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![[The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881]]:
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|'''Volume I'''
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|[[Preface to First Edition]]
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|[[Preface to Second Edition]]
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|[[Organization]]
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|[[British Army Order of Precedence 1861]]
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|[[Indian Army (Bengal)]]
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|[[Indian Army (Madras)]]
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|[[Indian Army (Bombay)]]
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|[[Second Afghan War Medal Rolls]]
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|[[Source Abbreviations]]
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|[[Bibliography]]
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|[[Text Abbreviations]]
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|[[Rank and Service Abbreviations]]
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|[[Ranks Prefaced by Numerical Identification]]
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|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: A-F]
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|'''Volume II'''
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|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O]
|-
|'''Volume III'''
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|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: P-Z]
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|[[Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan]]
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|[[Annex 2: Mortality]]
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|[[Annex 3: Incomplete References]]
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![[The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881]]:
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|'''Volume I'''
|-
|[[Preface to First Edition]]
|-
|[[Preface to Second Edition]]
|-
|[[Organization]]
|-
|[[British Army Order of Precedence 1861]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Bengal)]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Madras)]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Bombay)]]
|-
|[[Second Afghan War Medal Rolls]]
|-
|[[Source Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Bibliography]]
|-
|[[Text Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Rank and Service Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Ranks Prefaced by Numerical Identification]]
|-
|[http://https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: A-F]
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|'''Volume II'''
|-
|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O]
|-
|'''Volume III'''
|-
|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: P-Z]
|-
|[[Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan]]
|-
|[[Annex 2: Mortality]]
|-
|[[Annex 3: Incomplete References]]
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![[The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881]]:
|-
|'''Volume I'''
|-
|[[Preface to First Edition]]
|-
|[[Preface to Second Edition]]
|-
|[[Organization]]
|-
|[[British Army Order of Precedence 1861]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Bengal)]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Madras)]]
|-
|[[Indian Army (Bombay)]]
|-
|[[Second Afghan War Medal Rolls]]
|-
|[[Source Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Bibliography]]
|-
|[[Text Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Rank and Service Abbreviations]]
|-
|[[Ranks Prefaced by Numerical Identification]]
|-
|[http://Thttps://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: A-F]
|-
|'''Volume II'''
|-
|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O]
|-
|'''Volume III'''
|-
|[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1261 The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: P-Z]
|-
|[[Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan]]
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|[[Annex 2: Mortality]]
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|[[Annex 3: Incomplete References]]
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Annex 2: Mortality

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The official returns and casualty lists given in official sources and regimental records are intended to reflect those men who were killed or died in the prosecution of the war, either in action, or from wounds received in action, or other forms of death (murder, drowning, suicide, accidental shooting, wounding, sickness) directly associated with the prosecution of the hostilities. They do not attempt to reflect the full extent of mortality which may be attributed to the war: the more numerous men who fell victim to disease, or those who may have died some considerable time afterward from wounds received in the war, or who may simply have died from exhaustion, heat stroke, or numerous other causes, deaths which in the main may be attributed either directly, or indirectly, to participation in the war.

The present list is, therefore, not a casuality list, but a mortality list, and includes, insofar as possible, all deaths which the existing records intimate may be attributable to service in Afghanistan during the period of the war, and during the period of occupation of Kandahar for some months after the official cessation of hostilities. As an indication of mortality as distinct from casualty, I have accepted the most recent casualty list published by A. Farrington (abbrev. "F," see Bibliography). Those names which appear in Farrington have been preceded by an asterisk. The present mortality list does not include those who received non-mortal wounds (as Farrington does) but only those who died, either from wounds or other causes, during hostilities (ending on 1 September 1880), and for a short time after when the British army regiments occupied Kandahar until April 1881.

No casualty or mortality list can claim to be complete; the existing records are not adequate to produce such a definitive reckoning. Thus it will be noted that some reported in the Medal Rolls as killed in action (KIA) escaped recording by Farrington. Likewise, I have assumed that the Medal Rolls have not in every case recorded men who died from illness, or some other cause, and there are instances, as well, where the Medal Rolls do not record some either KIA, or deceased from other causes. My evidence for this is contained in burial registers which at times list men who do not even appear in the Medal Rolls, and records such as that compiled by Corrie for the 11th (North Devonshire) Regt. which also contains deaths not recorded in the Medal Rolls. In some cases, it is a matter of carelessness in recording the names correctly; the burial registers are especially inadequate in this regard. But the records of the individual regiments were also kept with varying degress of completeness and accuracy. The records of some of the regiments cite suspiciously few deaths; some of those KIA, but none, or hardly any, of those who died from wounds or illness. The 1st Battalion 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment records only one killed (an officer, not in F) and two “deceased” in MR4: Lieut. Joseph Coyle and Capt. Herbert Williams, revealing of its probable disregard for the “other ranks.” This slight mortality record is possible, but highly unlikely. No mention is made of the wounded, twelve of whom were invalided to England, or the 50-60 deaths from cholera. The record in MR4 lists only 717 men, but Shadbolt gives 800 (a suspiciously round figure) in his Historical volume (SH) who crossed the ill-defined border into Afghanistan, many several times. Hence, I presume the actual number of deaths directly attributable to service in the war to be considerably greater than those I have been able to record in the Mortality list. Not a single KIA, wounding or death is recorded in the Medal Roll for the 1st. Battn. 25th (The King’s Borderers) Regt., (over one thousand men recorded in the Medal Roll). This is a virtual impossibility, and indeed, some have been found in other sources and entered here. Whenever it has been possible to cross-reference the sources, this has been noted. But there are clear cases where deaths recorded in the burial registers were not noted in the Medal Rolls. A true and complete mortality list would quite certainly be considerably longer than that given here. It would include those whose deaths some years after the war were the result of wounds received, or illnesses suffered. There is no record of these, but surely they were numerous. An estimation is not possible. For the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt., badly mauled in the Battle of Maiwand, and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., who bore the brunt of casualties in the Sept. 1, 1880 Battle of Kandahar, I have included the “Sick” and those simply identified as being “in Hospital [Kandahar] Citadel” because it cannot be doubted that many of these were either mortally or severely wounded and very likely to have died. F minimized the number of deaths among the 92nd Regt. by including only those who died within three or four days after the Battle of Kandahar. Gen. Roberts wished to show few British soldiers died in his decisive battle at Kandahar, and his wish still seems to support the accounting. While it is likely that some of the Kandahar wounded did survive, it is probable that many of the wounded in Hospital in the Kandahar Citadel died of their wounds wthin a week, or more, and were not recorded among the casualties, as the death registers indicate, even though these registers are themselves are not wholly reliable in their accounts.

The Regiments that lost the most men in battles and skirmishes, or as a result of the war, were the 9th (The King’s Royal) Hussars) Regt., the 10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Hussars Regt., The E/B R.H.A. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 17th (Leicester) Regt. (most through sickness), the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlands) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar), the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar). On those occasions (especially Maiwand) when many troops were killed over a large area, or when bodies could not be soon after retrieved or never found, burial parties placed unidentifiable remains in trenches, and a single memorial stone placed either at the trench or at the nearest regularized cemetery (e,g, Kabul-Sherpur). But in this regard more effort was expended on individual burials and stone memorials of officers than for those of the Other Ranks.

It is not always possible to ascertain with certainty whether a man who died of wounds at Kandahar on, say, 10 Sept. 1880, received those wounds at Maiwand (27 July), the Deh Khwaja sortie (16 Aug.), during the August siege of Kandahar, or at the Battle of Kandahar (1 Sept.). By far the greatest mortality was caused by sickness, particularly the virulent cholera epidemic during the spring and early summer of 1879. No separate list has been compiled of deaths from illness. Naturally, those regiments which served throughout both phases of the war and were engaged in the most costly battles (Basawal, Kabul, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand, Deh Khwaja,.Kandahar) show the greatest number of battle-related deaths. But regiments such as the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., which participated in the first phase of the war only, suffered more severely than most others from the cholera epidemic of spring 1879. The nine suicides have been recorded on the assumption that their cause was related to the psychological stress of the war. It is likely there were more.

References here are abbreviated. Fuller details, including sources for the data, can be found with the main entry, and in the bibliography. When date or place of d. is unrec., it is recorded thus.

'''You can search the '''
[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2568&s_id=1261 British In Afghanistan. Mortality Name Index A-Z] '''in the FIBIS Database.'''

Annex 2: Mortality

2022-11-22T17:30:22Z

Valmay:

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The official returns and casualty lists given in official sources and regimental records are intended to reflect those men who were killed or died in the prosecution of the war, either in action, or from wounds received in action, or other forms of death (murder, drowning, suicide, accidental shooting, wounding, sickness) directly associated with the prosecution of the hostilities. They do not attempt to reflect the full extent of mortality which may be attributed to the war: the more numerous men who fell victim to disease, or those who may have died some considerable time afterward from wounds received in the war, or who may simply have died from exhaustion, heat stroke, or numerous other causes, deaths which in the main may be attributed either directly, or indirectly, to participation in the war.

The present list is, therefore, not a casuality list, but a mortality list, and includes, insofar as possible, all deaths which the existing records intimate may be attributable to service in Afghanistan during the period of the war, and during the period of occupation of Kandahar for some months after the official cessation of hostilities. As an indication of mortality as distinct from casualty, I have accepted the most recent casualty list published by A. Farrington (abbrev. "F," see Bibliography). Those names which appear in Farrington have been preceded by an asterisk. The present mortality list does not include those who received non-mortal wounds (as Farrington does) but only those who died, either from wounds or other causes, during hostilities (ending on 1 September 1880), and for a short time after when the British army regiments occupied Kandahar until April 1881.

No casualty or mortality list can claim to be complete; the existing records are not adequate to produce such a definitive reckoning. Thus it will be noted that some reported in the Medal Rolls as killed in action (KIA) escaped recording by Farrington. Likewise, I have assumed that the Medal Rolls have not in every case recorded men who died from illness, or some other cause, and there are instances, as well, where the Medal Rolls do not record some either KIA, or deceased from other causes. My evidence for this is contained in burial registers which at times list men who do not even appear in the Medal Rolls, and records such as that compiled by Corrie for the 11th (North Devonshire) Regt. which also contains deaths not recorded in the Medal Rolls. In some cases, it is a matter of carelessness in recording the names correctly; the burial registers are especially inadequate in this regard. But the records of the individual regiments were also kept with varying degress of completeness and accuracy. The records of some of the regiments cite suspiciously few deaths; some of those KIA, but none, or hardly any, of those who died from wounds or illness. The 1st Battalion 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment records only one killed (an officer, not in F) and two “deceased” in MR4: Lieut. Joseph Coyle and Capt. Herbert Williams, revealing of its probable disregard for the “other ranks.” This slight mortality record is possible, but highly unlikely. No mention is made of the wounded, twelve of whom were invalided to England, or the 50-60 deaths from cholera. The record in MR4 lists only 717 men, but Shadbolt gives 800 (a suspiciously round figure) in his Historical volume (SH) who crossed the ill-defined border into Afghanistan, many several times. Hence, I presume the actual number of deaths directly attributable to service in the war to be considerably greater than those I have been able to record in the Mortality list. Not a single KIA, wounding or death is recorded in the Medal Roll for the 1st. Battn. 25th (The King’s Borderers) Regt., (over one thousand men recorded in the Medal Roll). This is a virtual impossibility, and indeed, some have been found in other sources and entered here. Whenever it has been possible to cross-reference the sources, this has been noted. But there are clear cases where deaths recorded in the burial registers were not noted in the Medal Rolls. A true and complete mortality list would quite certainly be considerably longer than that given here. It would include those whose deaths some years after the war were the result of wounds received, or illnesses suffered. There is no record of these, but surely they were numerous. An estimation is not possible. For the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt., badly mauled in the Battle of Maiwand, and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., who bore the brunt of casualties in the Sept. 1, 1880 Battle of Kandahar, I have included the “Sick” and those simply identified as being “in Hospital [Kandahar] Citadel” because it cannot be doubted that many of these were either mortally or severely wounded and very likely to have died. F minimized the number of deaths among the 92nd Regt. by including only those who died within three or four days after the Battle of Kandahar. Gen. Roberts wished to show few British soldiers died in his decisive battle at Kandahar, and his wish still seems to support the accounting. While it is likely that some of the Kandahar wounded did survive, it is probable that many of the wounded in Hospital in the Kandahar Citadel died of their wounds wthin a week, or more, and were not recorded among the casualties, as the death registers indicate, even though these registers are themselves are not wholly reliable in their accounts.

The Regiments that lost the most men in battles and skirmishes, or as a result of the war, were the 9th (The King’s Royal) Hussars) Regt., the 10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Hussars Regt., The E/B R.H.A. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 17th (Leicester) Regt. (most through sickness), the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlands) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar), the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar). On those occasions (especially Maiwand) when many troops were killed over a large area, or when bodies could not be soon after retrieved or never found, burial parties placed unidentifiable remains in trenches, and a single memorial stone placed either at the trench or at the nearest regularized cemetery (e,g, Kabul-Sherpur). But in this regard more effort was expended on individual burials and stone memorials of officers than for those of the Other Ranks.

It is not always possible to ascertain with certainty whether a man who died of wounds at Kandahar on, say, 10 Sept. 1880, received those wounds at Maiwand (27 July), the Deh Khwaja sortie (16 Aug.), during the August siege of Kandahar, or at the Battle of Kandahar (1 Sept.). By far the greatest mortality was caused by sickness, particularly the virulent cholera epidemic during the spring and early summer of 1879. No separate list has been compiled of deaths from illness. Naturally, those regiments which served throughout both phases of the war and were engaged in the most costly battles (Basawal, Kabul, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand, Deh Khwaja,.Kandahar) show the greatest number of battle-related deaths. But regiments such as the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., which participated in the first phase of the war only, suffered more severely than most others from the cholera epidemic of spring 1879. The nine suicides have been recorded on the assumption that their cause was related to the psychological stress of the war. It is likely there were more.

References here are abbreviated. Fuller details, including sources for the data, can be found with the main entry, and in the bibliography. When date or place of d. is unrec., it is recorded thus.

'''You can search the
[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2568&s_id=1261 British In Afghanistan. Mortality Name Index A-Z] in the FIBIS Database.'''

Annex 2: Mortality

2022-11-22T17:27:12Z

Valmay:

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The official returns and casualty lists given in official sources and regimental records are intended to reflect those men who were killed or died in the prosecution of the war, either in action, or from wounds received in action, or other forms of death (murder, drowning, suicide, accidental shooting, wounding, sickness) directly associated with the prosecution of the hostilities. They do not attempt to reflect the full extent of mortality which may be attributed to the war: the more numerous men who fell victim to disease, or those who may have died some considerable time afterward from wounds received in the war, or who may simply have died from exhaustion, heat stroke, or numerous other causes, deaths which in the main may be attributed either directly, or indirectly, to participation in the war.

The present list is, therefore, not a casuality list, but a mortality list, and includes, insofar as possible, all deaths which the existing records intimate may be attributable to service in Afghanistan during the period of the war, and during the period of occupation of Kandahar for some months after the official cessation of hostilities. As an indication of mortality as distinct from casualty, I have accepted the most recent casualty list published by A. Farrington (abbrev. "F," see Bibliography). Those names which appear in Farrington have been preceded by an asterisk. The present mortality list does not include those who received non-mortal wounds (as Farrington does) but only those who died, either from wounds or other causes, during hostilities (ending on 1 September 1880), and for a short time after when the British army regiments occupied Kandahar until April 1881.

No casualty or mortality list can claim to be complete; the existing records are not adequate to produce such a definitive reckoning. Thus it will be noted that some reported in the Medal Rolls as killed in action (KIA) escaped recording by Farrington. Likewise, I have assumed that the Medal Rolls have not in every case recorded men who died from illness, or some other cause, and there are instances, as well, where the Medal Rolls do not record some either KIA, or deceased from other causes. My evidence for this is contained in burial registers which at times list men who do not even appear in the Medal Rolls, and records such as that compiled by Corrie for the 11th (North Devonshire) Regt. which also contains deaths not recorded in the Medal Rolls. In some cases, it is a matter of carelessness in recording the names correctly; the burial registers are especially inadequate in this regard. But the records of the individual regiments were also kept with varying degress of completeness and accuracy. The records of some of the regiments cite suspiciously few deaths; some of those KIA, but none, or hardly any, of those who died from wounds or illness. The 1st Battalion 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment records only one killed (an officer, not in F) and two “deceased” in MR4: Lieut. Joseph Coyle and Capt. Herbert Williams, revealing of its probable disregard for the “other ranks.” This slight mortality record is possible, but highly unlikely. No mention is made of the wounded, twelve of whom were invalided to England, or the 50-60 deaths from cholera. The record in MR4 lists only 717 men, but Shadbolt gives 800 (a suspiciously round figure) in his Historical volume (SH) who crossed the ill-defined border into Afghanistan, many several times. Hence, I presume the actual number of deaths directly attributable to service in the war to be considerably greater than those I have been able to record in the Mortality list. Not a single KIA, wounding or death is recorded in the Medal Roll for the 1st. Battn. 25th (The King’s Borderers) Regt., (over one thousand men recorded in the Medal Roll). This is a virtual impossibility, and indeed, some have been found in other sources and entered here. Whenever it has been possible to cross-reference the sources, this has been noted. But there are clear cases where deaths recorded in the burial registers were not noted in the Medal Rolls. A true and complete mortality list would quite certainly be considerably longer than that given here. It would include those whose deaths some years after the war were the result of wounds received, or illnesses suffered. There is no record of these, but surely they were numerous. An estimation is not possible. For the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt., badly mauled in the Battle of Maiwand, and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., who bore the brunt of casualties in the Sept. 1, 1880 Battle of Kandahar, I have included the “Sick” and those simply identified as being “in Hospital [Kandahar] Citadel” because it cannot be doubted that many of these were either mortally or severely wounded and very likely to have died. F minimized the number of deaths among the 92nd Regt. by including only those who died within three or four days after the Battle of Kandahar. Gen. Roberts wished to show few British soldiers died in his decisive battle at Kandahar, and his wish still seems to support the accounting. While it is likely that some of the Kandahar wounded did survive, it is probable that many of the wounded in Hospital in the Kandahar Citadel died of their wounds wthin a week, or more, and were not recorded among the casualties, as the death registers indicate, even though these registers are themselves are not wholly reliable in their accounts.

The Regiments that lost the most men in battles and skirmishes, or as a result of the war, were the 9th (The King’s Royal) Hussars) Regt., the 10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Hussars Regt., The E/B R.H.A. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 17th (Leicester) Regt. (most through sickness), the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlands) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar), the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar). On those occasions (especially Maiwand) when many troops were killed over a large area, or when bodies could not be soon after retrieved or never found, burial parties placed unidentifiable remains in trenches, and a single memorial stone placed either at the trench or at the nearest regularized cemetery (e,g, Kabul-Sherpur). But in this regard more effort was expended on individual burials and stone memorials of officers than for those of the Other Ranks.

It is not always possible to ascertain with certainty whether a man who died of wounds at Kandahar on, say, 10 Sept. 1880, received those wounds at Maiwand (27 July), the Deh Khwaja sortie (16 Aug.), during the August siege of Kandahar, or at the Battle of Kandahar (1 Sept.). By far the greatest mortality was caused by sickness, particularly the virulent cholera epidemic during the spring and early summer of 1879. No separate list has been compiled of deaths from illness. Naturally, those regiments which served throughout both phases of the war and were engaged in the most costly battles (Basawal, Kabul, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand, Deh Khwaja,.Kandahar) show the greatest number of battle-related deaths. But regiments such as the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., which participated in the first phase of the war only, suffered more severely than most others from the cholera epidemic of spring 1879. The nine suicides have been recorded on the assumption that their cause was related to the psychological stress of the war. It is likely there were more.

References here are abbreviated. Fuller details, including sources for the data, can be found with the main entry, and in the bibliography. When date or place of d. is unrec., it is recorded thus.

You can search the mortality list in the FIBIS Database
[https://search.fibis.org/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2568&s_id=1261 British In Afghanistan [Annex 2<nowiki>]</nowiki>. Mortality Name Index A-Z]

Annex 3: Incomplete References

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Page citations (unless cited as vol. and p. in this work) are those of the preconserved original manuscripts. Generally the newer penciled page numbers are not far from the earlier and with sufficient reference data most of the names in this Annex can be located. The newer and original penciled page numbers were not a part of the regimental lists which were kept separately by each regt. and had no page numbers. These were added when all the seprate lists were gathered into three very thick volumes. This gathering is responsible for most of the illegible, or now invisable, names when single regimental lists left little or no margins and thus when gathered into unfortunately thick volumes some names were lost into the guters of the sewn collections. The microfilm skipped p. 112 of MR3, but I was able to see this page on my single brief examination, and the names on this page have been included here. I had less luck in recording p. 8 from MR5 (see below). Some of these “lost” names might be rescued by those fortunate enough to have access to the original manuscripts.

