letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.2002-02-1326-1
Description
Manuscript letter, 11 Jan 1904. Written by Maj Gen (later FM) Sir Charles Comyn Egerton, KCB, DSO, Commanding the Somaliland Field Force, from camp, Jidballi. Describes the action at Jidballi on 10 Jan and operations against Mahommd bin Abdukkah, the ‘Mad Mullah’. Collection of papers relating to the Somaliland Field Force, 1904.
Events
Jidballi, Battle of, 1904 (Somaliland 1901-1904)