British Somaliland

British Somaliland (or more fully, British Somaliland Protectorate) was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia, established in 1888.

Between 1888 and 1898, it was administered by India, through an Indian Political Officer at Aden called “The Political Resident for the Somali Coast”, assisted by residents at Zaila, Bulhar and Berbera. Troops from Aden, part of the Indian Army, (Bombay Army) were garrisoned there. It appears that even prior to 1888, the Indian Government had representatives in Somaliland, see Historical books online below.

British Somaliland was then administered by the British Foreign Office until 1905 and afterwards by the Colonial Office. It appears however, that at least some officers from the Indian Army , and to a lesser extent Indian Army soldiers, continued to be posted there.

External links

• British Somaliland Wikipedia
• Somaliland 1884 - 1898: The early British years by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com.
• Somaliland 1901: The First Campaign against the Mad Mullah: May to July 1901 by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com.
• The "Mad Mullah" : The Second British Campaign in Somaliland against the “Mad Mullah” by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com. Includes Indian Army troops.
• Somaliland 1902-1903: The King’s African Rifles in the Third Campaign against the ‘Mad Mullah’ by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com. Includes Indian Army troops. Includes the battle of Gumburu.
• Somaliland 1903-04: The fourth Campaign against the Mad Mullah by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com.
• British Somaliland: March 1915 – October 1919 Minor Operations against the ‘Mad Mullah’ by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com. Includes Indian Army troops.

Somaliland 1920: The Final Campaign against the “Mad Mullah” by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Africa, kaisercross.com. Includes Indian Army troops.

Historical books online

• Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No CLXXXIX New Series: Account of a trip to Mount Eilo on the northern frontier of the Gadafursi country with a sketch map showing the routes by Captain J S King, Assistant Political Resident, Zaila 1886. Zaila (Zeila) is a port city in the northwestern Salal region of Somalia. Pdf download, Digital Repository of GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].
• In Pursuit of the 'Mad Mullah"- Service and Sport in the Somali Protectorate by Captain Malcolm McNeill 1902 Archive.org
• The Mad Mullah Of Somaliland by Douglas Jardine, Secretary to the Administration, Somaliland, I916-21. published 1923 Archive.org
• Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.