The exact district or woreda of Gumburka Cagaare is Bookh also called Boh.

It lies a few miles south of the Somali border, roughly halfway between Qoriley and Sahdheer.

[1] The outskirts or surrounding flatland of the town is called Gumburka Cagaarweyne, with the weyne suffix meaning big or broad in the Somali language.

The British fatalities included nearly 200 British infantry, with all accompanying commissioned officers being killed including general Arthur Plunkett, general Herbert Edward Olivey, colonel Herbert Humphrey, colonel Mckinnon, Lieutenant Gaynor, Captain Johnston Stewart, Lieutenant E.W.

Bell, Lieutenant Francis Wheler, and Captain Herbert Charles Vesey.