H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Salman Rushdie Harper & Brothers Publishers

Harper & Brothers Publishers

Richard Marsh - The Crime and the Criminal

Weight      937g

cover art Paul Lowe

with inscription as a gift for someone for christmas in 1951

H F Prevost Battersby - Richard Corfield of Somaliland, Edward Arnold, 1914 Salman Rushdie Harper & Brothers PublishersH 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