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T. W. E. Holdsworth
A young British officer left behind a vivid first-hand account of the First Anglo-Afghan War, written as letters home during the campaign. His surviving work stands out for its immediacy, detail, and glimpse into military life on the march.
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Campaign of the Indus In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division
by T. W. E. Holdsworth
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to be readily documented about this author beyond his own published work. Sources consistently identify him as Lieutenant T. W. E. Holdsworth, an officer serving with the Bombay Division during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
He is best known for Campaign of the Indus: In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division, a collection of letters written between November 27, 1838, and April 21, 1840. The letters describe the march into Afghanistan and were later published as a historical record rather than a planned literary work.
Because so little confirmed personal information is easily available, Holdsworth is remembered mainly through this eyewitness narrative: the voice of a young officer recording a major 19th-century campaign as it unfolded.