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
Dundas
First Names
James
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineers (Bengal Sappers and Miners)
Medal Rolls
MR2
Died / Killed / KIA
23 Dec 1879
Source abbrevs
SH125 / SH190 / SB72 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / F101
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Gregson Through the Khyber Pass / Parry / IOL&R N/1/173 / biog Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / photo Shadbolt / photo in REI / Scott Moncrieff Canals Campaigns
Original Text from book
Dundas, Capt. James, V.C., R.E. (Bengal Sappers and Miners) MR2, k. Kabul 23 Dec. 1879, SH125, SH190, SB72, k. Kabul 23 Dec. 1879 by premature explosion of mine, Gregson, Through the Khyber Pass, p. 68, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658, Parry, p. 312, F101, IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kabul/Sherpur, memorial stone not extant, but ident. to that of Charles Nugent, q.v., orig. buried alongside); biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris, The Victoria Cross, p. 85; photo Shadbolt, pl. VI; photo of grave in Kabul/Sherpur cemetery, in REI album 779, class no. 18, acc. no. 7751, album group 6/44, p. 1, RVC, p. 96, no. 356; account of burial in Scott Moncrieff, Canals & Campaigns, p. 85 (Ed.)
Transcriber remarks
[VC] Victoria Cross / [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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