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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Brydon
	First Name(s)	William
	Year of Birth	1811
	Year of Death	1873
	Entry	Born Oct. 9, 1811 : entered the E. I. Co.'s medical service in 1835 : served with Sir H. Fane and Lord Auckland : sent in 1839 with a regiment to the first Afghan war. When the Army retreated from Kabul in Jan. 1842, Brydon was attached to the 6th regt. of Shah Shuja's Hindustani Infantry and, alone, of 13,000 persons, reached Jalalabad alive on January 13, 1842 : he was in the garrison of Jalalabad under Sir R. Sale, and with General Pollock's army to Kabul and back in 1842 : in the mutiny of 1857 he was, by a curious fate, again besieged, being in the Lucknow garrison, and was uninjured throughout the siege : C.B.,1858: retired, 1859, as Surgeon-Major of the Bombay Army : died March 20, 1873.

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