Charles John Griffiths

Charles John Griffiths is known for A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi, a memoir-style history published in 1910. The book presents his personal recollections of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and focuses especially on the siege of Delhi, one of the conflict's defining episodes.

The sources available during this search consistently identify him as a late captain in the 61st Regiment. That military background shapes the book's direct, eyewitness feel: it is less a distant history than a soldier's account of campaign life, danger, and endurance.

Very little reliable biographical information beyond his service and authorship was easy to confirm from the sources found here. What does come through clearly is why the book has lasted: readers interested in military history and the history of British India still turn to Griffiths for a close-up view of events he said he lived through.