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
Whyte-Melville
First Names
George John
Rank
Maj
Died / Killed / KIA
5 Dec 1879
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
The Graphic
Original Text from book
Whyte-Melville, Maj. George John, k. �in hunting field,� 5 Dec. 1879 [1878 ?]; source: The Graphic, 18 Jan. 1879 (no further data found)
Transcriber remarks
[k] killed. 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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