Haji Yusuf Barre

Haji Yusuf Barre was the commander at the battle of Jidbali, the largest and deadliest engagement between the dervishes and the British empire in the Horn of Africa.

His two leaders of foot and horse were killed, also four men of note[1]The report further states that the Sayid himself was at Xudun (Hudin): Orders were to hold Jidballi to the last.

During the aftermath of a British Royal Air Force bombardment of Taleh, Aw Ibraahiim was asked by the Sayyid, the leader of the Darawiish, to advise on movement.

He disagreed with suggestions that the Darwiish remnants should go to Abyssinia (now-Ethiopians), Italians, and people of Harar, but agreed with the haroun that they follow the tributary of the Shebelle River westwards, in modern-day Ethiopia.

A couple of months later, in December 1920, Abshir Dhoore hosted a meeting of 4 of the most senior Darawiish leaders, which included Aw Ibraahiim.

[4] During the withdrawal from Taleh, the capital of the Darawiish, the Sayyid along with Aw Abdille Ibraahiim and Cismaan Boos entered the southern rural parts of Beretabli, in an area called Dodhais.

As such, Cismaan Boos and Aw Cabdille Ibraahiim were the last two men to have accompanied the Sayyid prior to his flight from the Darawiish homeland.

It was most fortunate that Tale was so easily captured Native Somali sources have reported how Mohamud Xoosh Cigaal, often anglicised as Mohamud Hosh, was the last adult resident of Taleh fort, as such the last castellan of Silsilad:[9] Rag Soomaali ah oo ciidanka Ingiriiska ka socday waxay yiraahdeen, Sayidku markuu baxay waa arkayney, hase ahaatee in uu gaalada gacanteeda galo ma aannu doonayn.

[12] A report from the University of Michigan states that in the early 1970s Maxamuud Xoosh Cigaal, which is latinized as Mohamud Hosh in English sources, was being interviewed whilst in his old age by a Somali research commission who sought to study British tactics vis-a-vis native African rebels towards colonialism.

Due to his immediate arrest, Jaamac Biixi Kidin is also the first Somali child prisoner in history:[14] Many rifles but not much else was found in the fort, with the exception of one very small boy who had somehow been left behind ...

I later handed him over to my colour sergeant Jama Hersi, as our only prisonerA news report by Golkhaatumo journalist Asad Cadaani confirms that Jaamac Biixi Kidin was the last known Darawiish person to be extant at the fort, although only 6 years old.