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.
Surname
Murray
First Names
Archibald Ross
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
13th Regt Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
Medal Rolls
MR8
Died / Killed / KIA
Jun 1879 / 18 Jul 1879
Source abbrevs
SH261 / SB143 / HAAL79 / HAAL80
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Murray, Lieut. Archibald Ross, B.S.C., 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers) MR8, d. June 1879, MR8, d. at Tret, near Murree, 18 July 1879, SH261, SB143, here as 11th (Prince of Wales Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers), d. Tret, Punjab, of cholera 18 July 1879, age 24, HAAL:79, HAAL:80 p. 658; photo Shadbolt, pl. XI
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [d] died. 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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