MR1 T ..., .... (___6) 8th (The King’s Royal) Hussars (lost in gutter) [p. 72]

MR3 ..., ..., ... ( one name lost in gutter, following Wallace, J. (2070) I/C R.H.A. [v. 3, p. 560]

MR3 [p. 112] of the microfilm, with names from H/1 R.A., was skipped by the microfilmer; I was able to see this page and the names are included here)

MR3 [p. 114], following James, William Henry (4164) H/1 R.A. are two names lost in gutter; one of the names has regimental no. (7611)

MR3 [p. 130], following Henry Smart (650) D/2 R.A. has two or more names lost in binding)

MR3 [p. 131], following Arthur Goodall (2327) D/2 R.A. has one or more names lost in binding)

MR3 [p. 143], following T. Fawcett (35) 2/9 Foot, one name may be lost in gutter)

MR4 [unknown number of additional names obscurred in gutter below Bombardier William Turner; MR4, p. 164 (preconservation page number; original nos. may be seen on copyflow and microfilm of original manuscript and new page number may be located from the MR4 page containing Bombardier William Turner in MR3 R.A.]

MR4 M..., ..., John (564) 2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt. [4 additional following names cannot be registered on the microfilm, but one or two might be visible to those who have access to the original manuscript. These names follow Private John Millbourn (564) of the 7th Regt.]

MR4 [p. 256] (one name, a Lieut., lost in gutter; following Lieut. Charles Percival Barchardl, 32nd Bde. 2/14 Foot

MR4 M...l, Lance-Sergt. Thomas (....) 32nd Bde. 2nd Batt. 14th Regt. [p. 262] (obscured in gutter)

MR4 ...., ...., .... (one name lost in gutter, following Milton, Corpl. Herbert (4444) 2nd Battn. 14th Regt. [p. 264]

MR4 [p.264] (one name lost in gutter; 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.; following Corpl. Herbert Milton)

MR4 [p. 266] (one or more names lost in gutter; 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.; following Lance-Corpl. Thomas Kelly, of same Bde.))

MR4 [p. 270] (one name lost in gutter, 10 Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.; following Lance-Corpl. George Hazlewood)

MR4 [p. 294] (one name lost in gutter; following Private John Davis (1375) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.)

MR4 [p. 314] (one name [Henry, Private Mun...] lost in gutter, following Private Patrick McGowan (1518) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.)

MR4 [p. 318] (one name [Private Mc..., J...] lost in gutter, following Private Daniel McAllister (1145) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.)

MR4 [p. 322] (one name [M..., Private P..., 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.] lost in gutter, following Private George Monckton (2315) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.)

MR4 [p. 326] (one name lost in gutter, following Private William Pickersgill (1578) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn., 14th Regt.)

MR4 [p. 344] (one name [ Private....,... regt. no. prob. (_100) lost in gutter, following Private James Wormuld (464 ) 10th Bde. 2nd Battn. 14th Regt.)

MR4 (at end of 2nd Battn., 14th Regt., [Vol. I, p. 103 here] there are possibly three names either lost or illegible; they were added to the manuscript, are additions to the Regt., and are not in alphabetical order of the names preceding 2/14)

MR5 (Notation that p. 8 is missing, that is A Co. 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regt., names with surname initial D-S are missing; skipped from p. 7-9, page 8 having both recto and verso, containing ca. 75-78 names)

MR6 [p. 36 verso] (one name cut off bottom of page; probably first or second regt. in the vol.)

MR6 {The following three names following Private Alexander Williamson (571) A Co. 40th Bde. 2nd Battn. 67th Regt.
Lance-Corpl. ..., ... (379) A Co. 40th Bde. 67th Regt.
Private ..., ... (378) A Co. 40th Bde. 2nd Battn. 67th Regt.
Private ..., ... (349) A Co. 40th Bde. 2nd Battn. 67th Regt.

MR6 Two names lost at bottom of torn page; both names are from C Co. 2nd Battn. 67th Regt. Both surnames are Corpls.in: C Co, regt. nos. (943 ?) and (376). They follow Sergt, Thomas Spiller.

MR6 One name cut off bottom of p. 36 verso. It is a surname between Thomas West (above) and William White (below). The name belongs to H Co. 2nd Battn. 67th (South Hampshire) Regt.

MR6 One name cut off the bottom of the; the preceding name is: Private Charles Brockwell (1976) H Co. 2nd Battn. 67th (South Hampshire) Regt. The regt. no. of the lost name appears to be (1748)

Annex 2: Mortality

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The official returns and casualty lists given in official sources and regimental records are intended to reflect those men who were killed or died in the prosecution of the war, either in action, or from wounds received in action, or other forms of death (murder, drowning, suicide, accidental shooting, wounding, sickness) directly associated with the prosecution of the hostilities. They do not attempt to reflect the full extent of mortality which may be attributed to the war: the more numerous men who fell victim to disease, or those who may have died some considerable time afterward from wounds received in the war, or who may simply have died from exhaustion, heat stroke, or numerous other causes, deaths which in the main may be attributed either directly, or indirectly, to participation in the war.

The present list is, therefore, not a casuality list, but a mortality list, and includes, insofar as possible, all deaths which the existing records intimate may be attributable to service in Afghanistan during the period of the war, and during the period of occupation of Kandahar for some months after the official cessation of hostilities. As an indication of mortality as distinct from casualty, I have accepted the most recent casualty list published by A. Farrington (abbrev. "F," see Bibliography). Those names which appear in Farrington have been preceded by an asterisk. The present mortality list does not include those who received non-mortal wounds (as Farrington does) but only those who died, either from wounds or other causes, during hostilities (ending on 1 September 1880), and for a short time after when the British army regiments occupied Kandahar until April 1881.

No casualty or mortality list can claim to be complete; the existing records are not adequate to produce such a definitive reckoning. Thus it will be noted that some reported in the Medal Rolls as killed in action (KIA) escaped recording by Farrington. Likewise, I have assumed that the Medal Rolls have not in every case recorded men who died from illness, or some other cause, and there are instances, as well, where the Medal Rolls do not record some either KIA, or deceased from other causes. My evidence for this is contained in burial registers which at times list men who do not even appear in the Medal Rolls, and records such as that compiled by Corrie for the 11th (North Devonshire) Regt. which also contains deaths not recorded in the Medal Rolls. In some cases, it is a matter of carelessness in recording the names correctly; the burial registers are especially inadequate in this regard. But the records of the individual regiments were also kept with varying degress of completeness and accuracy. The records of some of the regiments cite suspiciously few deaths; some of those KIA, but none, or hardly any, of those who died from wounds or illness. The 1st Battalion 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment records only one killed (an officer, not in F) and two “deceased” in MR4: Lieut. Joseph Coyle and Capt. Herbert Williams, revealing of its probable disregard for the “other ranks.” This slight mortality record is possible, but highly unlikely. No mention is made of the wounded, twelve of whom were invalided to England, or the 50-60 deaths from cholera. The record in MR4 lists only 717 men, but Shadbolt gives 800 (a suspiciously round figure) in his Historical volume (SH) who crossed the ill-defined border into Afghanistan, many several times. Hence, I presume the actual number of deaths directly attributable to service in the war to be considerably greater than those I have been able to record in the Mortality list. Not a single KIA, wounding or death is recorded in the Medal Roll for the 1st. Battn. 25th (The King’s Borderers) Regt., (over one thousand men recorded in the Medal Roll). This is a virtual impossibility, and indeed, some have been found in other sources and entered here. Whenever it has been possible to cross-reference the sources, this has been noted. But there are clear cases where deaths recorded in the burial registers were not noted in the Medal Rolls. A true and complete mortality list would quite certainly be considerably longer than that given here. It would include those whose deaths some years after the war were the result of wounds received, or illnesses suffered. There is no record of these, but surely they were numerous. An estimation is not possible. For the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt., badly mauled in the Battle of Maiwand, and the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., who bore the brunt of casualties in the Sept. 1, 1880 Battle of Kandahar, I have included the “Sick” and those simply identified as being “in Hospital [Kandahar] Citadel” because it cannot be doubted that many of these were either mortally or severely wounded and very likely to have died. F minimized the number of deaths among the 92nd Regt. by including only those who died within three or four days after the Battle of Kandahar. Gen. Roberts wished to show few British soldiers died in his decisive battle at Kandahar, and his wish still seems to support the accounting. While it is likely that some of the Kandahar wounded did survive, it is probable that many of the wounded in Hospital in the Kandahar Citadel died of their wounds wthin a week, or more, and were not recorded among the casualties, as the death registers indicate, even though these registers are themselves are not wholly reliable in their accounts.

The Regiments that lost the most men in battles and skirmishes, or as a result of the war, were the 9th (The King’s Royal) Hussars) Regt., the 10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Hussars Regt., The E/B R.H.A. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 17th (Leicester) Regt. (most through sickness), the 66th (Berkeshire) Regt. (most in the Battle of Maiwand), the 72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlands) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar), the 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt. (many in the Battle of Kandahar). On those occasions (especially Maiwand) when many troops were killed over a large area, or when bodies could not be soon after retrieved or never found, burial parties placed unidentifiable remains in trenches, and a single memorial stone placed either at the trench or at the nearest regularized cemetery (e,g, Kabul-Sherpur). But in this regard more effort was expended on individual burials and stone memorials of officers than for those of the Other Ranks.

It is not always possible to ascertain with certainty whether a man who died of wounds at Kandahar on, say, 10 Sept. 1880, received those wounds at Maiwand (27 July), the Deh Khwaja sortie (16 Aug.), during the August siege of Kandahar, or at the Battle of Kandahar (1 Sept.). By far the greatest mortality was caused by sickness, particularly the virulent cholera epidemic during the spring and early summer of 1879. No separate list has been compiled of deaths from illness. Naturally, those regiments which served throughout both phases of the war and were engaged in the most costly battles (Basawal, Kabul, Ahmed Khel, Maiwand, Deh Khwaja,.Kandahar) show the greatest number of battle-related deaths. But regiments such as the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., which participated in the first phase of the war only, suffered more severely than most others from the cholera epidemic of spring 1879. The nine suicides have been recorded on the assumption that their cause was related to the psychological stress of the war. It is likely there were more.

References here are abbreviated. Fuller details, including sources for the data, can be found with the main entry, and in the bibliography. When date or place of d. is unrec., it is recorded thus.

You can search the mortality list in the FIBIS Database

The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881

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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.

'''Compiled by William Trousdale'''

''Brian Robson, CB'' <br>
''In Memoriam''

[[Category:2nd Afghan War]]

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Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan

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To my knowledge the only extant funerary memorials from the period of the Second Afghan War are those in Kabul, in the Qabr Gorah in the Sherpur district of Kabul. This cemetery is known to most Westerners as the "Foreigners Cemetery," or the "Christian Cemetery," and, until the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, was maintained by a committee nominally under the direction of the British Embassy. After this date, it continued to be looked after by the Rev. Father Angelo Panigati, the Roman Catholic priest for many years attached to the chapel within the Italian Embassy at Kabul (see '''The New York Times International''', April 13, 1989, and '''The Los Angeles Times''', May 10, 1989, Pt. I, pp. 1, 10-11). In August 1993 the cemetery was visited by a British subject, T.A. Willasey-Wilsey (private communication). He reported that the walls and wooden gates were still intact, that the Afghan war memorial stones were still preserved in the southwest wall, and that in general the cemetery had not greatly suffered from vandalism. All the trees within the walls, however, had been cut down by Kabul residents for fuel owing to the difficulty of procuring fuel from outside the city, particularly since the Russian withdrawal and the presence of warring '''mujahadin''' factions surrounding the city.

The cemetery lies at the northern end of the Bemaru Hill and retains still the configuration given it by the British forces during their occupation of Kabul in 1879 and 1880. The cemetery lay just outside the Sherpur Cantonment, an enormous walled enclosure commenced by the amir Sher Ali Khan, but reinforced by the British forces garrisoned within its precinct. The site of the walls of this cantonment, now well within the expanded city, are still partly traceable in the modern city. Contemporary photographs of the cemetery exist, one made by the photographer John Burke (NAM neg. no. ******, Burke ***, being the best general view) who was present at Kabul from early December 1879 till April or May 1880. The cemetery is not large, and for the most part we may assume that it was chiefly commissioned and non-commissioned officers who were buried there. The bodies of the Other Ranks, when recovered, were frequently buried in mass graves. The locations of these, with the exception of the Maiwand burials, if recorded, are unknown to me.

In the rising gravel plain to the north of Kandahar, situated in the largest Muslim burial ground, is a still mud-walled compound where earth mounds mark British burials, presumably the graves of officers. When burials outside the city could not be made, references and photographs indicate that there was a cemtery on open ground within the northwest walls, and another cemetry close to the south, or Shikarper, gate to the city in open land marked “brickfields” on an as yet unpublished plan of the city. When the British were not restricted by siege, burials were also made outside the Shikarpur Gate, in vacant lands in the area of brick kilns. These lands were also employed as burning ghats for Hindu residents of Kandahar. Burials were made in several other areas around the wall of the city. Though cited in diaries of the period, I believe no visible remains have been located. There are no extant burial or memorial stones in any of these grounds. The last report of a very few fragmentary stones appears in the one volume, published by Miles Irving and George William de Rhé-Philipe, in the series '''Indian Monumental Inscriptions''' in 1910-1912 (see Bibliography). During the last half century I have neither heard, nor seen, and mention of an extant memorial stone having been found in the many places where the British died within Afghanistan.

Following the British evacuation of Kabul in August 1880, the cemetery in that city was apparently respected (if neglected) by the Afghans to judge from a report made by Charles E. Yate in October 1886 (see '''Northern Afghaistan''', p. 369):

Colonel [William Ironside] Bax and Dr. [William] Owen paid a visit to the cemetery, which, they said, was very little disturbed; some of the graves had sunk and fallen in, and most of the tombstones were down on the ground, and the names carved on them had been chipped and defaced, apparently by mischievous boys, but a little repair would put all to rights again. This the Amir [Abdur Rahman] himself promised Sir West Ridgeway should be done, and, in fact, before we left Kabul orders were issued by his Highness for the wall to be built up afresh, and the whole cemetery to be repaired and preserved.

These usually minor depredations continued through the years (1959-1979) I anually visited, plotted, photographed, and recorded all the graves, some of which were more than once translated. Those stones with inlaid lead letters received the most attention, though the digging out of the lead caused no significant loss to the inscriptions. Bronze was also frequently removed from many of the graves where memorializers were unwise to have used it. To my knowledge, only one name was lost because the name formed part of the elaborate bronze cross marking the grave. But it was a sad loss because the grave was that of Hans Henning Haslund-Christiansen, a scholar who added much to our knowledge of the ethnology of Central Asia. My efforts to persuade the Danish government to replace the lost bronze cross with a more appropriate substance were not acknowledged.

The Sherpur and Kandahar cemeteries were not the only one where British war dead were buried in the Kabul region. References exist to burials at Charasiab, to the west of Kabul, where the last major battle was waged before the troops entered the city in October 1879. In the early days of the occupation troops were quartered in the Bala Hissar, and burials from this period were generally at Siah Sang, a hill within the city. There was at least one other proper cemetery somewhere below, or on the eastern slope of, the Koh-i Asmai, and until the 1930's a large Muslim burial ground still remained at Asmai. Another cemetery at Beni Shahr [Hissar], at the Kandahar road entry to Kabul, was also for a short time used in the opening days of the Kabul occupation.

Cemeteries existed, of course, by every town occupied by the British and Indian Armies during the war, and along the routes used by the army entering and leaving the country, as at Sei Baba and Sarobi, on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad, or at Shutar Gardan and Zaidabad, along the army's march toward Kabul in the autumn of 1879. Another cemetery was located in the Kurram Valley where those killed in the Battle of Peiwar Kotal, during the first phase, were interred, and this cemetery continued in use throughout the second phase of the war as well. Still another was located at Basawal were there was a major battle during the first phase, and where the deceased stationed in the area continued to be interred during the second phase.

Isolated burials, where soldiers fell in action, abounded wherever battles or skirmishes were waged and when it was impracticable to remove the bodies later to one of the more formally defined cemeteries. The locations of several of these cemeteries are known, especially at Kandahar. There was a cemetery at Safed Sang, close to Gandamak where the British and Afghans signed a treaty with the amir Yakub Khan in May 1879 which was to have concluded the war, but was, in fact, only its prelude, and this cemetery was afterward used during the second and longer phase of the war. A photograph exists of this burial ground (******). Many of the troops who died of sickness or wounds were buried in plots along the march routes into Afghanistan, between Quetta and Kandahar, and Peshawar, Jalalabad and Kabul. A few bodies were subsequently removed to sites in India, but these are exceptions. Others who died of sickness, or epidemics (chiefly cholera following the first phase) were buried at Landi Kotal in the Khyber Pass, or at Peshawar.

Stone memorials, however, are extant only in the Kabul/Sherpur cemetery, though a few remained at Kandahar during the early decades of the twentieth century. The Kabul/Sherpur memorials are no longer in situ. The cemetery has been in more or less constant use for the burials of foreigners who died in Kabul from the date of formation of the cemetery to the present day. The celebrated archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Sir Marc Aurel Stein, is buried there, as is the noted ethnologist of Mongolia Henning Haslund-Christensen, among diplomats, travellers, business men, and, in later years, many young people seeking a changed lifestyle through Asian travel and the ready availability of drugs in Afghanistan. In consequence, the memorial stones present in the cemetery today represent only the most recent level of burials in this restricted plot.

I am unacquainted with the precise details of the finding of the ten stone memorials from the Afghan Wars (one appears to bear the date 1842). Locally I have been told that the stones were discovered in a stone mason's shop where they were intended for re-engraving. But this may be no more than lore. Miles Irving ('''IMI''', vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 9) reported early in the 20th century that "the tombstones have been taken off, and are now stored in a small hut in a corner of the cemetery, and many of them are broken." (This hut exists still, and contains now stones of deceased who have been repatriated, or, in one case at least, a stone which seems to have offended the sensibilities of a segment of the more fundamentalist Christian community.) On p. 182 of the same vol, Irving again records the following: "There are no inscriptions on the graves in the Kabul and Jalalabad cemeteries. The gravestones at Sherpur have been collected and deposited in a domed hut in the corner of the graveyard, but no record has been taken of the inscriptions." As we shall see, this statement is not accurate, as nine inscribed stones, and one possibly from the First Afghan War, in fact, exist still in the Kabul/Sherpur cemetery.

A more reliable account of the recovery appears in '''Chowkidar''', vol. I, No. 2 (February 1978) p. 3: "Graveyards in Afghanistan struck a particular chord with our Chairman [Maj.-Gen. G.M. Dyer, CBE, DSO] who at the end of the Second World War collected badly damaged 19th century British gravestones at Kabul and built them into the south wall of the Shar-e-Nau Foreigners Cemetery." Whatever the circumstances of their discovery, the ten stones are, indeed, cemented into the south wall. Some are broken (as noted), others difficult to decipher owing to chipped letters and repeated careless lime-washing of the surrounding wall, frequently splashed over the stones. On numerous occasions between 1959 and 1979 I paid visits to the cemetery, to record and photograph recent burials (some of which vanished or were translated during this time) and by my last visit in April of 1979 had recorded and rechecked and photographed (with the help of companions) every extant monument in the cemetery. My record, therefore, covers nineteen years only in the long history of this cemetery, but for the present work I record only the relevant memorials.

All of the extant memorials save one (9th [The Queen's Royal] Lancers) are to single individuals. All of the individuals recorded here appear in the present roster, and reference should be made to the individual names in the body of this work for variants drawn from different records. The cemetery was visited briefly in August 1993 by T.A. Willasey-Wilsey (see Bibliography) and his subsequest report to BACSA indicates that as of that date the Anglo-Afghan war memorial stones had not suffered from the Russo-Afghan war (1979-1989) and subsequent civil war up to this date. No later account has been received.

== The Memorials ==

Note: letters and numbers appearing in BOLD are interpolated.

