20 March 1873(1873-03-20) (aged 61) near Nigg, Highland, Scotland
Buried
Rosemarkie churchyard
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Rank
Assistant surgeon
Unit
Bengal Army
Battles/wars
First Anglo-Afghan War
Second Anglo-Burmese War
Indian mutiny
Awards
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Alma mater
University College London
University of Edinburgh
Relations
Major General Donald Macintyre (brother-in-law)
William BrydonCB (10 October 1811 – 20 March 1873) was a British doctor who was assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, famous for reportedly being the only member of an army of 4,500 men, plus 12,000 accompanying civilians, to reach safety in Jalalabad at the end of the 1842 retreat from Kabul.
WilliamBrydon CB (10 October 1811 – 20 March 1873) was a British doctor who was assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First...
column commanded by Elphinstone, only one European (Assistant Surgeon WilliamBrydon) and a few Indian sepoys reached Jalalabad. Over one hundred British...
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oil-on-canvas painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. It depicts WilliamBrydon, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army, arriving at the gates of Jalalabad...
British nurse Paul Brydon (born 1951), New Zealand road and track cyclist Rob Brydon (born 1965), Welsh actor and comedian WilliamBrydon (1811–1873), assistant...
at the Gandamak pass before the only survivor, the assistant surgeon WilliamBrydon, reached the besieged garrison at Jalalabad on 13 January 1842. Wazir...
captive by the Ghilji force, leaving only one British survivor, surgeon WilliamBrydon, to reach Jalalabad at the end of the retreat on 13 January. This battle...
pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history WilliamBrydon , the only person to reach safety in the 1842 retreat from Kabul James...
British officers escaped on horseback but only one, the wounded Dr WilliamBrydon riding on a wounded horse, made it to Jalalabad. Over one hundred of...
told of the massacre of the British army in Afghanistan. She meets WilliamBrydon, the only person on the march who arrived safely in Jalalabad. (The...
(1838–42) was one of Britain's most ill-advised and disastrous wars. WilliamBrydon was the sole survivor of the invading British army of 16,500 soldiers...
off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. 1842 – Dr. WilliamBrydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during...
seen in Remnants of an Army which showed WilliamBrydon struggling into Jalalabad on a dying horse. Dr. Brydon was the sole survivor of the 1842 retreat...
and 12,000 camp followers were killed. Of the British only one, Dr. WilliamBrydon, reached Jalalabad, while a few others were captured. Afghan forces...
Oldhamstocks, East Lothian the son of Ina Nicholson and her husband, WilliamBrydon Geddes. His early education was at Dunbar Grammar School. He studied...
debt, before being found by Interpol. "Remnants of an Army" is about WilliamBrydon, the only European survivor of the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army on...
General Donald Macintyre VC, while her elder sister married Doctor WilliamBrydon, the sole survivor of the 1842 retreat from Kabul. Travers' medals are...
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