AUTHOR NOTE: Four following names [after Milbourn Private John (564) 2nd battn 7th (Royal Fusiliers Regt)]., all illegible in the copyflow and microfilm of the original manuscript of this Regt., probably surname initial letters M and N of 7th (Royal Fisiliers) Regt. are missing here; see Annex 3 on missing and questionable names.
Date transcribed
2021-09-30
Transcribed by
Geoff Summers, Don Freer
Comment
Our thanks to William Trousdale, who permitted FIBIS to create this searchable database of the A-Z name index found in his book, The British in Afghanistan, vol I.
Below is a list of the most frequently used abbreviations and acronyms.
McMath, Capt. William Hamilton, 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6, KIA [Maiwand] 27 July 1880, SH224, SB135 KIA Maiwand 27 July 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80 and HAAL:81, p. 657 [= M'Math] F82, KIA Maiwand 27 July 1880; photo Shadbolt, pl. X; SB137, "It is moving to record that Captain McMath's little dog 'Nellie' a pet of the regiment which had followed her master into action, was subsequently found by the burying party lying dead at his side." [A similar tale exists concerning Cavagnari�s � little dog� aimlessly wandering the streets of Kabul after the death of his master in the 3 Sept. 1879 massacre of the British diplomatic party housed in the Residentcy within the Kabul Citadel. Were these tales true, or were they a maudlin expression of grief at this time? {Ed.)]
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] Killed in action. Also listed in Annex 2, MORTALITY. Trousdale The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881.
Systematic Compilation of Officers, Other Ranks, Civil Officials, and Other Individuals Present in Afghanistan during The Second Afghan War. Annotated with references to military service, diaries, memoirs, biographies and photographs.
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