# Cr Sergt J Drummond/ 92nd Gordon Highlanders/ Who Was killed in action/ At Kabul on the 15th of Dec 1879/ Aged 41 Years/ ... is erected as a/ Mark of esteem by his Brother,/ SERGEANTS [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges]
# CHARLES JOHN RUMBALL/ HEARSEY/ LIEUT 9th LANCERS/ KILLED IN ACTION/ 11th DECer 1879 [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges; inscription oriented toward side]
# In memory of/ CECIL H. GAISFORD/ LIEUt 72nd HIGHers/ killed in action/ on the Asmai Heights/ 14th December, 1879 M.KING 72MG [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges. "M.KING 72MG" probably indicates the engraver, and may be either 693 Private Michael King, or 970 Private Michael King, both of the 72nd Regt., the "MG" being an abbreviation of Regiment.]
# IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOSHUA HENRY PORTER/ PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER/ KABUL FIELD FORCE/ DIED 9th JANUARY/ 1880/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH [stone placed vertically in wall is flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges; inscription oriented toward side]
# SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ CHARLES NUGENT/ LIEUTENANT/ ROYAL ENGINEERS/ who was killed/ BY THE ACCIDENTAL/ EXPLOSION/ of a mine/ 23rd DECEMBER/ 1879/ AGED/ 20 YEARS [stone placed vertically in wall is flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges]
# IN MEMORY OF/ St JOHN FORBES/ LIEUt 92nd HIGHLANDERS/ KILLED IN ACTION/ AT/ KABUL/ '''13th''' DECEMBER '''1879''' [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other]
# IN MEMORY OF/ MAJOR JOHN COOK \'''VC'''/ 5th GOORKHAS/ WHO DIED ON THE/ 19th OF DECEMBER 1879/ '''OF WOUNDS''' RECEIVED IN ACTION BEF'''ORE'''/ KABUL [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other; of his VC, only the one line "\" remains]
# '''SAC'''RED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ .../ THIS STONE WAS/ ERECTED/ As a Mark of esteem/ by his Brother/ SERGEANTS [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other; only possible names are: Lance-Sergt. George Edward, 2nd Battn. 67th Regt., Colour-Sergt. John Yule, 72nd Regt., Sergt. James Cross, 9th Regt., Colour-Sergt. Thomas Smith, 92nd Regt., as these are the only sergeants recorded as having died at Kabul]
# This stone is a memorial to the non-commissioned men of the 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers who died, or were killed, during the late autumn and early winter of 1879. The stone is fragmentary (letters in '''bold''' only), but reconstruction of all the names it contained has been possible; the upper part of the stone is missing. The names are arranged in two columns, with an upper inscription partially and conjecturally restored. Of the three commissiond officers of the 9th Lancers who were buried in individual graves, the only extant stone is that of Lieutenant Charles Rumball Hearsey, aged 24, KIA Dec. 11, 1879, buried Dec. 13, 1879, J.W. Adams, Chaplain. His stone is 2) here. The other two officers of the 9th Lancers, whose memorial stones are no longer extant, are Captain Strange Gould Butler, aged [?], KIA Dec. 13, 1879, buried Dec. 15, 1879, J. W. Adams, Chaplain, and Second Lieutenant William Percy Ricardo, aged 21, KIA Dec. 11, 1879, buried Dec. 12, 1879, Roman Chaplain. These are recorded in . Not all of these men appear with the 9th Lancers recorded in MRI.

All of the below who are recorded in the MRI lists as their names are given here; those KIA or deceased who are in the MRI lists are recorded in greater detail in .

... KILLED '''IN AFGHANISTAN
SINCE''' Oer 1879

{| class="wikitable"
! [Left Column] !! [Right Column]
|-
| '''Trumpet''' Mjr H. POTTER. || T.'''roop''' S.'''ergt. H.'''
|-
| '''Lce''' SEgt E. SHEPHERD. || '''SPITTLE'''.
|-
| Lce Cpl A. DANCASTER. || Lce. Cp. '''Alfred I.'''
|-
| Pte J. HARRIS. || '''Brown'''.
|-
| --- J. GAMBLE. || Pte G. '''SIMKINS'''.
|-
| --- T. LONGFORD. || --- J. L'''OAL'''.
|-
| --- J.F. CARLYSLE. || DIED OF '''WOUNDS'''
|-
| --- T. LARGE. || Pte. T. M'''abon'''.
|-
| --- W. LLOYD. || --- F. WH'''ALEY'''.
|-
| --- T. RUSSELL. || --- W. BID'''WELL''',
|-
| --- A. SMITH. || --- A. CO'''LE'''.
|-
| --- W. TILLOTSON. || DIED OF S'''ICKNESS'''
|-
| --- C. HEDGES. || Pte H. OAKES.
|-
| --- W. NEWSOME. || --- A. SULLY.
|-
| --- L. SWANN. || --- B. MUR'''PHY'''.
|-
| --- R. WILKINSON. || '''Far. Mjr. A. MOORE'''.
|-
| || '''--- G. PYE'''
|}

Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan

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To my knowledge the only extant funerary memorials from the period of the Second Afghan War are those in Kabul, in the Qabr Gorah in the Sherpur district of Kabul. This cemetery is known to most Westerners as the "Foreigners Cemetery," or the "Christian Cemetery," and, until the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, was maintained by a committee nominally under the direction of the British Embassy. After this date, it continued to be looked after by the Rev. Father Angelo Panigati, the Roman Catholic priest for many years attached to the chapel within the Italian Embassy at Kabul (see '''The New York Times International''', April 13, 1989, and '''The Los Angeles Times''', May 10, 1989, Pt. I, pp. 1, 10-11). In August 1993 the cemetery was visited by a British subject, T.A. Willasey-Wilsey (private communication). He reported that the walls and wooden gates were still intact, that the Afghan war memorial stones were still preserved in the southwest wall, and that in general the cemetery had not greatly suffered from vandalism. All the trees within the walls, however, had been cut down by Kabul residents for fuel owing to the difficulty of procuring fuel from outside the city, particularly since the Russian withdrawal and the presence of warring '''mujahadin''' factions surrounding the city.

The cemetery lies at the northern end of the Bemaru Hill and retains still the configuration given it by the British forces during their occupation of Kabul in 1879 and 1880. The cemetery lay just outside the Sherpur Cantonment, an enormous walled enclosure commenced by the amir Sher Ali Khan, but reinforced by the British forces garrisoned within its precinct. The site of the walls of this cantonment, now well within the expanded city, are still partly traceable in the modern city. Contemporary photographs of the cemetery exist, one made by the photographer John Burke (NAM neg. no. ******, Burke ***, being the best general view) who was present at Kabul from early December 1879 till April or May 1880. The cemetery is not large, and for the most part we may assume that it was chiefly commissioned and non-commissioned officers who were buried there. The bodies of the Other Ranks, when recovered, were frequently buried in mass graves. The locations of these, with the exception of the Maiwand burials, if recorded, are unknown to me.

In the rising gravel plain to the north of Kandahar, situated in the largest Muslim burial ground, is a still mud-walled compound where earth mounds mark British burials, presumably the graves of officers. When burials outside the city could not be made, references and photographs indicate that there was a cemtery on open ground within the northwest walls, and another cemetry close to the south, or Shikarper, gate to the city in open land marked “brickfields” on an as yet unpublished plan of the city. When the British were not restricted by siege, burials were also made outside the Shikarpur Gate, in vacant lands in the area of brick kilns. These lands were also employed as burning ghats for Hindu residents of Kandahar. Burials were made in several other areas around the wall of the city. Though cited in diaries of the period, I believe no visible remains have been located. There are no extant burial or memorial stones in any of these grounds. The last report of a very few fragmentary stones appears in the one volume, published by Miles Irving and George William de Rhé-Philipe, in the series '''Indian Monumental Inscriptions''' in 1910-1912 (see Bibliography). During the last half century I have neither heard, nor seen, and mention of an extant memorial stone having been found in the many places where the British died within Afghanistan.

Following the British evacuation of Kabul in August 1880, the cemetery in that city was apparently respected (if neglected) by the Afghans to judge from a report made by Charles E. Yate in October 1886 (see '''Northern Afghaistan''', p. 369):

Colonel [William Ironside] Bax and Dr. [William] Owen paid a visit to the cemetery, which, they said, was very little disturbed; some of the graves had sunk and fallen in, and most of the tombstones were down on the ground, and the names carved on them had been chipped and defaced, apparently by mischievous boys, but a little repair would put all to rights again. This the Amir [Abdur Rahman] himself promised Sir West Ridgeway should be done, and, in fact, before we left Kabul orders were issued by his Highness for the wall to be built up afresh, and the whole cemetery to be repaired and preserved.

These usually minor depredations continued through the years (1959-1979) I anually visited, plotted, photographed, and recorded all the graves, some of which were more than once translated. Those stones with inlaid lead letters received the most attention, though the digging out of the lead caused no significant loss to the inscriptions. Bronze was also frequently removed from many of the graves where memorializers were unwise to have used it. To my knowledge, only one name was lost because the name formed part of the elaborate bronze cross marking the grave. But it was a sad loss because the grave was that of Hans Henning Haslund-Christiansen, a scholar who added much to our knowledge of the ethnology of Central Asia. My efforts to persuade the Danish government to replace the lost bronze cross with a more appropriate substance were not acknowledged.

The Sherpur and Kandahar cemeteries were not the only one where British war dead were buried in the Kabul region. References exist to burials at Charasiab, to the west of Kabul, where the last major battle was waged before the troops entered the city in October 1879. In the early days of the occupation troops were quartered in the Bala Hissar, and burials from this period were generally at Siah Sang, a hill within the city. There was at least one other proper cemetery somewhere below, or on the eastern slope of, the Koh-i Asmai, and until the 1930's a large Muslim burial ground still remained at Asmai. Another cemetery at Beni Shahr [Hissar], at the Kandahar road entry to Kabul, was also for a short time used in the opening days of the Kabul occupation.

Cemeteries existed, of course, by every town occupied by the British and Indian Armies during the war, and along the routes used by the army entering and leaving the country, as at Sei Baba and Sarobi, on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad, or at Shutar Gardan and Zaidabad, along the army's march toward Kabul in the autumn of 1879. Another cemetery was located in the Kurram Valley where those killed in the Battle of Peiwar Kotal, during the first phase, were interred, and this cemetery continued in use throughout the second phase of the war as well. Still another was located at Basawal were there was a major battle during the first phase, and where the deceased stationed in the area continued to be interred during the second phase.

Isolated burials, where soldiers fell in action, abounded wherever battles or skirmishes were waged and when it was impracticable to remove the bodies later to one of the more formally defined cemeteries. The locations of several of these cemeteries are known, especially at Kandahar. There was a cemetery at Safed Sang, close to Gandamak where the British and Afghans signed a treaty with the amir Yakub Khan in May 1879 which was to have concluded the war, but was, in fact, only its prelude, and this cemetery was afterward used during the second and longer phase of the war. A photograph exists of this burial ground (******). Many of the troops who died of sickness or wounds were buried in plots along the march routes into Afghanistan, between Quetta and Kandahar, and Peshawar, Jalalabad and Kabul. A few bodies were subsequently removed to sites in India, but these are exceptions. Others who died of sickness, or epidemics (chiefly cholera following the first phase) were buried at Landi Kotal in the Khyber Pass, or at Peshawar.

Stone memorials, however, are extant only in the Kabul/Sherpur cemetery, though a few remained at Kandahar during the early decades of the twentieth century. The Kabul/Sherpur memorials are no longer in situ. The cemetery has been in more or less constant use for the burials of foreigners who died in Kabul from the date of formation of the cemetery to the present day. The celebrated archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Sir Marc Aurel Stein, is buried there, as is the noted ethnologist of Mongolia Henning Haslund-Christensen, among diplomats, travellers, business men, and, in later years, many young people seeking a changed lifestyle through Asian travel and the ready availability of drugs in Afghanistan. In consequence, the memorial stones present in the cemetery today represent only the most recent level of burials in this restricted plot.

I am unacquainted with the precise details of the finding of the ten stone memorials from the Afghan Wars (one appears to bear the date 1842). Locally I have been told that the stones were discovered in a stone mason's shop where they were intended for re-engraving. But this may be no more than lore. Miles Irving ('''IMI''', vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 9) reported early in the 20th century that "the tombstones have been taken off, and are now stored in a small hut in a corner of the cemetery, and many of them are broken." (This hut exists still, and contains now stones of deceased who have been repatriated, or, in one case at least, a stone which seems to have offended the sensibilities of a segment of the more fundamentalist Christian community.) On p. 182 of the same vol, Irving again records the following: "There are no inscriptions on the graves in the Kabul and Jalalabad cemeteries. The gravestones at Sherpur have been collected and deposited in a domed hut in the corner of the graveyard, but no record has been taken of the inscriptions." As we shall see, this statement is not accurate, as nine inscribed stones, and one possibly from the First Afghan War, in fact, exist still in the Kabul/Sherpur cemetery.

A more reliable account of the recovery appears in '''Chowkidar''', vol. I, No. 2 (February 1978) p. 3: "Graveyards in Afghanistan struck a particular chord with our Chairman [Maj.-Gen. G.M. Dyer, CBE, DSO] who at the end of the Second World War collected badly damaged 19th century British gravestones at Kabul and built them into the south wall of the Shar-e-Nau Foreigners Cemetery." Whatever the circumstances of their discovery, the ten stones are, indeed, cemented into the south wall. Some are broken (as noted), others difficult to decipher owing to chipped letters and repeated careless lime-washing of the surrounding wall, frequently splashed over the stones. On numerous occasions between 1959 and 1979 I paid visits to the cemetery, to record and photograph recent burials (some of which vanished or were translated during this time) and by my last visit in April of 1979 had recorded and rechecked and photographed (with the help of companions) every extant monument in the cemetery. My record, therefore, covers nineteen years only in the long history of this cemetery, but for the present work I record only the relevant memorials.

All of the extant memorials save one (9th [The Queen's Royal] Lancers) are to single individuals. All of the individuals recorded here appear in the present roster, and reference should be made to the individual names in the body of this work for variants drawn from different records. The cemetery was visited briefly in August 1993 by T.A. Willasey-Wilsey (see Bibliography) and his subsequest report to BACSA indicates that as of that date the Anglo-Afghan war memorial stones had not suffered from the Russo-Afghan war (1979-1989) and subsequent civil war up to this date. No later account has been received.

== The Memorials ==

Note: letters and numbers appearing in BOLD are interpolated.

# Cr Sergt J Drummond/ 92nd Gordon Highlanders/ Who Was killed in action/ At Kabul on the 15th of Dec 1879/ Aged 41 Years/ ... is erected as a/ Mark of esteem by his Brother,/ SERGEANTS [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges]
# CHARLES JOHN RUMBALL/ HEARSEY/ LIEUT 9th LANCERS/ KILLED IN ACTION/ 11th DECer 1879 [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges; inscription oriented toward side]
# In memory of/ CECIL H. GAISFORD/ LIEUt 72nd HIGHers/ killed in action/ on the Asmai Heights/ 14th December, 1879 M.KING 72MG [stone placed vertically in wall is a flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges. "M.KING 72MG" probably indicates the engraver, and may be either 693 Private Michael King, or 970 Private Michael King, both of the 72nd Regt., the "MG" being an abbreviation of Regiment.]
# IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOSHUA HENRY PORTER/ PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER/ KABUL FIELD FORCE/ DIED 9th JANUARY/ 1880/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH [stone placed vertically in wall is flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges; inscription oriented toward side]
# SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ CHARLES NUGENT/ LIEUTENANT/ ROYAL ENGINEERS/ who was killed/ BY THE ACCIDENTAL/ EXPLOSION/ of a mine/ 23rd DECEMBER/ 1879/ AGED/ 20 YEARS [stone placed vertically in wall is flat grave-cover type stone, with bevelled edges]
# IN MEMORY OF/ St JOHN FORBES/ LIEUt 92nd HIGHLANDERS/ KILLED IN ACTION/ AT/ KABUL/ 13th DECEMBER 1879 [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other]
# IN MEMORY OF/ MAJOR JOHN COOK \VC/ 5th GOORKHAS/ WHO DIED ON THE/ 19th OF DECEMBER 1879/ OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION BEFORE/ KABUL [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other; of his VC, only the one line "\" remains]
# SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ .../ THIS STONE WAS/ ERECTED/ As a Mark of esteem/ by his Brother/ SERGEANTS [stone placed vertically in wall is center-ridged grave-cover type stone with half inscription facing one side, half the other; only possible names are: Lance-Sergt. George Edward, 2nd Battn. 67th Regt., Colour-Sergt. John Yule, 72nd Regt., Sergt. James Cross, 9th Regt., Colour-Sergt. Thomas Smith, 92nd Regt., as these are the only sergeants recorded as having died at Kabul]
# This stone is a memorial to the non-commissioned men of the 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers who died, or were killed, during the late autumn and early winter of 1879. The stone is fragmentary (letters in bold only), but reconstruction of all the names it contained has been possible; the upper part of the stone is missing. The names are arranged in two columns, with an upper inscription partially and conjecturally restored. Of the three commissiond officers of the 9th Lancers who were buried in individual graves, the only extant stone is that of Lieutenant Charles Rumball Hearsey, aged 24, KIA Dec. 11, 1879, buried Dec. 13, 1879, J.W. Adams, Chaplain. His stone is 2) here. The other two officers of the 9th Lancers, whose memorial stones are no longer extant, are Captain Strange Gould Butler, aged [?], KIA Dec. 13, 1879, buried Dec. 15, 1879, J. W. Adams, Chaplain, and Second Lieutenant William Percy Ricardo, aged 21, KIA Dec. 11, 1879, buried Dec. 12, 1879, Roman Chaplain. These are recorded in . Not all of these men appear with the 9th Lancers recorded in MRI.

All of the below who are recorded in the MRI lists as their names are given here; those KIA or deceased who are in the MRI lists are recorded in greater detail in .

... KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
SINCE Oer 1879

[Left Column] [Right Column]

Trumpet Mjr H. POTTER. T.roop S.ergt. H.
Lce SEgt E. SHEPHERD. SPITTLE.
Lce Cpl A. DANCASTER. Lce. Cp. Alfred I.
Pte J. HARRIS. Brown.
--- J. GAMBLE. Pte G. SIMKINS.
--- T. LONGFORD. --- J. LOAL.
--- J.F. CARLYSLE. DIED OF WOUNDS
--- T. LARGE. Pte. T. Mabon.
--- W. LLOYD. --- F. WHALEY.
--- T. RUSSELL. --- W. BIDWELL,
--- A. SMITH. --- A. COLE.
--- W. TILLOTSON. DIED OF SICKNESS
--- C. HEDGES. Pte H. OAKES.
--- W. NEWSOME. --- A. SULLY.
--- L. SWANN. --- B. MURPHY.
--- R. WILKINSON. Far. Mjr. A. MOORE.

