La Tartaruga

Pages     37

With illustrations by the author

Original decorated cloth gilt slightly faded and darkened

H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Box 338 La TartarugaH F Prevost Battersby Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Richard Corfield (Richard Conyngham Corfield, 18821913) was a British colonial police officer who was killed in action in Somaliland in 1913. Corfield commanded the Somaliland Camel Constabulary and died at the Battle of Dul Madoba while engaging Dervish forces led by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (the "Mad Mullah"), a controversial action that went against his orders to avoid direct