Battle of Dul Madoba

The Battle of Dul Madoba was an engagement between British forces and the Dervish movement on 4 August 1913.

On 8 August 1913, fleeing Dhulbahante tribesmen sought refuge with Corfield who was stationed at Ber with the Somaliland Camel Constabulary.

On one side 110 members of the SSC from British Somaliland and 300 British-allied Dhulbahante tribesmen all under the command of Colonel Richard Corfield faced some 2,750 well-armed Dervish followers of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, nicknamed by the British as the Mad Mullah.

Summers, who was badly wounded, and Cecil de Sivrac Dunn rallied the surviving Constabulary and formed a protective cover from the bodies of the dead camels.

Dervish attacks, which consisted of forward rushes, continued in endless succession, and hand-to-hand fighting ensued.