--- G. PYE

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* actg. Lance-Sergt./acting Lance-Sergeant
* actg. Magazine Sergt./acting Magazine Sergeant, Ordnance Department
* actg. Sergt./acting Sergeant
* actg. Sergt.-Maj./acting Sergeant-Major
* actg. Sub Conductor/acting Subordinate Conductor [Commassariat, Ordnance]
* Adjt./Adjutant
* Adjt.-Gen./Adjutant-General
* A.D.C./Aide-de-Camp
* Afghan Field Force
* Agency Surg. [Agency Surgeon]
* Agent
* Apothecary
* Apprentice Apothecary
* Armourer
* Armourer Sergt./Armourer Sergeant
* Armstrong Armourer
* Armstrong Armourer Sergt./Armstrong Armourer Sergeant
* Army Medical Department
* Army Signaller
* Army Veterinary Department
* Asst. Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan/Assistant Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan
* Asst. Adjt.-Gen./Assistant Adjutant-General
* Asst. Adjt.-Gen., Reserve List/Assistant Adjutant-General, Reserve List
* Asst. Agent/Assistant Agent [serving with C.S. superior officer in a region or territory]
* Asst. Apothecary/Assistant Apothecary
* Asst. Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establistment/Assistant Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establishment
* Asst. Commissary Gen./Assistant Commissary General
* Asst. Commissary of Ordnance/Assistant Commissary of Ordnance]
* Asst. Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner [geographical area]
* Asst. Controller Gen./Assistant Controller General
* Asst. Engineer/Assistant Engineer
* Asst. Field Engineer/Assistant Field Engineer {R.E.]
* Asst. Field Transport Officer/Assistant Field Transport Officer
* Asst. Political Officer/Assistant Political Officer [Civil Service]
* Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Assistant Quarter-Master General
* Asst. Superintendent/Assistant Superintent
* Asst. Superintendent, Bengal Police/Assistant Superintendent, Bengal Police
* Asst. Superintendent of Telegraph/Assistant Superintendent of Telegraph (Khyber Line)]
* Asst. Superintendent of Telegraphs Department/Assistant Superintenden,t Telegraph Department
* Asst. Superintendent of Transport/Assistant Superintendent of Transport
* Asst. Surg./Assistant Surgeon
* Attached [to a regiment, Brigade, or Department]
* Baluchistan Agency
* Band Major
* Band Master
* Band Master Sergt./Band Master Sergeant
* Band Sergt./Band Sergeant
* Barrack Sergt./Barrack Sergeant
* Base Hospital
* Batt./Battery
* Batt. Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant
* Batt. Sergt.-Maj./Battery Sergeant-Major
* Bazaar Sergt./Bazaar Sergeant
* Bde. Maj./Brigade Major
* Bde. Sergt./Brigade Sergeant
* Bde. Surg./Brigade Surgeon
* Bde. Transport Officer/Brigade Transport Officer
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bengal Cavalry
* Bengal Infantry
* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Police
* Bhopal Battn./Bhopal Battalion [Bombay Staff Corps]
* Bombardier
* Bombardier Collar Maker
* Bombardier Wheeler
* Bombay Cavalry
* Bombay Commissiariat Dept./Bombay Commissiariat Department
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bombay Infantry
* Bombay Medical Department
* Bombay Ordnance Department
* Brig.-Gen./Brigadier-General
* Bt./Brevet (preceding rank)
* Bugle Major
* Bugler
* Candahar State Railway
* Capt./Captain
* Carpenter
* Carriage Smith
* Cavalry Bde./Cavalry Brigade
* Chaplain [Wesleyan and Presbyterian Troops]
* Chaplain [Church of Scotland; Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment]
* Chief Commissariat Officer
* Chief Director of Transport
* Chief of the Staff [to Commander of Force, or Divivision]
* Chief of Staff of the Army of India
* Chief Political Officer
* Chief Political Officer, Northern and Eastern Afghanistan
* Cit./cited, citation, citations
* Clerk Orderly Room (see Orderly Room Clerk)
* Coast Brigade R.A./Coast Brigade Royal Artillery
* Col./Colonel
* Collar Maker
* Collar Maker Sergt./Collar Maker Sergeant
* Colour-Sergt./Colour-Sergeant
* Commandant
* Commanding [a regt.]
* Commissariat Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay; Division, Field Force]
* Commissariat Godowns
* Commissariat Sergt./Commissariat Sergeant
* Commissariat Stores
* Commissary Gen./Commissary General
* Commissary Subordinate
* Commissary of Ordnance
* Commissioner [attached to a Division; Civil Service Officer]
* Conductor [Ordnance Department; Commissariat Stores]
* Consulting Engineer, Government of India, State Railways
* Controller General of Supply and Transport
* Corpl./Corporal
* Corpl./Collar Maker/Corporal Collar Maker
* Corps of Armourers
* Corps of Sappers and Miners (Queen’s Own) [R.E.; Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Deputy Adjt. Gen./Deputy Adjutant General
* Deputy Asst. Adjt./Deputy Assistant Adjutant
* Deputy Asst. Commissary Gen./Deputy Assistant Commissary General
* Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General
* Deputy Commissioner
* Deputy Judge Advocate [to Field Force]
* Deputy Superintendent of Revenue Service
* Deputy Surg.-Gen./Deputy Surgeon-General
* Director of Transport
* District Superintendent (Police)
* Div./Division
* Divisional Field Hospital
* Divisional Provost
* Divisional Transport
* Dressing Station [Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay Medical Departments]
* Driver
* Drum Major
* Drummer
* doing duty [serving with a Division, Regiment, Brigade, etc., on a temporary assignment]
* Ecclesiastical Department [British Army, Indian Army (Bengal, Madras, Bombay)]
* Engineer in Chief [R.E.]
* Engineer in Chief, Kurram Railway Survey [R.E.]
* Executive Commissariat Officer
* Executive Engineer, D.P. Works, State Railways [Executive Engineer, Department of Public Works, State Railways]
* Extra A.D.C./Extra Aide-de-Camp [to a superior officer]
* Farrier
* Farrier Maj./Farrier Major
* Farrier Sergt./Farrier Sergeant
* Fencing Instr./Fencing Instructor
* Field Engineer Park
* Field Hospital
* Field Hospital Transport
* Field Post Master
* Fife Major
* First Trumpeter
* Gen. List/General List [commanding Regt. or Division in a Presidentcy]
* Geological Survey of India
* Ghazni Field Force
* Gunner [R.A.]
* Head Clerk
* Head Intelligence Department
* Head of Political Department in Afghanistan
* Hon. Bde. Surg./Honarary Brigade Surgeon
* Hospital Asst./Hospital Assistant
* Hospital Apothecary
* Hospital Apprentice
* Hospital Bde. Surg./Hospital Brigade Surgeon
* Hospital Officer
* Hospital Sergt./Hospital Sergeant
* Hospital Surg.-Maj./Hospital Surgeon-Major
* Hyderabad Contingent
* Indian Medical Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Indian Medical Service
* Inspector Commissariat Department
* Inspector/Inspecting Vet. Surg./Inspector/Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon
* Instr. of Fencing/Instructor of Fencing
* Instr. of Musketry/Instructor of Musketry
* Intelligence Branch
* Interpreter
* Judge Advocate
* Junior Chaplain
* Kabul Field Force
* Kabul-Kandahar Field Force
* Kandahar Survey Department [R.E.]
* Khyber Bde. Field Force/Khyber Brigade Field Force
* Khyber Column
* Khyber Field Force
* Khyber Line
* Khyber Line Force
* Kurram Line
* Kurram Valley Column
* Kurram Valley Field Force
* Lance-Corpl./Lance-Corporal
* Lance-Sergt./Lance-Sergeant
* Lieut./Lieutenant
* Local [preceding rank temporarily held on duty]
* Local Lieut./Local Lieutenant
* Local Maj./Local Major
* Local Brig.-Gen./Local Brigadier-General
* Lt.-Col./Lieutenant-Colonel
* Lt.-Gen./Lieutenant-General
* Madras Artillery
* Madras Cavalry
* Madras Commissariat Depar./Madras Commissariat Department
* Madras Establishment
* Madras Medical Department
* Magazine Sergt./Magazine Sergeant [Ordnance Department]
* Maj./Major
* Maj.-Gen./Major-General
* Medical Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* North West [Frontier] Province Police [Transport Department]
* Northern/North Afghanistan Field Force
* Northern Afghanistan Field Park [R.E.]
* Office Clerk
* Officiating Agency Surg./Officiating Agancy Surgeon
* Officiating Apothecary
* Officiating Asst. Apothecary/Officiating Assistant Apothecary
* Officiating Asst. Commissary Gen./Officiating Assistant Commissary General
* Officiating Commandant
* Officiating Conductor [Commissariat Department]
* Officiating Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Quarter-Master-General
* Officiating Deputy Commissary General
* Officiating Deputy Surg.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Surgeon General
* Officiating Director
* Officiating Magazine Sergt./Officiating Magazine Sergeant
* Officiating Qr.-Mr./Officiating Quarter-Master
* Officiating Squadron Officer
* Officiating Sub Conductor/Officiating Subordinate Conductor
* Officiating Surg./Officiating Surgeon
* Officiating Superintendent Telegraph Department
* Officiating Surg.-Maj./ Officiating Surgeon-Major
* Officiating 2nd Class Apothecary
* Officiating Commandant
* Orderly
* Orderly Officer [serving a superior officer]
* Orderly Room Clerk
* Orderly Room Sergt./Orderly Room Sergeant
* Ordnance Department [of Division, Army]
* Ordnance Depot
* Ordnance Field Park
* Park Conductor
* Park Sergt./Park Sergeant [R.A.]
* Passed Hospital Apprentice
* Passed Hospital Asst./Passed Hospital Assistant
* Paymaster
* Paymaster Capt./Paymaster Captain
* Paymaster Lieut./Paymaster Lieutenant
* Paymaster Sergt./Paymaster Sergeant
* Permanent Conductor [Ordnance]
* Peshawar Valley Field Force
* Pioneer
* Pioneer Sergt./Pioneer Sergeant [R.E.]
* Pipe Major
* Piper
* Piper-Major
* Pishin Moveable Column
* Political Agent [followed by region, territory]
* Political Department, Southern India
* Political Officer
* Police Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Police Officer [to a Regt., Div., Force]
* Political Department
* Postmaster
* Principal Commissariat Officer
* Principal/Chief Commissariat Officer
* Principal Medical Officer [of a Field Force]
* Principal Superintendent of Stores [Military Stores Department]
* Principal Vet. Surg./Principal Veterinary Surgeon
* Private
* Probationary Sergt./Probationer Sergeant
* Probationary Squadron Officer
* Probationer [preceding Rank, Staff or Regt.]
* Provisional actg. Bombardier/Provisional acting Bombardier [ R.A.]
* Provisional Lance-Corpl./Provisional Lance-Corporal
* Provisional Lance-Sergt./Provisional Lance-Sergeant
* Provisional Sergt./Provisional Sergeant
* Provisionally [preceding or following Staff or Regt.]
* Provost Marshall
* Punjab Chiefs’ Contingent
* Punjab Line Force
* Qr.-Mr./Quarter-Master
* Qr.-Mr. Gen./Quarter-Master General
* Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Quarter-Master Sergeant
* Quetta Field Force
* R.A. Field Park/Royal Artillery Field Park
* Regt. Sergt.-Maj./Regimental Sergeant-Major
* Regt. Transport Officer/Regimental Transport Officer
* Remount Est./Remount Establishment
* Reserve Div./Reserve Division
* Reserve Officer
* Reserve Transport [Regimental Transport]
* Riding Est./Riding Establishment [R.A.]
* Riding Master
* Road Commandant
* Royal Cavalry
* Saddler Sergt./Saddler Sergeant
* Sappers and Miners [R.E. and Presidentcies]
* Senior Apothecary
* Senior Chaplain
* Senior Medical Officer
* Sergt./Sergeant
* Sergt. Collar Maker/Sergeant Collar Maker [also Collar Maker Sergeant]
* Sergt. Comdr. of Stores/Sergeant Commander of Stores
* Sergt. Commissariat Department [Sergeant with Commissariat Department]
* Sergt.-Farrier/Sergeant-Farrier
* Sergt. Instr. of Fencing/Sergeant Instructor of Fencing
* Sergt. Instr. of Musketry/Sergeant Instructor of Musketry
* Sergt.-Maj./Sergeant-Major
* Sergt. Master Tailor/Sergeant Master Tailor
* Sergt. Wheeler/Sergeant Wheeler [Artillery]
* Shoeing Smith
* Signal Corps
* Signaller
* Southern Afghanistan Field Force
* Squadron
* Squadron Commander
* Squadron Officer [Cavalry]
* Staff Officer
* Staff Paymaster
* Store Sergt./Store Sergeant [Ordnance Departments]
* Sub Asst. Commissary Gen./Subordinate Assistant Commissary General [Commissariat Department]
* Sub Conductor/Subordinate Conductor [followed by Department, Regiment, Force, Division, etc.]
* Sub Hospital Charge [followed by Section of Hospital]
* Sub Lieut./Subordinate Lieutenant
* Sub Medical Department [Subordinate Medical Department], Bengal, Madras, Bombay
* Superintendent [followed by branch, office, dept., etc.]
* Superintendent of Army Signalling
* Superintentent of Post Offices, Baluchistan
* Superintendent of Post Offices, Kabul
* Superintending {R.E.]
* Supertending Communications
* Suply Engineer [R.E.]
* Surg./Surgeon
* Surg.-Gen./Surgeon-General
* Surg.-Maj./Surgeon-Major
* Survey Department [Survey of India; staffed by civilians]
* Survey of India
* Telegraph Department
* Telegraph Operator
* Temporary Commissary [Ordnance]
* Temporary Conductor [Ordnance]
* Temporary Conductor Department [Ordnance]
* Temporary Magazine Sergt./Temporary Magazine Sergeant
* Temporary Sub Conductor/Temporary Subordinate Conductor [R.A, Ordnance.]
* Transport Department
* Transport Officer
* Transport Sergt./Transport Sergeant
* Transport Sergt.-Maj./Transport Sergeant-Major
* Transport Service
* Troop Sergt./Troop Sergeant
* Troop Sergt.-Maj./Troop Sergeant-Major
* Trooper
* Trumpet Maj./Trumpet Major
* Trumpeter
* Unattached List [commanding a regt.]
* Unpassed Hospital Apprentice
* Upper Kurram Valley Bde./Upper Kurram Valley Brigade
* Vet. Surg./Veterinary Surgeon
* Victualing Sergt./Victualing Sergeant [Commissariat Department]
* Warrant Officer
* Wheeler [Artillery]
* Wheeler Bombardier [Artillery]
* Wheeler Corpl./Wheeler Corporal [Artillery]
* Wheeler Sergt./Wheeler Sergeant [Artillery]
* Wing Commander [Queen’s Own Corps of Guides]

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* actg. Bombardier/acting Bombardier
* actg. Commandant/acting Commandant
* actg. Conductor/acting Conductor
* actg. Deputy Asst. Commissary Gen./acting Deputy Assistant Commissary General
* actg. Lance-Corpl./acting Lance-Corporal
* actg. Lance-Sergt./acting Lance-Sergeant
* actg. Magazine Sergt./acting Magazine Sergeant, Ordnance Department
* actg. Sergt./acting Sergeant
* actg. Sergt.-Maj./acting Sergeant-Major
* actg. Sub Conductor/acting Subordinate Conductor [Commassariat, Ordnance]
* Adjt./Adjutant
* Adjt.-Gen./Adjutant-General
* A.D.C./Aide-de-Camp
* Afghan Field Force
* Agency Surg. [Agency Surgeon]
* Agent
* Apothecary
* Apprentice Apothecary
* Armourer
* Armourer Sergt./Armourer Sergeant
* Armstrong Armourer
* Armstrong Armourer Sergt./Armstrong Armourer Sergeant
* Army Medical Department
* Army Signaller
* Army Veterinary Department
* Asst. Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan/Assistant Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan
* Asst. Adjt.-Gen./Assistant Adjutant-General
* Asst. Adjt.-Gen., Reserve List/Assistant Adjutant-General, Reserve List
* Asst. Agent/Assistant Agent [serving with C.S. superior officer in a region or territory]
* Asst. Apothecary/Assistant Apothecary
* Asst. Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establistment/Assistant Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establishment
* Asst. Commissary Gen./Assistant Commissary General
* Asst. Commissary of Ordnance/Assistant Commissary of Ordnance]
* Asst. Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner [geographical area]
* Asst. Controller Gen./Assistant Controller General
* Asst. Engineer/Assistant Engineer
* Asst. Field Engineer/Assistant Field Engineer {R.E.]
* Asst. Field Transport Officer/Assistant Field Transport Officer
* Asst. Political Officer/Assistant Political Officer [Civil Service]
* Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Assistant Quarter-Master General
* Asst. Superintendent/Assistant Superintent
* Asst. Superintendent, Bengal Police/Assistant Superintendent, Bengal Police
* Asst. Superintendent of Telegraph/Assistant Superintendent of Telegraph (Khyber Line)]
* Asst. Superintendent of Telegraphs Department/Assistant Superintenden,t Telegraph Department
* Asst. Superintendent of Transport/Assistant Superintendent of Transport
* Asst. Surg./Assistant Surgeon
* Attached [to a regiment, Brigade, or Department]
* Baluchistan Agency
* Band Major
* Band Master
* Band Master Sergt./Band Master Sergeant
* Band Sergt./Band Sergeant
* Barrack Sergt./Barrack Sergeant
* Base Hospital
* Batt./Battery
* Batt. Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant
* Batt. Sergt.-Maj./Battery Sergeant-Major
* Bazaar Sergt./Bazaar Sergeant
* Bde. Maj./Brigade Major
* Bde. Sergt./Brigade Sergeant
* Bde. Surg./Brigade Surgeon
* Bde. Transport Officer/Brigade Transport Officer
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bengal Cavalry
* Bengal Infantry
* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Police
* Bhopal Battn./Bhopal Battalion [Bombay Staff Corps]
* Bombardier
* Bombardier Collar Maker
* Bombardier Wheeler
* Bombay Cavalry
* Bombay Commissiariat Dept./Bombay Commissiariat Department
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bombay Infantry
* Bombay Medical Department
* Bombay Ordnance Department
* Brig.-Gen./Brigadier-General
* Bt./Brevet (preceding rank)
* Bugle Major
* Bugler
* Candahar State Railway
* Capt./Captain
* Carpenter
* Carriage Smith
* Cavalry Bde./Cavalry Brigade
* Chaplain [Wesleyan and Presbyterian Troops]
* Chaplain [Church of Scotland; Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment]
* Chief Commissariat Officer
* Chief Director of Transport
* Chief of the Staff [to Commander of Force, or Divivision]
* Chief of Staff of the Army of India
* Chief Political Officer
* Chief Political Officer, Northern and Eastern Afghanistan
* Cit./cited, citation, citations
* Clerk Orderly Room (see Orderly Room Clerk)
* Coast Brigade R.A./Coast Brigade Royal Artillery
* Col./Colonel
* Collar Maker
* Collar Maker Sergt./Collar Maker Sergeant
* Colour-Sergt./Colour-Sergeant
* Commandant
* Commanding [a regt.]
* Commissariat Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay; Division, Field Force]
* Commissariat Godowns
* Commissariat Sergt./Commissariat Sergeant
* Commissariat Stores
* Commissary Gen./Commissary General
* Commissary Subordinate
* Commissary of Ordnance
* Commissioner [attached to a Division; Civil Service Officer]
* Conductor [Ordnance Department; Commissariat Stores]
* Consulting Engineer, Government of India, State Railways
* Controller General of Supply and Transport
* Corpl./Corporal
* Corpl./Collar Maker/Corporal Collar Maker
* Corps of Armourers
* Corps of Sappers and Miners (Queen’s Own) [R.E.; Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Deputy Adjt. Gen./Deputy Adjutant General
* Deputy Asst. Adjt./Deputy Assistant Adjutant
* Deputy Asst. Commissary Gen./Deputy Assistant Commissary General
* Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General
* Deputy Commissioner
* Deputy Judge Advocate [to Field Force]
* Deputy Superintendent of Revenue Service
* Deputy Surg.-Gen./Deputy Surgeon-General
* Director of Transport
* District Superintendent (Police)
* Div./Division
* Divisional Field Hospital
* Divisional Provost
* Divisional Transport
* Dressing Station [Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay Medical Departments]
* Driver
* Drum Major
* Drummer
* doing duty [serving with a Division, Regiment, Brigade, etc., on a temporary assignment]
* Ecclesiastical Department [British Army, Indian Army (Bengal, Madras, Bombay)]
* Engineer in Chief [R.E.]
* Engineer in Chief, Kurram Railway Survey [R.E.]
* Executive Commissariat Officer
* Executive Engineer, D.P. Works, State Railways [Executive Engineer, Department of Public Works, State Railways]
* Extra A.D.C./Extra Aide-de-Camp [to a superior officer]
* Farrier
* Farrier Maj./Farrier Major
* Farrier Sergt./Farrier Sergeant
* Fencing Instr./Fencing Instructor
* Field Engineer Park
* Field Hospital
* Field Hospital Transport
* Field Post Master
* Fife Major
* First Trumpeter
* Gen. List/General List [commanding Regt. or Division in a Presidentcy]
* Geological Survey of India
* Ghazni Field Force
* Gunner [R.A.]
* Head Clerk
* Head Intelligence Department
* Head of Political Department in Afghanistan
* Hon. Bde. Surg./Honarary Brigade Surgeon
* Hospital Asst./Hospital Assistant
* Hospital Apothecary
* Hospital Apprentice
* Hospital Bde. Surg./Hospital Brigade Surgeon
* Hospital Officer
* Hospital Sergt./Hospital Sergeant
* Hospital Surg.-Maj./Hospital Surgeon-Major
* Hyderabad Contingent
* Indian Medical Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Indian Medical Service
* Inspector Commissariat Department
* Inspector/Inspecting Vet. Surg./Inspector/Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon
* Instr. of Fencing/Instructor of Fencing
* Instr. of Musketry/Instructor of Musketry
* Intelligence Branch
* Interpreter
* Judge Advocate
* Junior Chaplain
* Kabul Field Force
* Kabul-Kandahar Field Force
* Kandahar Survey Department [R.E.]
* Khyber Bde. Field Force/Khyber Brigade Field Force
* Khyber Column
* Khyber Field Force
* Khyber Line
* Khyber Line Force
* Kurram Line
* Kurram Valley Column
* Kurram Valley Field Force
* Lance-Corpl./Lance-Corporal
* Lance-Sergt./Lance-Sergeant
* Lieut./Lieutenant
* Local [preceding rank temporarily held on duty]
* Local Lieut./Local Lieutenant
* Local Maj./Local Major
* Local Brig.-Gen./Local Brigadier-General
* Lt.-Col./Lieutenant-Colonel
* Lt.-Gen./Lieutenant-General
* Madras Artillery
* Madras Cavalry
* Madras Commissariat Depar./Madras Commissariat Department
* Madras Establishment
* Madras Medical Department
* Magazine Sergt./Magazine Sergeant [Ordnance Department]
* Maj./Major
* Maj.-Gen./Major-General
* Medical Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* North West [Frontier] Province Police [Transport Department]
* Northern/North Afghanistan Field Force
* Northern Afghanistan Field Park [R.E.]
* Office Clerk
* Officiating Agency Surg./Officiating Agancy Surgeon
* Officiating Apothecary
* Officiating Asst. Apothecary/Officiating Assistant Apothecary
* Officiating Asst. Commissary Gen./Officiating Assistant Commissary General
* Officiating Commandant
* Officiating Conductor [Commissariat Department]
* Officiating Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Quarter-Master-General
* Officiating Deputy Commissary General
* Officiating Deputy Surg.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Surgeon General
* Officiating Director
* Officiating Magazine Sergt./Officiating Magazine Sergeant
* Officiating Qr.-Mr./Officiating Quarter-Master
* Officiating Squadron Officer
* Officiating Sub Conductor/Officiating Subordinate Conductor
* Officiating Surg./Officiating Surgeon
* Officiating Superintendent Telegraph Department
* Officiating Surg.-Maj./ Officiating Surgeon-Major
* Officiating 2nd Class Apothecary
* Officiating Commandant
* Orderly
* Orderly Officer [serving a superior officer]
* Orderly Room Clerk
* Orderly Room Sergt./Orderly Room Sergeant
* Ordnance Department [of Division, Army]
* Ordnance Depot
* Ordnance Field Park
* Park Conductor
* Park Sergt./Park Sergeant [R.A.]
* Passed Hospital Apprentice
* Passed Hospital Asst./Passed Hospital Assistant
* Paymaster
* Paymaster Capt./Paymaster Captain
* Paymaster Lieut./Paymaster Lieutenant
* Paymaster Sergt./Paymaster Sergeant
* Permanent Conductor [Ordnance]
* Peshawar Valley Field Force
* Pioneer
* Pioneer Sergt./Pioneer Sergeant [R.E.]
* Pipe Major
* Piper
* Piper-Major
* Pishin Moveable Column
* Political Agent [followed by region, territory]
* Political Department, Southern India
* Political Officer
* Police Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
* Police Officer [to a Regt., Div., Force]
* Political Department
* Postmaster
* Principal Commissariat Officer
* Principal/Chief Commissariat Officer
* Principal Medical Officer [of a Field Force]
* Principal Superintendent of Stores [Military Stores Department]
* Principal Vet. Surg./Principal Veterinary Surgeon
* Private
* Probationary Sergt./Probationer Sergeant
* Probationary Squadron Officer
* Probationer [preceding Rank, Staff or Regt.]
* Provisional actg. Bombardier/Provisional acting Bombardier [ R.A.]
* Provisional Lance-Corpl./Provisional Lance-Corporal
* Provisional Lance-Sergt./Provisional Lance-Sergeant
* Provisional Sergt./Provisional Sergeant
* Provisionally [preceding or following Staff or Regt.]
* Provost Marshall
* Punjab Chiefs’ Contingent
* Punjab Line Force
* Qr.-Mr./Quarter-Master
* Qr.-Mr. Gen./Quarter-Master General
* Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Quarter-Master Sergeant
* Quetta Field Force
* R.A. Field Park/Royal Artillery Field Park
* Regt. Sergt.-Maj./Regimental Sergeant-Major
* Regt. Transport Officer/Regimental Transport Officer
* Remount Est./Remount Establishment
* Reserve Div./Reserve Division
* Reserve Officer
* Reserve Transport [Regimental Transport]
* Riding Est./Riding Establishment [R.A.]
* Riding Master
* Road Commandant
* Royal Cavalry
* Saddler Sergt./Saddler Sergeant
* Sappers and Miners [R.E. and Presidentcies]
* Senior Apothecary
* Senior Chaplain
* Senior Medical Officer
* Sergt./Sergeant
* Sergt. Collar Maker/Sergeant Collar Maker [also Collar Maker Sergeant]
* Sergt. Comdr. of Stores/Sergeant Commander of Stores
* Sergt. Commissariat Department [Sergeant with Commissariat Department]
* Sergt.-Farrier/Sergeant-Farrier
* Sergt. Instr. of Fencing/Sergeant Instructor of Fencing
* Sergt. Instr. of Musketry/Sergeant Instructor of Musketry
* Sergt.-Maj./Sergeant-Major
* Sergt. Master Tailor/Sergeant Master Tailor
* Sergt. Wheeler/Sergeant Wheeler [Artillery]
* Shoeing Smith
* Signal Corps
* Signaller
* Southern Afghanistan Field Force
* Squadron
* Squadron Commander
* Squadron Officer [Cavalry]
* Staff Officer
* Staff Paymaster
* Store Sergt./Store Sergeant [Ordnance Departments]
* Sub Asst. Commissary Gen./Subordinate Assistant Commissary General [Commissariat Department]
* Sub Conductor/Subordinate Conductor [followed by Department, Regiment, Force, Division, etc.]
* Sub Hospital Charge [followed by Section of Hospital]
* Sub Lieut./Subordinate Lieutenant
* Sub Medical Department [Subordinate Medical Department], Bengal, Madras, Bombay
* Superintendent [followed by branch, office, dept., etc.]
* Superintendent of Army Signalling
* Superintentent of Post Offices, Baluchistan
* Superintendent of Post Offices, Kabul
* Superintending {R.E.]
* Supertending Communications
* Suply Engineer [R.E.]
* Surg./Surgeon
* Surg.-Gen./Surgeon-General
* Surg.-Maj./Surgeon-Major
* Survey Department [Survey of India; staffed by civilians]
* Survey of India
* Telegraph Department
* Telegraph Operator
* Temporary Commissary [Ordnance]
* Temporary Conductor [Ordnance]
* Temporary Conductor Department [Ordnance]
* Temporary Magazine Sergt./Temporary Magazine Sergeant
* Temporary Sub Conductor/Temporary Subordinate Conductor [R.A, Ordnance.]
* Transport Department
* Transport Officer
* Transport Sergt./Transport Sergeant
* Transport Sergt.-Maj./Transport Sergeant-Major
* Transport Service
* Troop Sergt./Troop Sergeant
* Troop Sergt.-Maj./Troop Sergeant-Major
* Trooper
* Trumpet Maj./Trumpet Major
* Trumpeter
* Unattached List [commanding a regt.]
* Unpassed Hospital Apprentice
* Upper Kurram Valley Bde./Upper Kurram Valley Brigade
* Vet. Surg./Veterinary Surgeon
* Victualing Sergt./Victualing Sergeant [Commissariat Department]
* Warrant Officer
* Wheeler [Artillery]
* Wheeler Bombardier [Artillery]
* Wheeler Corpl./Wheeler Corporal [Artillery]
* Wheeler Sergt./Wheeler Sergeant [Artillery]
* Wing Commander [Queen’s Own Corps of Guides]

