Dul Madoba

Battle of Dul Madoba (Somali: Dulmadoobe)[1] It is the location of a famous battle in which the Dervishes won a victory against the British, during which Ibraahin Xoorane (English: Ibrahim Hoorane) killed Richard Corfield.[2] A native Somali account of the battle is found in the poem Annagoo Taleex naal.[3]

Battle of Dul Madoba
Part of Dervish Movement

British Painting of The Battle of Dul Madoba
Date4 August 1913
Location
Dul Madoba, British Somaliland
Result Dervish victory
Belligerents
British Empire British Empire Dervish Movement
Commanders and leaders
British Empire Richard Corfield † Mohamed Abdullah Hassan
Strength
116 2750
Casualties and losses

36 Killed

21 wounded		 Unknown

Ibraahin Xoorane and Corfield

Dervish veterans of the Dul Madoba battle have claimed that Ibraahin Xoorane (English: Ibrahim Hoorane) killed Richard Corfield:[2]

The colonial version of events leading to the death of Richard Corfield at the hands of Ibraahin Xoorane (English: Ibrahim Hoorane) is as follows:[4]

Corfield, who throughout had been in the thickest of the fight, made a gallant effort to get the feed block out; and it was then, about 7.15 a.m., that he was shot through the head and died instantly. As a well-known Somali remarked on hearing the news of his death, "Better a thousand Somalis had died than Corfield Sahib : for where shall we find another Corfield?

— Douglas Jardine

Battle
British camel troopers in 1913, between Berbera and Odweyne in British Somaliland.

Five British-friendly tribes were reported looted by Dervishes.[5] This was followed by the Battle of Dul Madoba that took place on 4 August 1913, between 116 men of the Camel Constabulary of British Somaliland, commanded by Colonel Richard Corfield, with the initially accompanying Dhulbahante tribesmen not partaking in the fight,[6] and some 2,750 well-armed Dervish personnel led by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, nicknamed by the British as the Mad Mullah. Thirty-six of the Constabulary including Corfield were killed in action and 21 were wounded. Many of the Dervishes were also killed or wounded.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Buuraha Dulmadoobe (Dulmadoobe Buuraha) Map, Weather and Photos - Somalia: hills - Lat:9.1 and Long:45.8667". www.getamap.net. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. Xasan, Sayid Maxamad Cabdille; Ciise, Jaamac Cumar (2005). Taariikhdii daraawiishta iyo (in Somali). p. 275.
  3. Research in African Literatures. 11 (4): 462. 1980. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Battersby, H. F. Prevost (1914). Richard Corfield of Somaliland. London: Edward Arnold. p. 234. ASIN B000WFUQT8. Retrieved 23 March 2023 – via Google Books.
  5. Glazebrook, MR (1914). Commons Sitting. A Dervish raid with 2,200 man had taken place, and it was reported that five Somali friendly tribes had been looted, and their camels and their stock had been driven off.
  6. Jardine, Douglas, 1923, p. 224, "At the first shot the 300 Dolbahanta tribesmen on the extreme left flank broke and fled"
  7. Irons, Roy (4 November 2013). Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland: Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. p. 156. ISBN 978 1 78346 380 0. Retrieved 23 March 2023 – via Google Books.
  • Bartholet, Jeffrey (12 October 2009). "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Newsweek. pp. 43–47.
  • Jardine, Douglas. The Mad Mullah of Somaliland.
  • Skoulding, F.A. (July 1931). "With 'Z' Unit in Somaliland". RAF Quarterly. 2 (3): 387–396.


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