Headquarters Staff, Kandahar, 1880 (c)

Photograph by Benjamin Simpson (1831-1923), 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1880 (c).

This photograph depicts the headquarters staff of Major-General R Hume CB, the British commander of southern Afghanistan until the final evacuation of the country in April 1881. From the left they are: Captain E H Braddon, DC; Captain W F Nuthall, DAQM; Captain H L Dundas AAG; a Beluchi Orderly; Major-General R Hume CB; Lieutenant-Colonel H A Little, DAG; Dr B Simpson; Lieutenant G R Hume; Dr F W Wright; Major J Jopp, AQMG; Beluchi Orderly.

From an album of 34 photographs.