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* acc. accession/according [to]
* actg. acting
* A.P.D. Army Pay Department
* Appr. Apprentice
* Asst. Assistant
* b. buried/burial
* B&S Bourne and Shepherd
* Batt. Battery
* Battn. Battalion
* B.C.S. Bengal Civil Service
* B.D. Bachelor of Divinity
* Bde. Brigade
* bet. between
* Biog. Biography/Biographical
* Bo. F. F. Bombay Frontier Force
* Bo.S.C. Bombay Staff Corps
* B.S.C. Bengal Staff Corps
* C.C. Commander in Chief
* Chr. Christian (as in forenames)
* cit. cited/citation/citations
* Co. Company
* Com. Commissary/Commissariat
* Comm. Communication
* C.S. Civil Service (sometimes preceded or followed by Presidency)
* D. Despatch(es)
* d. died/death
* D.P.W. Works Department of Public Works
* Div. Division
* docs. Documents
* ed. edited/edition
* Ed. Editor
* Est. Establishment
* fol. following
* frontis. frontispiece
* G.O. General Order
* Hon. before rank= Honourary; before Christian name= Honourable
* Hosp. Hospital
* H.M. Her Majesty's
* h.p. half pay
* ident. identical/identity/identification
* ILN Illustrated London News
* IMI Indian Monumental Inscriptions (see in Sources)
* incl. including/included
* Inf. Infantry
* init. initial (as in names)
* IOL&R India Office Library and Records (British Library, India and Oriental Collection)
* k. killed
* KIA killed in action
* l. left
* L.I. Light Infantry
* M.B. Bachelor of Medicine
* M.D. Doctor of Medicine
* M.F.F. Madras Frontier Force
* M.I. Monumental Inscription
* Mil. Military
* misc. Miscellaneous
* Mr. Mister
* M..S.C. Madras Staff Corps
* Mtn. Mountain
* Mtn. Batt. Mountain Battery
* n./ns. note/notes
* NAM National Army Museum (when not followed by neg. no., or acc. no. and album page containing photo, this data was unknown or unavailable)
* neg. negative (photo)
* N.I. Native Infantry
* N.L.I. Native (Light) Infantry (irregular use)
* no./nos. number/numbers
* No. Number (as of Artillery Batt.)
* ORS Orderly Room Sergeant
* p./pp. page/pages
* P.F.F. Punjab Frontier Force/Punjab Field Force
* p./pp. page/pages
* ph. photograph
* pl./pls. plate/plates
* P.M.O. Principal Medical Officer
* pl./pls. plate/plates
* poss. possibly/possible
* priv. private
* prob. probably/probable
* pub./pubs. published/publications
* P.W.0. Prince of Wales's Own (irregular use)
* r. right
* R.A. Royal Artillery
* RC Roman Catholic
* R.E. Royal Engineers
* ref./refs. reference/references
* Regt. Regiment/Regimental
* REI Royal Engineers Institution, Chatham
* rec’d Received
* ret’d Retired
* Rev. Reverend
* R.H.A. Royal Horse Artillery (sometimes R.[H.]A. to indicate an R.A. officer who served during the period in either, or both)
* S.A.F.F. Southern Afghanistan Field Force
* S.F.F. Sind Frontier Force
* Sub Subordinate/Sub Ordinate
* trans. transferred [to or from another Brigade, Regiment, Department]
* uncert. uncertain
* unident. unidentified/unidentifiable
* unrec. unrecorded
* V.C. Victoria Cross
* w. wounds/wounded

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The Bibliography is neither a general, nor a selected, listing of sources relating to the history of the Second Afghan War. Such bibliographies are contained in histories of the war and in the many memoirs written by participants and biographies of officers who served in Afghanistan during the war. These biographies, diaries and personal memoirs appear in the present list as annotations to the individuals to whom they relate and are not included in the Bibliography. The following sources represent only those used in the compiling of the present work.

* Ascoli, David. A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983. London: Harrap, 1983
* Askwith, General W. N., comp. List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Year 1716 to the Year 1899. To Which are Added the Notes on Officers’ Services, Collected by Gen. W.N. Askwith. {4th and best edition of Kane’s List)
* Blue Book: East India -- British Officers in Afghanistan. No. 358. London, 1879 [22pp., British Officers in Indian Army regts., incl. casualty list and notes on services]
* Blue Book: East India -- Officers Present with Native Regiments in Afghanistan. No. 141. London, 1880 [27pp., arranged by date, name of regt., original station, rank]
* Blue Book: Purchase Officers Killed in Action in Afghanistan and South Africa. No. 197. London, 1880
* Buzzell, Nora, comp. and researched, The Register of the Victoria Cross. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cheltenham, 1988 [see also Register ...]
* Cambridge, The Marquess of, "Notes on the Armies of India," Part I, JSAHR, vol. 47, No. 189 (1969) pp. 23-32; Part II, vol. 47, No. 190 (1969) pp. 65-85; Part III, vol. 47, No. 192 (1969) pp. 194-210; Part IV, vol. 48, No. 193 (1970) pp. 35-45; Part V, vol. 48, No. 194 (1970) pp. 105-108; part Vl, vol. 48, No. 195 (1970) pp. 167-181
* Camps, O.F.M., Arnulf, "Mill Hill Missionaries in Afghanistan from 1879 until 1881 and Their Stay in Quetta, Baluchistan, until 1883," ZMG [Zeitschrift der Missionariens Gesellschaft ?] 3, Heft 1 (1967) pp. 13-25
* Cane, Rev. Alfred Granger, "The Kandahar Letters of the Reverend Alfred Cane," ed. by Brian Robson, JSAHR, vol. 69, no. 279 (1991) pp. 146-60, vol.. 69, no. 280 (1991) pp. 206-220
* Chowkidar, [Journal of the] British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (see BACSA in Abbreviations)
* Corrie, Lieut.-Colonel W.T., "A Devonshire Regiments' Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881," North Devon Journal, 3 March 188l, p. 2e. Reprinted: The Devon Family Historian, No. 31 (July 1984) pp. 23-24, No. 32 (October 1984) p. 15
* Creagh, Sir O'Moore, and E.M. Humphris, eds., The Victoria Cross 1856-1920: A Complete Record of the Recipients of the Victoria Cross from Its Institution in 1856, to the 29th October, 1920 with Descriptions of the Deeds and Services for Which the Award Was Given and with Many Biographical and Other Details. Polstead, Suffolk: J.B. Hayward & Son, 1985 (reprint of the edition originally published 1920)
* Ellis, Colonel W.V., comp., Kandahar Field Force, Afghanistan, 1879-80. Key to the Engraving, with Names of Officers. Also Short Account of the Occupation of Kandahar and Advance to Kabul, together with Official Despatches. Bristol: E.S. & A. Robinson, Ltd., 1919 [containing small frontispiece "from photogravure engraving by H.J. Whitlock & Sons, Birmingham," with a number against each portrait (181) in the larger 68 cms. by 85 cms. (ca. 27 by 34 inches) photogravure published separately, and with a list of the 181 officers appearing in the photo montage; many of the portraits are from times subsequent to the date of the subjects' service in the Second Afghan War]
* Farmer, John S. The Regimental Records of the British Army: a Historical Résumé Chronologically Arranged of Titles, Campaigns, Honours, Uniforms, Facings, Badges, Nicknames, Etc. Reprinted ed., Bristol: Crécy Books, 1984
* Farrington, Anthony, comp. The Second Afghan War 1878-1880: Casualty Roll. London: The London Stamp Exchange Ltd., 1986
* Flinders, Trumpeter J.J. [John James], E.B. R.H.A. Diary of the March of E. Batterey B. Brigade R.H.A. From Kirkee to Afghanistan. From 28th January to 27th December 1880. Bangalore: W.W. Gaunt Printer, -- Albion Press, 1883
* Gregson, Rev. J. Gelson. Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp, Cabul. An Account of Temperance Work among our Soldiers in the Cabul Field Force. London: Elliot Stock, 1883
* Hammond, James, "The East Lancs in Afghanistan." The Military Chest, vol. 5, no. 4 (1986) p. 6
* Hart, Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1879 ... Corrected to the 30th December, l878. London: John Murray, 1879
* Hart, the late Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1880, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1879. London: John Murray, 1880
** The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1881, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1880. London: John Murray, l88l
** The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1882, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1881. London: John Murray, 1882
* Heathcote, T.A. The Indian Army. The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. Historic Armies and Navies. London: David Charles, Newton Abbott, 1974
* Irving, Miles, and George William de Rhé-Philipe. A List Of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs or Monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan. Indian Monumental Inscriptions. vol. II. parts 1 and 2. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1910- 1912. [very few from Afghanistan]
* Johnston, Colonel William. Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army who have served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps 20 June 1727 to 23 June 1898. Ed. by Lt.- Col. Harry A.L. Howell. Aberdeen, 1917 [638pp.]
* Le Messurier, Major [Augustus], R.E. Kandahar in 1879; being the Diary of Major Le Messurier, R.E., Reprinted, with Corrections & Additions, from the Royal Engineers' Journal. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1880
* MacGregor, Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Metcalfe. War in Afghanistan. The Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor. Ed. by William Trousdale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985
* Medal Rolls. The British Library, India Office India and Oriental Collections. Library and Records. Records L/MIL/5/110 - L/MIL/5/124 [annotated MS records containing the names of all military (and some civilians) personnel entitled to receive The Second Afghan War Medal by virtue of their having crossed the frontier in service connected with the prosecution of the war; disciplinary and/or penal forfeits antedating the compilation of these lists are not included; some, usually officers, spent a few hours, or minutes accross the line, and thus claimed their right to request The Second Afghan War Medal; officers probably received it, lowly soldiers did not.]
* Mitford, Major R.C.W., To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade. 2nd ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881
* Mollo, Boris. The Indian Army. Poole: Blandford Press, 1981
* Parry, D.H., Britain's Roll of Glory, or The Victoria Cross, Its Heroes and their Valour ... London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1895
* Register of the Victoria Cross, The, rev'd and enl'd ed., comp. and researched Bora Buzzell. Cheltenham: This England Books, 1988
* Robson, Brian. The Road to Kabul. The Second Afghan War 1878-1881. London; Arms and Armour Press, 1986
* Scott Moncrieff, Major General Sir George, Canals and Campaigns, An Engineer Officer in India 1877-1885. BACSA Books, Putney, London: BACSA, 1987
* Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880. Compiled from Official and Private Sources. 2 vols. (Historical [SH] and Biographical [SB]) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882
* Swinson, Arthur, ed. A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. London: The Archive Press Ltd., 1972
* Templer, Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templar and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. The Army in India 1850-1914: A Photographic Record 1850-1914. London: Hutchinson, 1968
* Thackeray, Col. Sir Edward Talbot. Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers. London, 1900
** Views of Kabul and Environs from Pictures Taken by the Photograph School of the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners, with a short Description of the City and buildings and Historical Sketch. London: Strangeways, 1881
* Van der Klugt, Rev. James, and Rev. Michael Conroy. The Opening Door. Mill Hill Mission to Afghanistan: 1878-1882. History of the Diocese of Rawalpindi: Part 1. Rawalpindi: Pastoral Institute Publication Centre. Multan, 1979
* [Willasey-Wilsey, T.A.] The British Cemetery, Kabul [transcriptions of, and brief commentaries on, the ten Anglo-Afghan war memorial stones in the Qabr Gorah, with two-page introduction, dated 29th August 1993; copy in BACSA file at the British Library, Indian and Oriental Collections]
* Williams, William Hamilton, Diary by W.H. Williams, R.H.A., Part 2: India and Afghanistan (1880). MS diary, National Army Museum, acc. no. 7505-68
* Yate, Major Charles E., Northern Afghanistan, or Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888

Bibliography

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The Bibliography is neither a general, nor a selected, listing of sources relating to the history of the Second Afghan War. Such bibliographies are contained in histories of the war and in the many memoirs written by participants and biographies of officers who served in Afghanistan during the war. These biographies, diaries and personal memoirs appear in the present list as annotations to the individuals to whom they relate and are not included in the Bibliography. The following sources represent only those used in the compiling of the present work.

