The UNEF Medal is a United Nations distinction.
The United Nations established a peace force in 1956, which was called the United Nations Emergency Force, usually abbreviated as "UNEF".
There is a UNEF I Medal and an UNEF II Medal. Brazilian, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, India, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslav soldiers formed a UNEF buffer between Egyptian and Israeli troops in the Sinai desert. In the peacekeeping force one Dutch officer was appointed but this Captain J.A. Bor had to be called back to the headquarters in New York at the expense of the Egyptian government. The Netherlands would have been "too partial" in Egyptian eyes.
The UN also saw the withdrawal of British, French and Israeli troops from the Egyptian territory around Alexandria and the Suez Canal.
In June 1967, Egypt asked the UN to withdraw the peacekeeping force.
After the Korea War Medal, the UNEF Medal was the last United Nations Peace Missions Medal with an inscription on the medal ZELF. Since then, the dozens of United Nations peacekeeping medals have each had their own ribbon, but they no longer received an inscription with the code of the peace mission. The medal
The ribbon has a background of sand color. That symbolizes the Sinai desert. The wide band of UN blue and two thin lines in dark blue and green on both sides of the ribbon stand for the Suez Canal and the Nile Valley. One must participate in the mission for ninety days to qualify for the award of this medal.
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