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
Maclean
First Names
John George
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
14th (The Ferozepore) Regt Bengal NI
Medal Rolls
MR8
Sick / Wounded
21 Nov 1878
Died / Killed / KIA
1878
Source abbrevs
SH272 /HAAL 79 / HAAL 80 / F103 / HAAL80
Original Text from book
Maclean, Capt. John George, General List, Bengal Infantry, 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal N.I., SH272, "Cashiered by sentence G.M.C. [General Court Martial] 1 March 1879," MR8, "Cashiered 28th March 1879," MR8, HAAL:79 [Index: cit. to p. 450 incorrect; see p. 658] (deceased) HAAL:80, p. 656 "Cashiered" F103, severely w. Ali Musjid 21 Nov. 1878 [Since he apparently died of w. before the end of 1878 (HAAL:79) his dismissal appears to have been posthumous (Ed.)]
Transcriber remarks
[NI] Native Infantry / [w] wounded, died. 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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