.Reverse: A group of Sudanese soldiers, including two mounted on camels and one on horseback, with 'The Sudan' (in Arabic: السودان) below.Naming: The medal was issued unnamed.Ribbon: 31.7 millimetres (1.25 in) wide, with a central stripe of royal blue flanked by two yellow stripes, with a narrower black stripe at each edge.Clasps: None were awarded.Manufacture: Struck at the Royal Mint in London.