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
Maclaine
First Names
Hector
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
I Battery C Bde Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
1 Sep 1880
Source abbrevs
SH180 / SB131 / F66 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March / The Graphic / photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Maclaine, Lieut. Hector, I/C R.H.A.; E/B R.H.A., SH180, SB131, F66, MR3, murdered at Baba Wali at Ayub Khan's camp 1 Sept. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657 "murdered by order of Ayoob Khan,â 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 strong ropes or something else, his legs and arms were all grazed where the skin had come off." idem., loc. cit., (2 Sept. 1880) "He was buried in the grave yard near the Shikapur [Shikarpur (southern gate of Kandahar)] Gate....", notice The Graphic, 28 Jan. 1882, p. 78; photo Shadbolt, pl. X
Transcriber remarks
[E/B RHA ] E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery / 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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