Algernon Durand

Algernon George Arnold Durand, CB, CIE (31 March 1854 – 8 October 1923) was a British soldier.

[1] He fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880.

In 1891, as a colonel, he commanded the successful Hunza–Nagar campaign, in which he was wounded.

He wrote an account of the campaign, The Making of a Frontier, published in 1899.

He was the military secretary to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India (1894–1899), whose niece, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Charles Bruce, he married.