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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 8, 21 June 1873, Page 11

The death is announced of Surgeon William Brydon, C.8., of the Bengal Medical Service. Surgeon Brydon was a very remurkablo man in his way, being the one Euro^aau of the 13 000 soldiers arid oi.tip followers, composing the army of General Elphinstone, who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible retreat from Cabul in 1812. Only two natives escaped. Three men saved o<t of thirteen thousand, and all the rest massacred, starved, or lost! It may b<y worth while, perhaps, at a conjuncture like the present, when Central Asia politics are once more debated, to revive the memory of thai Afghan war and the dreadful retreat from Cabul.