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
Maclaine
First names
Lieut
Rank
Hector
Orig Text from book
*Maclaine, Lieut. Hector, I/C R.H.A., E/B R.H.A., murdered at Baba Wali at Ayub Khans camp 1 Sept. 1880; Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 20 (1 Sept. 1880) "The body of Lieut. Maclaine ... was found at the door of his tent ... with his head, nearly severed from his body. ...he was wounded in the chest, and had three bayonet wounds, he appeared to me, to have been bound with some strong ropes or something else, his legs and arms were all grazed where the skin had come off." Idem, (2 Sept. 1880) "He was buried in the grave yard near the Shikapur Gate.... [Shikarpur Gate, Kandahar]."
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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