NAM.1976-07-30-2

One of three photomechanical prints after drawings by Melton Prior (1845-1910), 1905 (c). This works depicts an incident during the Third Somaliland Expedition on 22 April 1903 near Daratoleh. The rearguard of the Berbera-Bohotle Flying Column was attacked by an enemy force in superior numbers led by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. Captain George Rolland, 1st Bombay Grenadiers, and Captain William Walker, 4th Gurkha Rifles, with four African soldiers, were with a fellow officer when he fell badly wounded and Rolland ran back some 500 yards to get help while the others stayed with the casualty, endeavouring to keep off the enemy. This they succeeded in doing, and when the officer in charge of the column, Brevet Major John Gough, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), arrived they managed to get the wounded man on to a camel. He was, however, hit again and died immediately. Gough, Rolland and Walker all received the VC. Associated with Somaliland (1901-1903).

Daratoleh, Battle of, 1903 (Somaliland 1901-1904)