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Battle of Gandamak. The Battle of Gandamak on 13 January 1842 was a defeat of British forces by Afghan tribesmen in the 1842 retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone 's army, during which the last survivors of the force—twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers of the 44th East Essex Regiment —were killed. [1]
Last stand of the 44th Foot at Gandamak, painted by William Barnes Wollen. By the fourth day of the retreat Brydon's regiment had virtually ceased to exist though he himself was fortunate enough to have found some food abandoned by Lady Macnaghten—the wife of the British envoy murdered in Kabul. [5]
Thomas Alexander Souter. Thomas Alexander Souter (11 December 1796 – 10 June 1848) was the sole surviving officer of the last stand of the British Army, composed mostly of men from the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot, near Gandamak, Afghanistan, at the close of the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1842. Camp Souter, a former major military base ...
The 1842 retreat from Kabul was the retreat of the British and East India Company forces from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War. [4] An uprising in Kabul forced the then-commander, Major-General William Elphinstone, to fall back to the British garrison at Jalalabad. As the army and its numerous dependants and camp followers began their ...
Soldier of 44th regiment, 1742. The regiment was raised by Colonel James Long as James Long's Regiment of Foot in 1741. [1] The regiment saw active service at the Battle of Prestonpans in September 1745 during the Jacobite rising. [2] Ranked as the 55th Regiment of the Line in 1747, the regiment was renamed the 44th Regiment of Foot in 1751. [1]
First Anglo-Afghan War. Colonel John Shelton (1790/91 – 13 May 1845) was an officer of the British Army who commanded the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot during the First Anglo-Afghan War and was second-in-command to Major General Sir William Elphinstone. He was one of only a small number of British soldiers to survive the disastrous 1842 ...
The Last Stand of the 44th Regiment at Gundamuck, 1842 (1898 – Essex Regiment Association, on loan National Army Museum; The 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers at Omdurman (1899 – Staff College, Camberley) The Victoria Cross (Colesberg, South Africa, 1900) (1901 – Durban Art Museum)
The last stand of the survivors of Her Majesty's 44th Regiment of Foot at Gandamak in Afghanistan in 1842, painted by William Barnes Wollen. A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds. [1] Troops may make a last stand due to a sense of ...