Order of the Medjidie was a military and civilian order of the Ottoman Empire. The order was instituted in 1851 by Sultan Abdulmejid I.
Arms of the Order of the Medjidie
Order of the Medjidie awarded to Major Rodolph De Salis (1811-1880) of the 8th Hussars
Distribution of the Medjidie, after the Battle of Cetate (1854)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his as
Order of the Medjidie
…Charles Doughty-Wylie, English army officer who was later killed in the Gallipoli campaign, ironically in action against Ottoman forces. Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author Richard England, British soldier…
Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893
Professor Challenger by Harry Rountree in the novella The Poison Belt published in The Strand Magazine
Portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904
Sherlock Holmes statue in Edinburgh, erected opposite the birthplace of Doyle, which was demolished c. 1970