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Lumsden of the Guides is a biography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden (1821‒96), co-authored by his younger brother, General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden (1829–1918) and George R. Elsmie (1838‒1909), a judge and writer in British India. Harry Lumsden was a soldier in the army of the British East India Company who was part of the Anglo-Indian force that occupied Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839−42). He subsequently held posts on the North-West Frontier of India and in 1857‒58 undertook a mission to Kandahar ...