* Ascoli, David. A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983. London: Harrap, 1983
* Askwith, General W. N., comp. List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Year 1716 to the Year 1899. To Which are Added the Notes on Officers’ Services, Collected by Gen. W.N. Askwith. {4th and best edition of Kane’s List)
* Blue Book: East India -- British Officers in Afghanistan. No. 358. London, 1879 [22pp., British Officers in Indian Army regts., incl. casualty list and notes on services]
* Blue Book: East India -- Officers Present with Native Regiments in Afghanistan. No. 141. London, 1880 [27pp., arranged by date, name of regt., original station, rank]
* Blue Book: Purchase Officers Killed in Action in Afghanistan and South Africa. No. 197. London, 1880
* Buzzell, Nora, comp. and researched, The Register of the Victoria Cross. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cheltenham, 1988 [see also Register ...]
* Cambridge, The Marquess of, "Notes on the Armies of India," Part I, JSAHR, vol. 47, No. 189 (1969) pp. 23-32; Part II, vol. 47, No. 190 (1969) pp. 65-85; Part III, vol. 47, No. 192 (1969) pp. 194-210; Part IV, vol. 48, No. 193 (1970) pp. 35-45; Part V, vol. 48, No. 194 (1970) pp. 105-108; part Vl, vol. 48, No. 195 (1970) pp. 167-181
* Camps, O.F.M., Arnulf, "Mill Hill Missionaries in Afghanistan from 1879 until 1881 and Their Stay in Quetta, Baluchistan, until 1883," ZMG [Zeitschrift der Missionariens Gesellschaft ?] 3, Heft 1 (1967) pp. 13-25
* Cane, Rev. Alfred Granger, "The Kandahar Letters of the Reverend Alfred Cane," ed. by Brian Robson, JSAHR, vol. 69, no. 279 (1991) pp. 146-60, vol.. 69, no. 280 (1991) pp. 206-220
* Chowkidar, [Journal of the] British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (see BACSA in Abbreviations)
* Corrie, Lieut.-Colonel W.T., "A Devonshire Regiments' Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881," North Devon Journal, 3 March 188l, p. 2e. Reprinted: The Devon Family Historian, No. 31 (July 1984) pp. 23-24, No. 32 (October 1984) p. 15
* Creagh, Sir O'Moore, and E.M. Humphris, eds., The Victoria Cross 1856-1920: A Complete Record of the Recipients of the Victoria Cross from Its Institution in 1856, to the 29th October, 1920 with Descriptions of the Deeds and Services for Which the Award Was Given and with Many Biographical and Other Details. Polstead, Suffolk: J.B. Hayward & Son, 1985 (reprint of the edition originally published 1920)
* Ellis, Colonel W.V., comp., Kandahar Field Force, Afghanistan, 1879-80. Key to the Engraving, with Names of Officers. Also Short Account of the Occupation of Kandahar and Advance to Kabul, together with Official Despatches. Bristol: E.S. & A. Robinson, Ltd., 1919 [containing small frontispiece "from photogravure engraving by H.J. Whitlock & Sons, Birmingham," with a number against each portrait (181) in the larger 68 cms. by 85 cms. (ca. 27 by 34 inches) photogravure published separately, and with a list of the 181 officers appearing in the photo montage; many of the portraits are from times subsequent to the date of the subjects' service in the Second Afghan War]
* Farmer, John S. The Regimental Records of the British Army: a Historical Résumé Chronologically Arranged of Titles, Campaigns, Honours, Uniforms, Facings, Badges, Nicknames, Etc. Reprinted ed., Bristol: Crécy Books, 1984
* Farrington, Anthony, comp. The Second Afghan War 1878-1880: Casualty Roll. London: The London Stamp Exchange Ltd., 1986
* Flinders, Trumpeter J.J. [John James], E.B. R.H.A. Diary of the March of E. Batterey B. Brigade R.H.A. From Kirkee to Afghanistan. From 28th January to 27th December 1880. Bangalore: W.W. Gaunt Printer, -- Albion Press, 1883
* Gregson, Rev. J. Gelson. Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp, Cabul. An Account of Temperance Work among our Soldiers in the Cabul Field Force. London: Elliot Stock, 1883
* Hammond, James, "The East Lancs in Afghanistan." The Military Chest, vol. 5, no. 4 (1986) p. 6
* Hart, Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1879 ... Corrected to the 30th December, l878. London: John Murray, 1879
* Hart, the late Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1880, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1879. London: John Murray, 1880
* __________ The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1881, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1880. London: John Murray, l88l
* __________ The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1882, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1881. London: John Murray, 1882
* Heathcote, T.A. The Indian Army. The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. Historic Armies and Navies. London: David Charles, Newton Abbott, 1974
* Irving, Miles, and George William de Rhé-Philipe. A List Of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs or Monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan. Indian Monumental Inscriptions. vol. II. parts 1 and 2. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1910- 1912. [very few from Afghanistan]
* Johnston, Colonel William. Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army who have served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps 20 June 1727 to 23 June 1898. Ed. by Lt.- Col. Harry A.L. Howell. Aberdeen, 1917 [638pp.]
* Le Messurier, Major [Augustus], R.E. Kandahar in 1879; being the Diary of Major Le Messurier, R.E., Reprinted, with Corrections & Additions, from the Royal Engineers' Journal. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1880
* MacGregor, Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Metcalfe. War in Afghanistan. The Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor. Ed. by William Trousdale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985
* Medal Rolls. The British Library, India Office India and Oriental Collections. Library and Records. Records L/MIL/5/110 - L/MIL/5/124 [annotated MS records containing the names of all military (and some civilians) personnel entitled to receive The Second Afghan War Medal by virtue of their having crossed the frontier in service connected with the prosecution of the war; disciplinary and/or penal forfeits antedating the compilation of these lists are not included; some, usually officers, spent a few hours, or minutes accross the line, and thus claimed their right to request The Second Afghan War Medal; officers probably received it, lowly soldiers did not.]
* Mitford, Major R.C.W., To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade. 2nd ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881
* Mollo, Boris. The Indian Army. Poole: Blandford Press, 1981
* Parry, D.H., Britain's Roll of Glory, or The Victoria Cross, Its Heroes and their Valour ... London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1895
* Register of the Victoria Cross, The, rev'd and enl'd ed., comp. and researched Bora Buzzell. Cheltenham: This England Books, 1988
* Robson, Brian. The Road to Kabul. The Second Afghan War 1878-1881. London; Arms and Armour Press, 1986
* Scott Moncrieff, Major General Sir George, Canals and Campaigns, An Engineer Officer in India 1877-1885. BACSA Books, Putney, London: BACSA, 1987
* Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880. Compiled from Official and Private Sources. 2 vols. (Historical [SH] and Biographical [SB]) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882
* Swinson, Arthur, ed. A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. London: The Archive Press Ltd., 1972
* Templer, Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templar and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. The Army in India 1850-1914: A Photographic Record 1850-1914. London: Hutchinson, 1968
* Thackeray, Col. Sir Edward Talbot. Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers. London, 1900
* _______ Views of Kabul and Environs from Pictures Taken by the Photograph School of the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners, with a short Description of the City and buildings and Historical Sketch. London: Strangeways, 1881
* Van der Klugt, Rev. James, and Rev. Michael Conroy. The Opening Door. Mill Hill Mission to Afghanistan: 1878-1882. History of the Diocese of Rawalpindi: Part 1. Rawalpindi: Pastoral Institute Publication Centre. Multan, 1979
* [Willasey-Wilsey, T.A.] The British Cemetery, Kabul [transcriptions of, and brief commentaries on, the ten Anglo-Afghan war memorial stones in the Qabr Gorah, with two-page introduction, dated 29th August 1993; copy in BACSA file at the British Library, Indian and Oriental Collections]
* Williams, William Hamilton, Diary by W.H. Williams, R.H.A., Part 2: India and Afghanistan (1880). MS diary, National Army Museum, acc. no. 7505-68
* Yate, Major Charles E., Northern Afghanistan, or Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888

Bibliography

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The Bibliography is neither a general, nor a selected, listing of sources relating to the history of the Second Afghan War. Such bibliographies are contained in histories of the war and in the many memoirs written by participants and biographies of officers who served in Afghanistan during the war. These biographies, diaries and personal memoirs appear in the present list as annotations to the individuals to whom they relate and are not included in the Bibliography. The following sources represent only those used in the compiling of the present work.

Ascoli, David. A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983. London: Harrap, 1983

Askwith, General W. N., comp. List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Year 1716 to the Year 1899. To Which are Added the Notes on Officers’ Services, Collected by Gen. W.N. Askwith. {4th and best edition of Kane’s List)

Blue Book: East India -- British Officers in Afghanistan. No. 358. London, 1879 [22pp., British Officers in Indian Army regts., incl. casualty list and notes on services]

Blue Book: East India -- Officers Present with Native Regiments in Afghanistan. No. 141. London, 1880 [27pp., arranged by date, name of regt., original station, rank]

Blue Book: Purchase Officers Killed in Action in Afghanistan and South Africa. No. 197. London, 1880
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Buzzell, Nora, comp. and researched, The Register of the Victoria Cross. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cheltenham, 1988 [see also Register ...]

Cambridge, The Marquess of, "Notes on the Armies of India," Part I, JSAHR, vol. 47, No. 189 (1969) pp. 23-32; Part II, vol. 47, No. 190 (1969) pp. 65-85; Part III, vol. 47, No. 192 (1969) pp. 194-210; Part IV, vol. 48, No. 193 (1970) pp. 35-45; Part V, vol. 48, No. 194 (1970) pp. 105-108; part Vl, vol. 48, No. 195 (1970) pp. 167-181

Camps, O.F.M., Arnulf, "Mill Hill Missionaries in Afghanistan from 1879 until 1881 and Their Stay in Quetta, Baluchistan, until 1883," ZMG [Zeitschrift der Missionariens Gesellschaft ?] 3, Heft 1 (1967) pp. 13-25

Cane, Rev. Alfred Granger, "The Kandahar Letters of the Reverend Alfred Cane," ed. by Brian Robson, JSAHR, vol. 69, no. 279 (1991) pp. 146-60, vol.. 69, no. 280 (1991) pp. 206-220

Chowkidar, [Journal of the] British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (see BACSA in Abbreviations)

Corrie, Lieut.-Colonel W.T., "A Devonshire Regiments' Deathroll, Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, 22nd January 1881," North Devon Journal, 3 March 188l, p. 2e. Reprinted: The Devon Family Historian, No. 31 (July 1984) pp. 23-24, No. 32 (October 1984) p. 15

Creagh, Sir O'Moore, and E.M. Humphris, eds., The Victoria Cross 1856-1920: A Complete Record of the Recipients of the Victoria Cross from Its Institution in 1856, to the 29th October, 1920 with Descriptions of the Deeds and Services for Which the Award Was Given and with Many Biographical and Other Details. Polstead, Suffolk: J.B. Hayward & Son, 1985 (reprint of the edition originally published 1920)

Ellis, Colonel W.V., comp., Kandahar Field Force, Afghanistan, 1879-80. Key to the Engraving, with Names of Officers. Also Short Account of the Occupation of Kandahar and Advance to Kabul, together with Official Despatches. Bristol: E.S. & A. Robinson, Ltd., 1919 [containing small frontispiece "from photogravure engraving by H.J. Whitlock & Sons, Birmingham," with a number against each portrait (181) in the larger 68 cms. by 85 cms. (ca. 27 by 34 inches) photogravure published separately, and with a list of the 181 officers appearing in the photo montage; many of the portraits are from times subsequent to the date of the subjects' service in the Second Afghan War]

Farmer, John S. The Regimental Records of the British Army: a Historical Résumé Chronologically Arranged of Titles, Campaigns, Honours, Uniforms, Facings, Badges, Nicknames, Etc. Reprinted ed., Bristol: Crécy Books, 1984

Farrington, Anthony, comp. The Second Afghan War 1878-1880: Casualty Roll. London: The London Stamp Exchange Ltd., 1986

Flinders, Trumpeter J.J. [John James], E.B. R.H.A. Diary of the March of E. Batterey B. Brigade R.H.A. From Kirkee to Afghanistan. From 28th January to 27th December 1880. Bangalore: W.W. Gaunt Printer, -- Albion Press, 1883

Gregson, Rev. J. Gelson. Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp, Cabul. An Account of Temperance Work among our Soldiers in the Cabul Field Force. London: Elliot Stock, 1883

Hammond, James, "The East Lancs in Afghanistan." The Military Chest, vol. 5, no. 4 (1986) p. 6

Hart, Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1879 ... Corrected to the 30th December, l878. London: John Murray, 1879

Hart, the late Lieutenant General Henry George. The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1880, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1879. London: John Murray, 1880

__________ The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1881, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1880. London: John Murray, l88l

__________ The Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List, for 1882, ed. by his son ... Corrected to the 31st December, 1881. London: John Murray, 1882

Heathcote, T.A. The Indian Army. The Garrison of British Imperial India 1822-1922. Historic Armies and Navies. London: David Charles, Newton Abbott, 1974

Irving, Miles, and George William de Rhé-Philipe. A List Of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs or Monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan. Indian Monumental Inscriptions. vol. II. parts 1 and 2. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1910- 1912. [very few from Afghanistan]

Johnston, Colonel William. Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army who have served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps 20 June 1727 to 23 June 1898. Ed. by Lt.- Col. Harry A.L. Howell. Aberdeen, 1917 [638pp.]

Le Messurier, Major [Augustus], R.E. Kandahar in 1879; being the Diary of Major Le Messurier, R.E., Reprinted, with Corrections & Additions, from the Royal Engineers' Journal. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1880

MacGregor, Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Metcalfe. War in Afghanistan. The Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor. Ed. by William Trousdale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985

Medal Rolls. The British Library, India Office India and Oriental Collections. Library and Records. Records L/MIL/5/110 - L/MIL/5/124 [annotated MS records containing the names of all military (and some civilians) personnel entitled to receive The Second Afghan War Medal by virtue of their having crossed the frontier in service connected with the prosecution of the war; disciplinary and/or penal forfeits antedating the compilation of these lists are not included; some, usually officers, spent a few hours, or minutes accross the line, and thus claimed their right to request The Second Afghan War Medal; officers probably received it, lowly soldiers did not.]

Mitford, Major R.C.W., To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade. 2nd ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1881

Mollo, Boris. The Indian Army. Poole: Blandford Press, 1981

Parry, D.H., Britain's Roll of Glory, or The Victoria Cross, Its Heroes and their Valour ... London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1895

Register of the Victoria Cross, The, rev'd and enl'd ed., comp. and researched Bora Buzzell. Cheltenham: This England Books, 1988

Robson, Brian. The Road to Kabul. The Second Afghan War 1878-1881. London; Arms and Armour Press, 1986

Scott Moncrieff, Major General Sir George, Canals and Campaigns, An Engineer Officer in India 1877-1885. BACSA Books, Putney, London: BACSA, 1987

Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880. Compiled from Official and Private Sources. 2 vols. (Historical [SH] and Biographical [SB]) London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882

Swinson, Arthur, ed. A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. London: The Archive Press Ltd., 1972

Templer, Field-Marshal Sir Gerald Templar and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. The Army in India 1850-1914: A Photographic Record 1850-1914. London: Hutchinson, 1968

Thackeray, Col. Sir Edward Talbot. Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers. London, 1900

_______ Views of Kabul and Environs from Pictures Taken by the Photograph School of the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners, with a short Description of the City and buildings and Historical Sketch. London: Strangeways, 1881

Van der Klugt, Rev. James, and Rev. Michael Conroy. The Opening Door. Mill Hill Mission to Afghanistan: 1878-1882. History of the Diocese of Rawalpindi: Part 1. Rawalpindi: Pastoral Institute Publication Centre. Multan, 1979

[Willasey-Wilsey, T.A.] The British Cemetery, Kabul [transcriptions of, and brief commentaries on, the ten Anglo-Afghan war memorial stones in the Qabr Gorah, with two-page introduction, dated 29th August 1993; copy in BACSA file at the British Library, Indian and Oriental Collections]

Williams, William Hamilton, Diary by W.H. Williams, R.H.A., Part 2: India and Afghanistan (1880). MS diary, National Army Museum, acc. no. 7505-68

Yate, Major Charles E., Northern Afghanistan, or Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888

Source Abbreviations

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In most cases the surname of the author is used as the abbreviated reference to his work, and this is followed by a page number. These are easily found by reference to the Bibliography. The sources designated by letters only are the following (see Bibliography for complete reference):

* '''BACSA''' British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, Putney, London (conducts research and maintains extensive records on burial sites, inscriptions and monuments in the territories of the British Empire; publishes the journal Chowkidar)
* '''F''' Farrington, Anthony. The Second Afghan War
* '''HAAL''' Hart's Annual Army List (see Bibliography); abbreviation is followed by publication date, e.g., HAAL:79, HAAL:80
* '''IMI''' Indian Monumental Inscriptions, here with specific reference to Miles Irving and George William de Rhé-Philipe, A List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs or Monuments in the Punjab, North-West Provinces, Kashmir and Afghanistan
* '''JSAHR''' Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, National Army Museum, Chelsea, London
* '''MR1-15''' Medal Rolls (see separate description on pp. 23-32
* '''RVC''' The Register of the Victoria Cross
* '''SB''' Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, Biographical Division (by some authors cited as vol. 2, though the separate vols. are not numbered)
* '''SH''' Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, Historical Division (by some authors cited as vol. 1, though the separate vols. are not numbered)
* For other sources the author's surname (sometimes followed by abbreviated title) are used.

Source Abbreviations

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In most cases the surname of the author is used as the abbreviated reference to his work, and this is followed by a page number. These are easily found by reference to the Bibliography. The sources designated by letters only are the following (see Bibliography for complete reference):

BACSA British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, Putney, London (conducts research and maintains extensive records on burial sites, inscriptions and monuments in the territories of the British Empire; publishes the journal Chowkidar)

'''F''' Farrington, Anthony. The Second Afghan War

'''HAAL''' Hart's Annual Army List (see Bibliography); abbreviation is followed by publication date, e.g., HAAL:79, HAAL:80

'''IMI''' Indian Monumental Inscriptions, here with specific reference to Miles Irving and George William de Rhé-Philipe, A List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs or
Monuments in the Punjab, North-West Provinces, Kashmir and Afghanistan

'''JSAHR''' Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, National Army Museum, Chelsea, London

'''MR1-15''' Medal Rolls (see separate description on pp. 23-32

'''RVC''' The Register of the Victoria Cross

'''SB''' Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, Biographical Division (by some authors cited as vol. 2, though the separate vols. are not numbered)

'''SH''' Shadbolt, Sydney H. The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, Historical Division (by some authors cited as vol. 1, though the separate vols. are not numbered)

For other sources the author's surname (sometimes followed by abbreviated title) are used.

Second Afghan War Medal Rolls

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The best and most complete record of British military who participated in the Second Afghan War are the Medal Rolls drawn up by every regiment, brigade, corps, and department of the British and Indian armies. Every member of the military establishment, or temporarily attached to one or another part of it, who crossed the frontier was ostensibly entitled to the Second Afghan War Medal, and the Medal Rolls are a record of these entitlements. Most of these records are in manuscript form, though in a few instances they are printed. All are now in extremely fragile condition in spite of conservation efforts, and in some cases they are faded and almost illegible. In a few instances minor fragments have been lost. They are highly variable, both with respect to care with which they were kept, and the amount of information they provide about the individuals listed in what could best be characterized as a casual alphabetical order. ln addition to the surname and Christian name (but in some cases initial only), they give the individual's rank at the time the medal was earned, that is the rank held during his service in the war. It is this rank I have assigned, insofar as possible, to all military personel appearing in the present work.

The amount of additional information provided by the separate medal rolls is highly variable. ln some instances the separate campaigns, or battles, where the individual was present are recorded, but there is no uniformity in this regard. Frequently additional remarks are added and this is generally the weakest part of the record. It is from these remarks that one may be informed of transfers to other brigades, or battalions, of sickness and death. With respect to the latter, the record may simply record that the individual is “deceased,” or it may give the date, cause, and place of death. But in the roll of some regiments deaths were not recorded in the Medal Rolls, and this data must then be gleaned from other records, such as the Burial Registers. Occasionally other information is provided on such matters as desertions (and consequent forfeiture of the medal), sentences to prison, etc. These are the exceptions. Normally the remarks simply state that the individual was present in such-and-such place. A few names are unaccountably not recorded: the murdered (5), suicides ( only) but the executed among them are never mentioned. I have included, insofar as the records allow, the notices of deaths, but rarely woundings, except insofar as they resulted in death. The late Mr. A. Farrington compiled a list the intention of which was to record all the casualties (but excluding those who died of war-related wounds, disease, or broken health, during and after the cessation of hostilities), but curiously, it omits many who were killed (especially in the 92nd Regt. Foot) in action at the Battle of Kandahar, 1 Sept. 1880 (from which it may be deduced that he did not read the Kabul-Kandahar Field Force Medal Rolls), and I saw no cause to expand the present list with information already conveniently presented. Farrington’s record of more isolated instances of soldiers KIA in minor skirmishes is much less complete than in the major battles. I have not included the most frequent notations of an individual's presence in a particular place since that is, for the purpose of this list, irrelevant to the fact of his presence in Afghanistan.

Unfortunately the Medal Rolls appear to have been unevenly kept. While those of some regiments were set in type, with full Christian names and useful annotations, others were carelessly kept and are, in some cases, now scarcely legible. lt is possible that a related problem stems from the manner in which these records were formed. Fully ten percent of the names of participants verifiable from Burial Registers, current regimental records, or even extant tombstones and memorials, are not to be found in the Medal Rolls. Even those who died, or were killed, early in the war were entitled to the award of the Afghan War Medal, providing they had crossed the frontier, rather differently construed at this time from the Durand Line which presently marks the boundary between northeastern Afghanistan and Pakistan. The southern border was even less well defined. Often Sibi, now quite deeply inside Pakistan, was accepted as the border post. At other times the southern border was considered as Quetta, much closer to the Afghan border as later defined, but still well inside Pakistan. While the "executed" and “deserters” may not have been entitled to the Medal, surely those "murdered" by an individual in the British, or Indian, Army should certainly have been entitled. Those with a notation following their name “forfeit by desertation” may not have been entitled to the Medal, but it is not my place to assign punishments and judgments, and they have been included in the list. Sometimes there is a stamp "NOT CLAIMED" following the name of a deceased, but this notation also appears against the names of many survivors who, presumably, could not be located after discharge from servive, or who simply failed to claim their medal. If such a relatively high percentage of names of the deceased, verifiable from other sources, are missing from the Medal Rolls, one wonders whether this percentage may pertain to the whole of the Medal Rolls, and that the names contained therein may represent rather less than ninety percent of the total military personnel who crossed the frontier.

The condition of the Medal Rolls is very uneven. While most are quite easily read, the hand in a few is very difficult to decipher. Some are extremely faint, while others are very dark and/or severely smudged. The Roll of the 63rd Regt. Foot, beginning at MR5, p. 191, is an example of the latter. It requires much time and patience to arrive at a probable reading.

Many officers had both the inclination and the means to assure receipt of the Afghan War Medal, and it is chiefly among these that there exist some questionable recipients. The southern boundary between Sibi, Quetta and Chaman was imprecisely defined, but normally anyone who passed beyond sibi, in the direction of the Bolan Pass, was considered to be entitled to the Medal. But since the Afghans claimed this part of Baluchistan at this period (and indeed, even later), one should not insist on too strict a definition of having "crossed the frontier," even though some appear to have made "day trips" for no other discernible purpose than to allow for a Medal claim. In the northern theater, anyone who entered the Khyber Pass, or traveled beyond Jamrud, near Peshawar, appears to have been entitled to the Medal. In the south, Sibi, in Sind, appears to have been the site beyond which entitlement was acknowledged.

Men of the Other Ranks were much less likely to have had ambiguous claims reviewed, since they had less notional mobility and their claims were subject to scrutiny at more administrative levels, as evidenced from correspondence included in the Medal Rolls. Civilian claims were, at times, subject to close scrutiny as well, though in some cases, such as that of the journalist Howard Hensman who spent, with the utmost conspicuousness, the entire second phase of the war in Afghanistan, it is puzzling to read that Sir F.S. Roberts himself had to support his claim with a number of official letters.

