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
MacGregor
First Names
Charles Metcalfe
Rank
Maj Bt col and local Brig Gen Sir
Regiment / Department
Bengal Staff Corps
Medal Rolls
MR8 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH136 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Robson, Road to Kabul / photo NAM / Burke / MacGregor War in Afghanistan / the Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor / The Life and Opinions of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor / History of the MacGregor Memorial Medals 1889-1989
Original Text from book
MacGregor, Maj., Bt. Col. and local Brig. Gen. Sir Charles Metcalfe (1840 1887) B.S.C., Chief of the Staff to Maj. Gen. Sir F.S. Roberts at Kabul; Chief of the Staff to Lt.-Gen. Sir D.M. Stewart at Kabul (May-July 1880); Brig. Gen. Commanding 3rd Bde. Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880 and at Kandahar, and during Marri Campaign, Baluchistan, (Sept. Nov. 1880) MR8 (2 refs.) SH136, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14; mil. service Robson, Road to Kabul, p. 285; photo NAM (neg. 6173 & 6378) Burke 216, (neg. 6175) Burke 73, (neg. 6180) Burke 164 1/2, (neg. 6181) Burke 161 1/2, (neg. 6225) Burke 231, (neg. 23927) Burke 217, NAM 6510 212, p. 3, Burke 161, MacGregor, War in Afghanistan, frontispiece, Burke 231 (detail) p. 123 (from ILN 20 Sept. 1879, p. 265) p. 143 (from The Graphic 15 May 1880, pp. 500 501 [unident.]) p. 162, Burke 231, p. 164, Burke 161 1/2, Robson, Road to Kabul, 12th p. pls. fol. p. 156, Burke 161 1/2; author and ed. of many bizarre works, incl. Diary of the 3rd Afghan War (unpub., but contemporary typeset copies [in format of an official govt. Publication] in the New York Public Library, the Royal Society of Asian Affairs (London), and the University of Minnesota); War in Afghanistan: the Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, ed. by William Trousdale, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985; biog. by Lady [Charlotte] MacGregor, ed., The Life and Opinions of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., Quartermaster General in India, 2 vols., Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888, with full bibliography of pubs.; Major Robert Hamond, History of the MacGregor Memorial Medals 1889-1989, New Delhi: Lancer International, Lancer Paperbacks, 1994
Transcriber remarks
[KCB] Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath / [CSI] Companion Order of the Star of India / [CIE] Companion Order of the Indian Empire
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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