This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WOC.2ACE/2748 Message Board Post: I presume that the reference to Dr Brydon is the Dr Brydon who was the only survivor of the 20,000 strong British Army led by Lord Elphinstone which was massacred while retreating from Kabul in the 1840s This was one of the most famous incidents in Victorian times and he is the subject of a famous portrait.