H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Marc Gottschalk sold 22 5 21 Malden in his library

Malden in his library

Weight    600g

A red hardbacked book with dust-jacket

" and "The Thing from the Sea

Faded gilt to spine

H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Marc Gottschalk sold 22 5 21 Malden in his libraryH 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