Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-10-24 | Page 3 | Loses Heavily in Battle

LOSES HEAVILY IN BATTLE British Camel Corps Has Many Killed and Wounded Fighting Savage Dervishes. London. Mr. Richard Conyngham Corfield recently fell a victim of an attack at-tack of the Dervishes in Somaliland. It was against these barbarous men that he had organized the Camel i corps. Although only about thirty years old he had performed valuable valu-able service for his country in some of its most dangerous outposts, not the least being that of the formation of the Camel Constabulary corps of 150 men under three British officers. From 1901 to 1909 he served in South Africa and in Somaliland until 1910, when he went to Northern Nigeria, from which he returned to Somaliland last year to organize the Camel corps. The Dervishes feared it mightily and made their fierce attack with the idea Richard Conylngham Corfield. of utterly destroying it. The engagement engage-ment was so sudden and the fighting, so savage that fifty members of the corps, Including Mr. Corfield, were killed or wounded. The Camel corps, is one of the most picturesque branches of the British service.