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
Mercer
First Names
Charles Archibald
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
4th Goorkha Regt
Medal Rolls
MR9 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH297 HAAL79 HAAL80 HAAL81 HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / Burke / MS diary NAM acc
Original Text from book
Mercer, Capt. Charles Archibald, B.S.C., 4th Goorkha Regt., MR9, SH297, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14; photo NAM (neg. 6184) Burke 185, (neg. 6203) Burke 297, (neg. 45287), (neg. 45288); MS diary NAM acc. no. 6903/15
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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