I have recorded the names as they appear in the Medal Rolls, but have at times given variant spellings from other sources, and have cross-referenced these where it seemed appropriate. Some of the surnames seem extraordinary. Possibly they are correctly recorded, but it is also possible that they were not correctly recorded, or not accurately transcribed by me. It is also impossible to be certain that "Bennet" should not have been "Bennett", or that "Willson" should not have been "Wilson," "Malony," "Maloney," "O'Donnell," "O'Donnel" etc. Among Christian names there is likely to be even a greater range for error, since they were less often used and recorded. To cite but a few cases where ambiguity must be considered: Laurence/Lawrence, Philip/Phillip/Philipp, Denis/Dennis, Lewis/Louis, Mathew/Matthew, Sidney/Sydney. Where multiple references occur, it is not uncommon for the spelling of the Christian name to vary, one from the other. There are scores of such instances and possibilities contained in the list, and the user should be cognisant of this in looking for a particular name. At times, when an individual is recorded in more than one Medal Roll, the Christian name will be different, as in Daniel/David, Edward/Edwin, John/James, Edmond/Edmund, and so forth. The spelling of names is as highly individual as pronunciation is personal, and I have not presumed to correct existing records without substantial cause.

Certainly some individuals have been listed twice though I have made every reasonable effort to avoid this error, or to cross-reference such uncertainties. Varying spellings of surnames occur, and these have been cross-referenced when appropriate, that is, if the spellings vary enough that the names would appear elsewhere in the list. Transfers were frequent and the individuals' regimental numbers, while occasionally remaining the same, most often were changed. If there is another person in the regiment with the same name, it can be difficult (if not impossible) to determine which one was the transfer, unless his regimental number remained the same, or the change noted. In such cases a double entry may be unavoidable. Even more obscure are cases of unrecorded transfers. While unusual identical names occurring in separate brigades quite possibly are the same individual, common surnames are much more difficult to equate. Whenever I have suspected the same individual was twice entered, I have indicated these possible, or probable, identical entries, but the ultimate uncertainty has not warranted the combination of the two, or deletion of one.

The separate manuscript Medal Rolls have been gathered together in thick bound volumes. Owing to their fragile condition, the India Office Library and Records microfilmed these volumes, printed from the microfilms and bound these in volumes corresponding to the manuscript volumes. Generally these bound microprint volumes are adequate for reference, and access to the manuscripts is advisedly restricted to problems which cannot be resolved by reference to the microprints. It must be noted, however, that the manuscripts were microfilmed subsequent to their having been gathered into thick bound volumes and, in consequence, when names were recorded close to the margins of the pages, some in the gutter do not appear on the films. In addition, during the microfilming, probably by disinterested civil servants, occasionally a page was skipped and consequently two papes (recto and verso) entirely missed. The microfilming was carried out before the manuscript pages were conserved, and in some cases the microfilm is easier to read than the original pages which have been stiffened with a preservative netting which at times obscures letters. During (or before) the process of conservation, brittle edge fragments of some pages were lost, and with them the names. In some cases efforts were made to restore the lost names, and in a few instances errors were introduced. In such cases the microfilmed record is the more accurate one.

One additional problem must be mentioned. The bound pages of the manuscript volumes were given consecutive numbers in pencil at the upper right hand corner, subsequent to the binding and carrying consequtively through each volume. For reasons that are unclear to me, and have been inadequately explained, when the conservation of the manuscripts was conducted these numbers were replaced with new ones which do not correspond to the original ones appearing on the microfilm. This is an inexplicable and unfortunate complication, and it is for this reason that in my list I have given no page numbers which, in any case, formed no part of the original records.

== Contents of the Medal Rolls ==

The reels of the microfilmed Medal Rolls correspond to the volumes into which the manuscripts have been gathered, and share the same shelfmark with these volumes. The 1861 Order of Precedence is not followed in the gathering of these records. Principal Regiments and Departments only are included in the catalogue entries: individuals from other Regiments and Departments -- attached, or otherwise present -- occur in most volumes.
The contents and order of the Indian Army Medal Roll volumes is particularly confusing. The contents given here represent the actual order within each volume rather than that described in the library records. Many individual names, attached to regiments, brigades, corps, or departments not included here appear as single entries within another volume entry, as in a transfer. Such instances are too numerous to record in this general guide and can be determined only by reference to the personal name.

'''MR1''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/110 British Army Cavalry Regiments

* 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 6th Dragoon Guard (Carabiniers)
* 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
* 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
* 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars 15th (The King's) Hussars

'''MR2''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/111 British Army

* Corps of Engineers

'''MR3''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/112 British Army

Royal Horse Artillery
D/A R.H.A. I/A R.H.A. E/B R.H.A.
E/A R.H.A. A/B R.H.A. H/C R.H.A.
F/A R.H.A. D/B R.H.A. I/C R.H.A.

* Royal Artillery
H/1 R.A. A/4 R.A. 6/8 R.A. 5/11 R.A.
I/1 R.A. C/4 R.A. 13/8 R.A. 6/11 R.A.
C/2 R.A. D/4 R.A. 16/8 R.A. 8/11 R.A.
D/2 R.A. E/4 R.A. 11/9 R.A. 9/11 R.A.
F/2 R.A. G/4 R.A. 12/9 R.A. 10/11 R.A.
C/3 R.A. L/5 R.A. 13/9 R.A. 11/11 R.A.
E/3 R.A. 1/8 R.A. 14/9 R.A. 13/16 R.A.
G/3 R.A. 5/8 R.A. 15/9 R.A. 16/16 R.A.

'''MR4''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/113 British Army: Infantry Brigades

* 1st Battn. 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 8th (The King's) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
* 2nd Battn. 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)

'''MR5''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/114 British Army: Infantry Regiments

* 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment
* 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment
* 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment
* 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment
* 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
* 34th (The Cumberland) Regiment
* 39th (The Dorsetshire) Regiment
* 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment
* 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment
* 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment
* 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 60th The King's Royal Rifle Corps
* 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment
* 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment

'''MR6''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/115 British Army: Infantry Regiments

* 66th (Berkshire) Regiment
* 2nd Battn. 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
* 68th (Durham) (Light Infantry) Regiment
* 70th (Surrey) Regiment
* 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment
* 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment
* 78th (Highland) Regiment, The Ross-shire Buffs
* 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment
* 1st Battn. 83rd (County Dublin) Regiment [Royal Irish Rifles]
* 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment
* 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment
* 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment
* 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 4th Battn. The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade

'''MR7''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/116

* Staff
* Army Medical Department
* Veterinary Department
* Transport Department
* Signalling Department

'''MR8''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/116 Bengal Army

Included are only the principal units; many Medical, Veterinary, Survey, Signals, Supply, Transport, etc., scattered throughout. The disorder and repetitions are in sequential order; some of the minor entries have been omitted.
* Bengal Staff Corps [passim]
* 6th Regiment Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Ordnance Department (Bengal)
* Supply and Transport
* 8th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurgh) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Ordnance Department (Bengal)
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 5th Regiment Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regiment Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* Bhopaul Battalion, Bheel Corps
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* I Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* 1st Battn. 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment
* C Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regiment Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* Bhopaul Battalion, Bheel Corps
* 30th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 1st Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 5th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* No. 1 Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* 30th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 5th Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 4th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 4th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* The Central India Horse
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Mhairwarra Battalion, Bheel Corps
* 1st Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 28th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bengal Commissariat Department
* Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force
* Bengal Commissariat Department
* Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force
* Bengal Commissariat Department
* Political Officers (Bengal)
* Bengal Commissariat Department
* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Department
* Staff, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, Punjab Frontier Force
* Bengal Commissariat Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Department
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* Indian Medical Service
* 1st Regiment, The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regiment, The Central India Horse
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 11th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 1st Goorkha Regiment (Light Infantry)
* 1st Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 1st Regiment, The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regiment, The Central India Horse
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 11th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 1st Goorkha Regiment (Light Infantry)
* 1st Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* Political Department (Bengal)
* 8th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* 24th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 24th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry

'''MR9''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/118 Bengal Army

The disorder and repetition observed in MR8 obtains here also.

* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* 26th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regiment Punjab Native Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* 12th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* Deolee Irregular Force, The Central India Horse
* 1st Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 2nd (or Hill) Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 3rd Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regiment
* 3rd Sikh Regiment Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 6th Infantry Regiment, Hyderabad Contingent
* 5th Infantry Regiment, Hyderabad Contingent
* Commissariat Department (Madras)
* 20th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* 5th Goorkha Regiment (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion) Punjab Frontier Force
* 9th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Indian Medical Service/Department
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 4th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Commissariat Department (Bengal)
* 19th Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 23rd (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 3rd Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 31st (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd Regiment Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* 21st (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Baluchistan Agency, Governor-General's Staff
* 17th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 19th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Goorkha Regiment
* 1st Regiment Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* Ordnance Department (Bengal)
* 25th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Bengal Police (Transport)
* Survey Department
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 1st Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Poona Horse (Bombay)
* Medical Department (Bombay)
* 5th Regiment Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 2nd Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 15th Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* Telegraphs Department
* 32nd (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 27th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* No. 2 Co. Bombay Sappers and Miners
* No. 3 Co. Bombay Sappers and Miners
* No. 4 Co. Bombay Sappers and Miners
* 24th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 27th Bombay Native Infantry, or 1st Belooch Regiment
* Medical Department (Bombay)
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Bombay Police
* 4th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps)
* 28th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* Commissariat Department (Bombay)
* Transport Department (Bombay)
* Ordnance Department (Bombay)
* 3rd Regiment Bombay Cavalry (Queen's Own)
* 3rd Regiment Sind Horse, Sind Frontier Force
* 9th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 16th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 19th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 29th Bombay Native Infantry, or 2nd Belooch Regiment
* 26th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* Telegraphs Department (Bombay)
* Police Department (Bombay) (Transport)
* Survey Department (Bombay)
* Commissariat Department (Bombay)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 30th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry, or Jacob's Rifles
* 19th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry

'''MR10''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/119 Bengal and Bombay Armies

The disorder and repetition observed in MR9 obtains here also.

* Staff
* Transport (Bombay)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 15th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 2nd Regiment Sind Horse, Sind Frontier Force
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 8th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 10th Regiment Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 13th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry
* 23rd Regiment Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* Staff
* Commissariat Department (Bombay)
* Indian Medical Department (Bombay)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 3rd Regiment Sind Horse, Sind Frontier Force
* Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force (attached Bombay officers)
* Bhopaul Battalion, Bheel Corps (attached Bombay officers)
* Commissariat Department (Bombay)
* 4th Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 19th Regiment Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 31st (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Baluchistan Agency Staff (2 entries, see below)
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Postal Service, Baluchistan, Kabul, Ali Kheyl
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* 4th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps)
* 1st Regiment Sind Horse, Sind Frontier Force
* 2nd Regiment Bombay Cavalry
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* Bombay Sappers and Miners
* Staff (Bengal and Bombay)
* 1st Regiment Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers)
* 1st Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* Commissariat Department (Bombay)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bengal)
* Staff, Bengal and Bombay
* Political Department (Bengal)
* Subordinate Medical Department (Bombay)
* Baluchistan Agency, Staff {2 entries; see above)
* Telegraphs Department

'''MR11''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/120 Bombay Army

The same disorder and repetition observed in MR10 obtains here.

* Staff
* Police, Postal Services, Commissariat, Medical Department, Ecclesiastical Establishments, Civil Service, Public Works Departments, Telegraphs, Engineers (Bengal and Bombay)

'''MR12''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/121 Madras Army

The same disorder and repetition observed in preceding Indian Army Medal Rolls obtains to a somewhat lesser degree here.

* 1st Regiment Madras Cavalry
* 2nd Regiment Madras Cavalry (all attached to 1st Regiment Madras Cavalry)

* A Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* B Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* C Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* E Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* I Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)
* K Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regiment Madras Native Infantry (Shaik Modeen - Porannah)
* 4th Regiment Madras Native Infantry (Baillie)
* 15th Regiment Madras Native Infantry (Davis)
* 21st Regiment Madras Native Infantry (Roberts)
* 30th Regiment Madras Native Infantry (Crewe)
* Commissariat Department (Madras)
* Indian Medical Department (Madras)
* Staff
* Veterinary Department (Madras)

'''MR13''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/122 [Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, British Army]

* Staff
* 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
* 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
* 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Hussars
* Royal Horse Artillery (Staff)
* Royal Artillery (Staff)
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
* A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* 6th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* Royal Engineers
* 1st Battalion 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment
* 2nd Battalion 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment
* 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regt. (The Prince of Wales's Own)
* 2nd Battalion 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
* 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
* 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) Regiment (The King's Own Light Infantry)
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment
* Army Pay Department
* 2nd Battalion 60th The King's Own Rifle Corps
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment
* 2nd Battalion 66th (Berkshire) Regiment
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
* 1st Battalion 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment
* 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment
* 4th Battalion The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade
* Army Medical Department

'''MR14''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/123 [Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Indian Army]

* Staff
* 3rd Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 5th Goorkha Regiment (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
* Commissariat Department
* Ordnance Department
* Ecclesiastical Establishment
* Medical Department
* 23rd (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 3rd Regiment Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regiment Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 1st Regiment The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regiment The Central India Horse
* 25th (Punjab) Regiment Bengal Native Infantry
* 3rd Regiment Punjab Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force
* Subordinate Medical Department
* 29th Bombay Native Infantry, or 2nd Belooch Regiment
* Political, Transport, Commissariat, Medical
* 4th Goorkha Regiment
* Staff, Political, Ecclesiastical

'''MR15''' IOL&R L/MIL/5/124 [Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Indian Army, and Miscellany]

* Staff
* "Discrepancies"
* 2nd Regiment Bombay Cavalry
* Ecclesiastical Department (Bombay)
* Medical Department (Bombay)
* Bombay Sappers and Miners
* 19th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry

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* Bombay Staff Corps
* 1st Regt. Bombay Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bombay Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bombay Cavalry (Queen's Own)

* Poona Horse

== Sind Frontier Force ==
* 1st Regt. Sind Horse
* 2nd Regt. Sind Horse
* 3rd Regt. Sind Horse

* Aden Troop

== Native Artillery ==

* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 Mountain Battery

== Corps of Sappers and Miners ==

* 1st Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers)
* 2nd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Prince of Wales's Own) (Grenadiers)
* 3rd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 4th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps)
* 5th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 12th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 13th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 14th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 15th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 16th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 17th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 18th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 19th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 20th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 21st Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Marine Battalion)
* 22nd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 23rd Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 24th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 25th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 26th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 27th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (lst Belooch) Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 28th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 29th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (2nd Belooch) Regt.
* 30th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Jacob's Rifles)

* General List, Bombay Cavalry
* General List, Bombay Infantry

* Bombay Medical Department
* Bombay Veterinary Department
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Department

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* Bombay Staff Corps
* 1st Regt. Bombay Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bombay Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bombay Cavalry (Queen's Own)

* Poona Horse

== Sind Frontier Force ==
* 1st Regt. Sind Horse
* 2nd Regt. Sind Horse
* 3rd Regt. Sind Horse

* Aden Troop

== Native Artillery ==

* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 Mountain Battery

== Corps of Sappers and Miners ==

* 1st Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers)
* 2nd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Prince of Wales's Own) (Grenadiers)
* 3rd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 4th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps)
* 5th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 12th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 13th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 14th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 15th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 16th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 17th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 18th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
* 19th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
20th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
21st Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Marine Battalion)
22nd Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
23rd Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
24th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
25th Regt. Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
26th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
27th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (lst Belooch) Regt. (Light Infantry)
28th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry
29th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (2nd Belooch) Regt.
30th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry (Jacob's Rifles)

* General List, Bombay Cavalry
* General List, Bombay Infantry

* Bombay Medical Department
* Bombay Veterinary Department
* Bombay Ecclesiastical Department

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* Bengal Staff Corps
* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry * 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

Preface to First Edition

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The genesis of the present work was in a personal need to identify several hundred persons mentioned by two participants in the Second Afghan War whose diaries I edited for publication in the mid eighties. This task, not in every instance resolved thoroughly or accurately, was complicated by my diarists' habit of supplying surnames only. It took me the better part of a year to complete this work, and even then there remained a considerable number of unidentified people. By the time I had reached the seeming end to my ability to shed light on the remaining mysterious names, I had a file of over one thousand names inscribed on cards. Since most of the names I needed to identify were officers who had served in Afghanistan during the war, I relied heavily on the volumes of Sydney Shadbolt who published, in his history of the war, lists of all (or so I then thought) the British officers who had served with the staff, regiments, brigades, corps, and departments, of the British and Indian armies. A few men from the Other Ranks who had distinguished themselves in the prosecution of the war were also included by Shadbolt in his first volume entitled "Historical Division." But these lists are, for the most part, not in alphabetical order, and there is no index. Instead, Shadbolt recorded most (but hardly all, I later discovered) of those regiments, brigades, corps, and departments, employed in Afghanistan during the war, and the officers were thus included in these regimental lists, but not in alphabetical arrangement. Since the citations in the diaries I was editing rarely identified the regiments with the their names, and sometimes without clear indication as to whether the number had reference to the British or the Indian army (or to the 1861 designations, or 1881 reorganization of the Order of Precedence of British Army) many frustrating hours were spent paging through Shadbolt's compilations searching for particular individuals. The process was further complicated by the frequency of identical names in different regiments, necessitating further research to determine the specific individual to which my authors referred. Of course, my task would have been made easier if I had had had during the course of my labors ready access to the annually published army lists. But copies of these are extremely rare in the United States. At any rate, these are concerned with officers only, and my need quite exceeded such limitations.

When I had completed the annotations to the diaries I published, I determined to compile an alphabetical list of all the officers contained in Shadbolt's volumes as I had reason to believe that I would have future need for these names and I did not look forward to paging slowly through Shadbolt's work each time I required a new identification. Furthermore, most of the names in Shadbolt are cited by surname only, with initials only of the Christian names. This common practice in British publications can be quite tiresome when one requires full and precise documentation and considers the frequency with which one encounters such surnames as, for example, Smith and Jones.

At the conclusion of my editing of the diaries I began, for my own purposes, to compile an alphabetical list of the officers contained in Shadbolt's useful volumes, and by May 1987 I had completed this work. The list contained approximately five thousand names. Ten copies of this work were printed and presented to individuals and organizations I presumed would find the work of some value for their own purposes. As a result, I received a number of comments on how the list might be improved and augmented. One suggestion, which I chose to heed, was that the work be expanded to include not just the officers who had served in the war, but everyone who had crossed the frontier into Afghanistan during the period of the war and who may or may not have been connected in some way with the prosecution of the war, but who would probably not otherwise have been in Afghanistan at that time. Apart from constituting a task of prodigeous proportions, it would also prove to be an impossible one, for many persons crossed the vaguely defined frontier into Afghanistan (especially merchants), for whom no easily accessible records are available. Indeed, there is every likelihood that no such records exist. But such a work would, in fact, approximate the implicit claim set forth in the title of this book.

Grateful acknowledgment is particularly owed to Brian Robson, CB, himself an outstanding authority on the Second Afghan War (as well as the First and Third), for his many helpful suggestions on the organization and presentation of the list, and for several names that were not found in official sources. I am further obliged to him for agreeing to the arduous task of carefully looking through large portions of the completed manuscript for consistency and accuracy. John Falconer, of the National Maritime Museum, provided valuable data on Surgeon Benjamin Simpson, one of the two important photographers in Afghanistan during, and immediately after, the war. I am indebted also to Jonathan Lee and to Omar Khan for helpful leads on my many searches through printed and manuscript records.

I do not presume the present list to be complete, especially in the area of biographies or personal memoirs. Many merchants, civilians, adventurers, and even tourists, entered Afghanistan during the years of the war and very few of these could be included for lack of tangible record. While it might, with great effort and much time, be possible to add some insignificant proportion of these names from widely dispersed records in India and England, I shall leave this task to whomever may wish to assume it. The present list is primarily restricted to the military because the records were initially fairly well kept and are, for the most part, preserved. To the military establishment have been added a few citations to journalists, photographers, and members of the Civil Service, frontier police, and civilians of various positions within India who were called upon to serve in Afghanistan. No attempt has been made to recover all citations to officers who served in the war; these are readily available in the various histories and memoirs of the period. For these, only basic citations have been included when I noted them in the course of compiling the list. The list is intended only as a point of departure for researches.

I cannot claim either that, in spite of considerable effort and devotion, it is an accurate list. It perpetuates most of the errors inherent in its sources, and doubtless fresh ones have been introduced for which I alone am responsible. The present list I consider to be little more than a skeleton, one which I sincerely hope will be nourished by future researchers.

