ABC 081 — Group Picture of ABC Officers at Tirpul
Group picture of the ABC officers on the lush banks of the Hari Rud River. The identification of some of the officers became possible thanks to the help of Mr Jeffery Bates, who owns an album of photographs of the Yate family.
Seated, from left to right:
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. Lieutenant Arthur Campbell Yate
4. Dr. Richard Havelock Charles (?)
5. unknown
6. Sergeant R. E. Galindo (?)
Standing, from left to right:
7. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, Commissioner
8. unknown
9. Captain Charles Edward Yate
10. Major Edward Law Durand, Assistant Commissioner
11. Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. Charles William Owen (?)
12. unknown
13. Captain Albert F. De Laessoe (?)
14. unknown
15. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. Stewart (?)
[List:] 81. Group of A.B.C. near Tirpúl on the Hari Rúd.
- Owen, Charles (1884-86): Transcript of diary and letters, p. 195: “May 13 [1885] […] We were photographed in afternoon by Griesbach. […]”
- The Graphic, Vol. 32 (1885/2), December 26, p. 698: engraving of the camp near Tirpul on the Hari Rud by Lt. Galindo.
- [Yate, A.C.] (1884): The Afghan Boundary Commission. (Reprinted from the “Pioneer”), Helmingham Hall Archive in Suffolk (T/Hel/13/8/133), pp. 082-83: “[…] Let it be conceded as a point of little or no moment that, as stated some five or six months back by a critic in the public press (it seems not unreasonable to conclude that the critic in question is one of the fairer sex, for men with all their faults do not indulge in invidious comparisons of male personal appearance), «there is not a single fine specimen of the British race in the Commission.» What is of infinitely higher importance, viz., that it is made of good grit, has been satisfactorily demonstrated. […]”
- Adamec , L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, p. 151: Hari Rud; p. 424-425: Tirpul.
- Moran, N.K. (2005): Kipling and Afghanistan, pp. 79-83: description of the hard conditions and the bad mood of the troop at Tirpul.
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