H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Marc Gottschalk sold 22 5 21 Inscribed For Richard Dalby and

Inscribed For Richard Dalby and signed and dated by Margaret Lane on half-title page

Malden in his library

January-March 1989

7 all Copier edition number 8 and initialed by W Paul Ganley

Faded gilt to spine

H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Marc Gottschalk sold 22 5 21 Inscribed For Richard Dalby andH 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