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- 1901 - [1913] (Creation)
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File of material, compiled by Thompson Capper, relating to an incident in British Somaliland in which the neutral British Camel Corps engaged a Dervish party, strictly against orders from the Acting Commissioner, resulting in the death of the Commander, Mr Corfield, 9 Aug 1913, including a map of North-West Somaliland compiled by the Intelligence Div of the War Department on a scale of 1:1,000,000, 1901; two copies of a map of North-West Somaliland compiled by the Topographical Section, General Staff, on a scale of 1:250,000, 1905; a printed pamphlet entitled 'Correspondence relating to affairs in Somaliland', (Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling and Son Ltd, 1913), and annotated by Thompson Capper; notes by Thompson Capper arguing that the situation in which the commander was placed was impossible, due to the political difficulties with which the British Government was faced, [1913].
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