Egyptian medal
TheOrder of the Nile (Kiladat El Nil ) was established in 1915 and was one of theKingdom of Egypt 's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic ofEgypt 's highest state honor.
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt [ edit ] The Order was established in 1915 by SultanHussein Kamel of Egypt for award to persons who had rendered useful service to the country.[ 2] Order of Ismail and was frequently awarded to British officers and officials serving in Egypt, as well as distinguished Egyptian citizens.[ 2]
Grand Cordon: Badge worn from a sash over the right shoulder, with a star on the left chest. Grand Officer: Badge worn around the neck, with a smaller star on the left chest. Commander: Badge worn around the neck. Officer: Badge worn on the left chest from a ribbon bearing arosette . Knight: Badge worn on the left chest from a plain ribbon. After Egypt became a republic in 1953 the Order of the Nile was reconstituted to serve as Egypt's highest state honor.[ 3]
Collar: worn by the president of the Republic and may be granted to otherHeads of State .[ 4] [ 3] Grand Cordon: awarded for exceptional services to the nation.[ 5] Although the five class structure of the original 1915 order was mentioned when the order was restructured in 1953,[ 6] [ 3]
Some appointees to the order [ edit ] [ edit ] BrigadierPeter Acland (4th class), 1936[ 7] SirPratap Singh of Idar (Grand Cordon), 1918 Judge SirMaurice Amos (Grand Cordon) MaharajaJagatjit Singh Bahadur ofKapurthala (Grand Cordon), 1924 MajorHenry Beaumont (4th Class), 1916[ 8] Rear AdmiralRichard Bevan (4th Class), 1919 Field MarshallLord Birdwood Lieutenant GeneralLouis Bols Lieutenant ColonelArthur Borton VC, DSO (3rd Class)[ 9] Howard Carter , British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926[ 10] Jovan Dučić [ 11] MajorAubrey Faulkner Major GeneralHarold Franklyn , CommandantSudan Defence Force , 1939[ 12] MajorHarry Gardner (4th Class), 1922 Lieutenant ColonelAlexander Kearsey (3rd Class) Harold Knox-Shaw , British astronomerLancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale , 1920Naguib Pasha Mahfouz , obstetrician and gynecologist, 1919Lieutenant ColonelCecil L'Estrange Malone Earl Mountbatten of Burma , (fourth class), 1922Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey , 1915General SirWilliam Peyton (2nd Class), 1916 GeneralHussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon) AdmiralFrancis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) Rear AdmiralEric Gascoigne Robinson CaptainGeorge Francis Scott Elliot Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen – Professor of ENTKasr El-Aini Hospital , Cairo. Circa 1920 Major-GeneralSir Charlton Watson Spinks , last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931[ 13] Dr. Oskar Stross, Austrian Consul General Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria, 1917 General SirReginald Wingate , 1915 JudgeYoussef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon) Oswald Longstaff Prowde , English civil engineerLt Colonel William John Ainsworth, CBE DSO Durham Light Infantry (3rd Class 1919),[ 14] [ edit ] KingHussein of Jordan (1955) MarshalJosip Broz Tito , President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1956) Prof.Amintore Fanfani ,Prime Minister and ad-interimMinister of Foreign Affairs of theRepublic of Italy (1959) President Jimmy Carter ,President of the United States (1979)Emperor Akihito of Japan EmperorAmha Selassie of Ethiopia Mohammed Burhanuddin , 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of theDawoodi Bohra (1978)KingBhumibol Adulyadej ofThailand Mohamed ElBaradei , former director general of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)[ 15] Queen Elizabeth II , November 1975Birendra Bir Bikram shah Dev , King of Nepal, 1974Hassaballah El Kafrawy , Egyptian former Minister of Development, Reconstruction, Housing, New Communities, Public Utilities and Land ReclamationPengiran Anak Haji Mohamed Yusof ,prince consort andcheteria of Brunei, 1984[ 16] King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ofSaudi Arabia , 1989Yuri Gagarin ,Soviet cosmonaut Pierre Gemayel , founder of theLebanese Phalange [ 17] Emperor Haile Selassie ofEthiopia King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ofBahrain , 2016KingIdris of Libya (Grand Cordon) Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu ,Turkish academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of theOrganisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)[ 18] Émile Lahoud ,President of Lebanon , 2000Makarios III , former president ofCyprus Nelson Mandela ,President of South Africa Adly Mansour , former Chief Justice of theSupreme Constitutional Court and actingPresident of Egypt following the2013 Egyptian coup d'etat [ 19] King Mohammed VI ofMorocco Muhammad Naguib , FirstPresident of Egypt Nursultan Nazarbayev , President of Kazakhstan[ 20] Antonín Novotný , President ofCzechoslovakia Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said ofOman ,[citation needed 1976Ziaur Rahman , President ofBangladesh Heinrich Rau , East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ofSaudi Arabia , 1954King Norodom Sihanouk ofCambodia William E. Simon ,U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Suharto ,President of Indonesia Field MarshalMohamed Hussein Tantawi , former chairman of theSupreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt , August 2012 Walter Ulbricht ,President of East Germany , 1965George Vasiliou , formerpresident of Cyprus Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub , Professor ofCardiothoracic Surgery ProfessorAhmed Zewail ,Egyptian-American scientist Katerina Sakellaropoulou ,President of Greece , 2020Salva Kiir Mayardit ,President of South Sudan , 2020Haitham bin Tariq ,Sultan of Oman , 2023Narendra Modi ,Prime Minister of India , 2023Mufaddal Saifuddin , 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of theDawoodi Bohras , 2023[ 21] Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (2024)[ 22] King Frederik X , King of Denmark (2024)^ "University of Glasgow. First World War Roll of Honour, Decorations & Awards" . Archived fromthe original on 14 October 2010. Retrieved4 March 2011 .^a b Dorling, H. Taprell (1956).Ribbons and Medals . A. H. 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