1841 Afghanistan

[Yasmina4]

I have just read an amazing account about "John Campbell" 1862.  Plus the remark by an ex British Ambassador  Ewans account, in a history of Afghanistan by former British diplomat Sir Martin Ewans, contends that in the 1920s two elderly women in Kabul were introduced to British diplomats. Astoundingly, they had been on the retreat as babies. Their British parents had apparently been killed, but they had been rescued and brought up by Afghan families.

John Campbell was rescued as an infant and brought up by a tribal chief. He eventually made his way to India as a young man and thence to England. He did not know his real name.

Apparantly there are a number of families in Afghanistan who are said to be decended  from the many British orphaned infants lost in the retreat

No names to play with.  It would be so interesing to find their relatives.

Sandra