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
Macpherson
First Names
Herbert Taylor
Rank
Lt Col Bt Col Brig Gen and local Maj Gen Sir
Regiment / Department
1st Infantry Bde 1st Div PFF
Medal Rolls
MR7 / MR8 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH136 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Robson Road to Kabul / Parry / photo NAM / Burke / REI / MacGregor, War in Afghanistan / biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / RVC
Original Text from book
Macpherson, Lt.-Col., Bt. Col., Brig. Gen., and local Maj. Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor, V.C. (1827 1886) B.S.C., MR7, Staff, 1st Infantry Bde. 1st Div. P.F.F., MR8 2 refs.) SH136; Brig. Gen. Commanding in Peshawar Valley, HAAL:79, Brig. Gen. Commanding at Rawalpindi, HAAL:80; Maj.-Gen. Commanding a Div. of the Bengal Army [at Kabul] HAAL:81; Maj.-Gen. Commanding Allahabad Div. HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14, Brig. Gen. Commanding 1st Bde.; mil. service Robson, Road to Kabul, p. 285, Parry, pp. 336-37; photo NAM (negs. 3377 & 6174) Burke 280, (neg. 6175) Burke 73, (neg. 6181) Burke 161-1/2, NAM 6510 212, p. 3, Burke 161; photo REI class 779 no. 18 acc. no. 7751 album 4/2, p. 31, MacGregor, War in Afghanistan, p. 164, Burke 161-1/2, Robson, Road to Kabul, 12th p. pls. fol. p. 156, Burke 161-1/2, biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris, The Victoria Cross, pp. 40-41, RVC, p. 211, no. 814
Transcriber remarks
[VC] Victoria Cross / [BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier Force or Punjab Field Force
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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