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* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry * 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

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* Bengal Staff Corps
* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry * 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

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* 1st Regt. Madras Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Madras Cavalry (Stevenson Pater)
* 3rd Regt. Madras Cavalry (Murray)
* 4th Regt. Madras Cavalry (Prince of Wa]es's Own)

* Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Shaikh Modeen - Porannah)
* 2nd Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Mootoo Naik)
* 3rd Regt. Madras (Palamcottah) Light Infantry (Turin)
* 4th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Baillie)
* 5th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Shaikh Kudawund)
* 6th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Mackenzie)
* 7th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Cooks)
* 8th Regt. Madras Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Kelly)
* 10th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Thusmee)
* 11th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Macneile - Syed Homed)
* 12th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Barim)
* 13th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Alcock)
* 14th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Wahab)
* 15th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Davis)
* 16th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Lane)
* 17th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Butler)
* 19th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Muirhead)
* 20th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Bagot)
* 21st Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Roberts)
* 22nd Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Dalrymple)
* 23rd Regt. Madras (Wallajahbad) Light Infantry (Tolfry)
* 24th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (McDonald)
* 25th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Kenny)
* 26th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Innes)
* 27th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Lindsay)
* 28th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Martin)
* 29th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Macleod)
* 30th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Crewe)
* 31st Regt. Madras (Trichinopoly) Light Infantry (Jeannerrett)
* 32nd Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Dyce)
* 33rd Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Wahab)
* 34th Regt. Madras (Chicacole) Light Infantry (Durand)
* 35th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Parkinson)
* 36th Regt. Madras Native lnfantry (Nundy)
* 37th Regt. Madras Grenadiers (Forbes)
* 38th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (MacGregor)
* 39th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (2nd Martin)
* 40th Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Volunteer)
* 41st Regt. Madras Native Infantry (Irton)

* General List, Madras Cavalry
* General List, Madras Infantry

* Madras Medical Department
* Madras Veterinary Department
* Madras Ecclesiastical Establishment

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![[The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881]]:
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|'''Volume I'''
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|[[Preface to First Edition]]
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|[[Preface to Second Edition]]
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|[[Organization]]
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|[[British Army Order of Precedence 1861]]
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|[[Indian Army (Bengal)]]
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|[[Indian Army (Madras)]]
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|[[Indian Army (Bombay)]]
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|[[Second Afghan War Medal Rolls]]
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|[[Source Abbreviations]]
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|[[Bibliography]]
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|[[Text Abbreviations]]
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|[[Rank and Service Abbreviations]]
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|[[Ranks Prefaced by Numerical Identification]]
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|The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: A-F
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|'''Volume II'''
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|The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O
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|'''Volume III'''
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|The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: P-Z
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|Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan
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|Annex 2: Mortality
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|Annex 3: Incomplete References
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* Bengal Staff Corps
* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

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* Bengal Staff Corps
* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

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== BENGAL ==

* Bengal Staff Corps
* Governor General's Body Guard
* 1st Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 10th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 11th (Prince of Wales's Own) Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 12th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)
* 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalr (Lancers)
* 15th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 16th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 17th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 18th Regt. Bengal Cavalry
* 19th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers)

* Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (Queen's Own)

* 1st Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 2nd (Queen's Own) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
* 3rd Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 4th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 5th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 6th Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 7th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 8th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 9th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 10th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 11th Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 12th (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 13th (The Shekhawattee) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 14th (The Ferozepore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 16th (The Lucknow) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 17th (The Loyal Poorbeah) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 18th (The Alipore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 19th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 20th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 21st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 23rd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 24th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 25th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 26th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 27th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 28th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 29th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 30th (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 31st (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 32nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry (Pioneers)
* 33rd (The Allahabad) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 34th (The Futtegurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 36th (The Bareilly) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 37th (The Meerut) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 38th (The Agra) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 39th (The Allygurh) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 40th (The Shahjehanpore) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 41st (The Gwalior) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry
* 42nd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 43rd (Assam) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 44th (Sylhet) Regt. Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
* 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Regt. Bengal Native Infantry

* lst Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry)
* 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regt. (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 3rd Goorkha (Kemaoon) Regt.
* 4th Goorkha Regt.

=== Punjab Frontier Force ===
* No. 1 Mountain Battery
* No. 2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
* No. 3 (Peshawur) Mountain Battery
* No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
* No. 5 or Garrison Battery
* 1st Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Cavalry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry

* Queen's Own Corps of Guides
* Cavalry
* Infantry

* 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 4th Regt. Sikh Infantry
* 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 2nd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 3rd Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 4th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 6th Regt. Punjab Infantry
* 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
=== The Central India Horse ===
* 1st Regt. The Central India Horse
* 2nd Regt. The Central India Horse

* Deolee Irregular Force (Cavalry - Lancers)

* Erinpoorah Irregular Force

* Resident's Escort - Katmandhoo (Nepaul)

=== Bheel Corps ===

* Malwah Bheel Corps
* Meywar Bheel Corps
* Bhopaul Battalion
* Mhaiwarra Battalion

=== Hyderabad Contingent ===

* No. 1 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 2 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 3 Horse Light Field Artillery
* No. 4 Horse Light Field Artillery

* 1st Regt. Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Cavalry
* 3rd Regt. Cavalry
* 4th Regt. Cavalry

* 1st Infantry Regt.
* 2nd Infantry Regt.
* 3rd Infantry Regt.
* 4th Infantry Regt.
* 5th Infantry Regt.
* 6th Infantry Regt.

* General List, Bengal Cavalry
* General List, Bengal Infantry

* Bengal Medical Department
* Bengal Veterinary Department
* Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment

== MADRAS ==

* Madras Staff Corps
* 1st Regt. Madras Cavalry
* 2nd Regt. Madras Cavalry (Stevenson Pater)
* 3rd Regt. Madras Cavalry (Murray)
* 4th Regt. Madras Cavalry (Prince of Wa]es's Own)

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The following list contains the complete Order of Precedence. While not every regiment was involved in the war, individual officers from nearly every regiment were present in some capacity, attached temporarily to other regiments, or simply visiting the country at this time. A handily available complete list can be found in David Ascoli, '''A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983''' (London: Harrap, 1983) pp. 80-83, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years. Some differences occur, and there are slight variations from both in the following list. The one given here is the primary Order followed in the present work. The Order of Precedence was changed in 1882, soon after the end of the Second Afghan War and some of the sources, published after the war, have referred to the new Order.

== Royal Horse Artillery ==
See separate list for order of Brigades

* lst Life Guards
* 2nd Life Guards
* Royal Horse Guards
=== Brigades of the Royal Horse Artillery ===

* D/A R.H.A. D Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/A R.H.A. E Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* F/A R.H.A. F Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* G/A R.H.A. G Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* I/A R.H.A. I Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* A/B R.H.A. A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* B/B R.H.A. B Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* C/B R.H.A. C Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* D/B R.H.A. D Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/B R.H.A. E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* A/C R.H.A. A Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* B/C R.H.A. B Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/C R.H.A. E Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* H/C R.H.A. H Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* I/C R.H.A. I Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* F/H R.H.A. F Battery H Brigade Royal Horse Artillery

== Cavalry ==
* 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards
* 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
* 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
* 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
* 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
* 1st (Royal) Dragoons
* 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
* 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
* 4th (The Queens's Own) Hussars
* 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
* 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
* 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
* 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
* 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
* 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
* llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
* 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
* 13th Hussars
* 14th (The King's) Hussars
* 15th (The King's) Hussars
* 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
* 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
* 18th Hussars
* 19th Hussars
* 20th Hussars
* 21st Hussars

== Royal Regiment of Artillery ==

See separate list for order of brigades; here only those brigades included in the present work are listed.
=== Brigades of the Royal Artillery ===

* C/1 R.A. C Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/1 R.A. H Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* I/1 R.A. I Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* M/1 R.A. M Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/2 R.A. C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* D/2 R.A. D Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/2 R.A. E Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/2 R.A. F Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* N/2 R.A. N Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/3 R.A. A Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* B/3 R.A. B Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/3 R.A. C Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/3 R.A. E Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/3 R.A. F Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* G/3 R.A. G Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/3 R.A. H Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/4 R.A. A Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* B/4 R.A. B Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/4 R.A. C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* D/4 R.A. D Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/4 R.A. E Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/4 R.A. F Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* G/4 R.A. G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/5 R.A. H Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* K/5 R.A. K Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* L/5 R.A. L Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* O/5 R.A. O Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* N/6 R.A. N Battery 6th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 20/7 R.A. 20th Battery 7th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 1/8 R.A. 1st Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 5/8 R.A. 5th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 6/8 R.A. 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/8 R.A. 10th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/8 R.A. 11th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/8 R.A. 13th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 15/8 R.A. 15th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 16/8 R.A. 16th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 17/8 R.A. 17th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 18/8 R.A. 18th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 19/8 R.A. 19th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 3/9 R.A. 3rd Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/9 R.A. 10th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/9 R.A. 11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 12/9 R.A. 12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/9 R.A. 13th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 14/9 R.A. 14th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 15/9 R.A. 15th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 8/10 R.A. 8th Battery 10th Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/11 R.A. A Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 5/11 R.A. 5th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 6/11 R.A. 6th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 8/11 R.A. 8th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 9/11 R.A. 9th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/11 R.A. 10th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/11 R.A. 11th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/16 R.A. 13th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 16/16 R.A. 16th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery

== Corps of Royal Engineers ==

* Bengal Sappers and Miners (late Bengal Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
* Madras Sappers and Miners (late Madras Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
* Bombay Sappers and Miners (late Bombay Sappers and Miners)

== Regiments of Foot ==

* Grenadier Guards
* Coldstream Guards
* Scots Guards
* 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment
* 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment
* 3rd (East Kent - The Buffs) Regiment
* 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment
* 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment
* 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment
* 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 8th (The King's) Regiment
* 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment
* 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment
* 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment
* 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment
* 13th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Albert's Light Infantry Regiment
* 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
* 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regiment
* 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment
* 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment
* 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment
* 19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment (Princess of Wales's Own)
* 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment
* 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment
* 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
* 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment
* 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment
* 25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment
* 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment
* 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment
* 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment
* 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment
* 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment
* 31st (The Huntingdonshire) Regiment
* 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry Regiment
* 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
* 34th (The Cumberland) Regiment
* 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment
* 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment
* 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment
* 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment
* 39th (The Dorsetshire) Regiment
* 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment
* 41st (The Welsh) Regiment
* 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment (The Black Watch)
* 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment
* 44th (The East Essex) Regiment
* 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
* 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment
* 47th (Lancashire) Regiment
* 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment
* 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Herefordshire) Regiment
* 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment
* 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment
* 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Regiment
* 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment
* 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment
* 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment
* 56th (West Essex) Regiment
* 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment
* 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment
* 60th The King's Royal Rifle Corps
* 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment
* 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment
* 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment
* 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment
* 66th (Berkshire) Regiment
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
* 68th (Durham) Light Infantry Regiment
* 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment
* 70th (Surrey) Regiment
* 71st (Highland) Light Infantry Regiment
* 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment
* 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment
* 74th (Highlanders) Regiment
* 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment
* 76th Regiment of Foot
* 77th (East Middlesex) The Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment
* 78th (Highland) Regiment, The Ross-shire Buffs
* 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment
* 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment
* 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment
* 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
* 83rd (County Dublin) Regiment
* 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment
* 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment
* 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment
* 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment
* 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment
* 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment
* 90th (Perthshire Volunteers - Light Infantry) Regiment
* 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment
* 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment
* 94th Regiment of Foot
* 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment
* 96th Regiment of Foot
* 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment
* 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment
* 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment
* 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment
* 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment
* 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment
* 104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment
* 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment
* 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment
* 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment
* 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment
* The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade

* 1st West India Regiment
* 2nd West India Regiment

The above departments and regiments are followed by (but not part of) the 1861 Order of Precedence:

* Commissariat and Transport Department
* Ordnance Store Department
* Army Pay Department
* Army Medical Department
* Veterinary Department
* Chaplains' Department
* Royal Marine Artillery
* Royal Marine Light Infantry

Note: When members of the above departments are attached, for the period of their service, to a regiment, as was frequently the case during the Second Afghan War, they appear with that regiment rather than under their respective departments.

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The names contained in the following list are in systematic rather than strictly alphabetical order. A consistent system was required in order to avoid an inevitable arbitrariness in placement which would have resulted from strict adherence to the alphabet. This may sound more contradictory than it is. When confronted with, say, eighteen individuals known only as "J. Smith," the alphabet alone is inadequate to assure anything beyond arbitrary grouping. Military rank could not be relied upon, quite apart from the fact that several of our "J. Smiths" might have held the same rank. Much variation has been observed in this area, according to sources consulted. While many authors, in writing of the Second Afghan War, assign participants ranks they held at the conclusion of hostilities, or even later, after the general promotions customary at the conclusion of wars, for the sake of consistency I have tried to assign to each person the rank held at the time of service during the war (including promotions and demotions), as set forth either in the Medal Rolls, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years, ignoring local ranks and brevets unless held at the time of service in the war (not briefly for some war-related event or period; these are separately noted). Many officers will, therefore, appear to have lower ranks than they are commonly accorded while among the other ranks subsequent demotions and promotions are not reflected here, unless they occurred during the period of the war and are noted in the contemporary records.

The following basic decisions were made in order to eliminate the arbitrary factor and achieve a list where each name can appear only in the place it does. For the British Army, this system combines the alphabet with the 1861 Order of Precedence, the one pertinent to the period of the war. Unfortunately (for our purposes) the Order of Precedence and designations of the regiments were changed in 1881, shortly after the conclusion of the war. Hence, many authors, writing after the war, in citing the names and numbered (or simply the Territorial names) regiments of men who served in the war, employ the 1881 Order of Precedence with its revised designations, and thus compound the confusion. This is particularly the case in Shadbotl, and to a lesser extent in Hart’s Annual Army List. The 1861 Order of Precedence has been published many times, but I include it here since it is crucial to finding a name in the lists. It might be noted, as well, that there is no absolute standard in the citations to the 1861 Order of Precedence, and I have followed no single source. In general, I have followed the format of Hart's Annual Army List for 1880 for officers, but at times have diverged when it was at odds with other sources of equal authority. Hence, the list I include here is that I have employed throughout this work, but it should present no problems in relation to others from the period.

I have followed the same general procedure with respect to the Indian Native Regiments of the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies. The names and numerical designations of many regiments were changed in the years following the war (though a major reorganization did not take place until 1903), and some of the spellings (viz. Kemaoon vs. Kumaon, with the 3rd Goorkha Regt.) now seem old-fashioned, awkward, or quaint.

The order in which the regiments of the lndian Army appear here, and their numerical designations, are according to Hart's Annual Army List for 1880, with additional reference to S. Shadbolt (Historical Division, pp. 251-352), and other sources listed in the Bibliography. Additional reference has been made to the authoritative work by Boris Mollo, '''The Indian Army''' (Poole: Blandford, 1981) to which the user of this list may wish to turn for a more exhaustive treatment of this subject. The order of the regiments as bound in the Medal Rolls occasionally differs from that of the 1861 Order of Precedence. Since it was the primary source employed in compiling this register, I have adhered to the order in the Medal Rolls.

If two "J. Smiths" appear in the same regiment, corps, brigade, or department, the one with the lower regimental number precedes the higher, irrespective of rank, Company, or Brigade. Some officers of the Staff who, during the war were not attached to a particular regiment, are listed before those of the same name with regimental affiliation. Additionally, officers of a regiment with the same name as a regular soldier with regimental number, will precede these. Officers and men attached temporarily to other regiments during the war are normally listed under their permanent affiliation (if known), with a notation of the attachment. The regiments, corps, departments of the Indian Army follow listings for the British Army. Medical officers are included with the regiments with which they served, if known; otherwise they appear in their respective medical departments, along with commissariat, transport, clergy, and civilians, following military with the same name. Transfers between regiments and brigades, when known and verifiable, are also given in annotations, but the transfers are recorded with the Regiment, Battalion, or Brigade, normally are retained where they had been at the beginning of the war.

The alphabetical organization is based primarily upon surname followed by first Christian name. When only the initial letter of the first Christian name is known, it precedes identical surnames where the full Christian name is known. Hence, "J. Smith" always precedes "Jacob, James, John, Jaylon Smith." The order in which both the "J. Smiths" and the "John Smiths" appear depends upon their regiments and regimental numbers, as previously noted. Additional names beyond the first Christian name are not considered alphabetically since so few are known. Therefore, while " J. Smith" will always precede "John Smith," in the same regiment, it is possible for "Smith, Lieut. John William" to precede "Smith, Lieut. John James," since following the first Christian name the regimental number and/or Order of Precedence, becomes the determining factor.

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'''Altadena 2011'''

The present second edition of this work was completed by 1994, but not then puiblished for several reasons. The principal reason for this was because the primarily manuscript records used had been microfilmed, printed (as copyflow), and bound in several volumes. This work had been carelessly done; pages of records had been skipped by the microfilmer/s and because the original documents had been bound in thick gatherings and in many places the data in the gutters was blurred or entirely invisible. The original manuscripts were made available to me only a single day, and this did not allow me sufficient time to clarify much of the data missing from the microfilms. In this and in other researches I found the India Office and records, as Brian Robson reported to me, “unhelpful.” Further requests to work with the original manuscripts, as briefly and carefully as possible, were denied on the grounds that they were too fragile to be used. I was able, however, during the brief time (a single day only) I was allowed to examine them to observe that the pages had undergone recent conservation which, in many places had been done as carelessly as the original microfilming. Light numbering of the pages in pencil did not conform to the original light pencil numbering, and in many places the fragile folded or torn corners and/or edges had simply been brushed away and many pages were less complete than at the date of the microfilm print, or the microfilm from which it had been made. Hence, a number of names, or additional data contained in the manuscripts now no longer exist in the original manuscripts. I delayed publication of this second edition in the hope that eventual retirement of members of staff might furnish, in the India Office Library and Records, an opportunity to complete my work with the original manuscripts, that it might be possible under more generous and understanding staff, especially after the India Office Library and Records was transferred to the newly constructed British Library as part of the India and Oriental Collections (IOC). This was not, however, forthcoming, even after the retirement and subsequent death of Anthony Farrington, (a scholar who certainly well understood the necessity to work with manuscripts) and who had earlier been the chief obstructionist to my work.

A continuing disappointment is the lack of photographs that surely were taken during the war and which I feel certain still reside in private collections. John Burke is the only professional photographer whose work exists, probably in its entirety, in several publications, libraries, museums, and usually less complete sets in private collections. We know there were a great number of photographs taken, but probably most of these are the work of professional photographers employed by English language newspapers published in the major cities of India. We know also from mention in contemporary books and diaries that a great many more photographs were taken. The smaller, more portable, camera was quite new and a novelty at the time of the war and that many men in service during the war carried cameras and took photographs wherever they were stationed. Yet, hardly any of what must be many hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs have been discovered. We know, for instance, that prominent military and civilians with cameras were in Kandahar -- Maj. Augustus Le Messurier, Royal Engineers, Surg.-Maj. Wilkins Sandom Whylock, M.D., Army Medical Department (Bengal), Mr. Carl Ludolf Griesbach, Survey of India, Brig.-Gen. Charles M. Mac Gregor, Surg. William Owen, Indian Medical Department (who later accompanied the party establishing the Afghanistan-Russian borderline), Benjamin Simpson, M.D., Bengal Medical Department, and doubtless many junior officers -- who altogether took hundreds of photographs within and around the city, but the only photographs we have are those of B. Simpson, in uncertainly complete and very rare sets taken in the months between the end of the war (1 Sept. 1880) and the evacuation of the troops in late April 1881.

The present edition, therefore, is still an incomplete record of the names and contains errors and lacunae. However, the annotations to other sources, records of photographs, books and articles on, or by, those listed here, burial sites of those killed in action or died from wounds or disease, constitutes the most complete record likely to be available for many years. During the years separating the first and second editions which contained the names of officers only, Brian Robson, CB, strongly urged me to undertake an edition containing the names of all non-commissioned officers and men for the sake not only of military historians, but for many families who often have made inquiries of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia about relatives they believed had participated in the war. My regret is that this brilliant and prolific writer on military history did not live to see this work in print. He was not only a friend, but a mentor, as well as my best critic, and is sorely missed.. His last work, on the British war with China during the 1860s, was almost complete at the time of his death.

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The genesis of the present work was in a personal need to identify several hundred persons mentioned by two participants in the Second Afghan War whose diaries I edited for publication in the mid eighties. This task, not in every instance resolved thoroughly or accurately, was complicated by my diarists' habit of supplying surnames only. It took me the better part of a year to complete this work, and even then there remained a considerable number of unidentified people. By the time I had reached the seeming end to my ability to shed light on the remaining mysterious names, I had a file of over one thousand names inscribed on cards. Since most of the names I needed to identify were officers who had served in Afghanistan during the war, I relied heavily on the volumes of Sydney Shadbolt who published, in his history of the war, lists of all (or so I then thought) the British officers who had served with the staff, regiments, brigades, corps, and departments, of the British and Indian armies. A few men from the Other Ranks who had distinguished themselves in the prosecution of the war were also included by Shadbolt in his first volume entitled "Historical Division." But these lists are, for the most part, not in alphabetical order, and there is no index. Instead, Shadbolt recorded most (but hardly all, I later discovered) of those regiments, brigades, corps, and departments, employed in Afghanistan during the war, and the officers were thus included in these regimental lists, but not in alphabetical arrangement. Since the citations in the diaries I was editing rarely identified the regiments with the their names, and sometimes without clear indication as to whether the number had reference to the British or the Indian army (or to the 1861 designations, or 1881 reorganization of the Order of Precedence of British Army) many frustrating hours were spent paging through Shadbolt's compilations searching for particular individuals. The process was further complicated by the frequency of identical names in different regiments, necessitating further research to determine the specific individual to which my authors referred. Of course, my task would have been made easier if I had had had during the course of my labors ready access to the annually published army lists. But copies of these are extremely rare in the United States. At any rate, these are concerned with officers only, and my need quite exceeded such limitations.

When I had completed the annotations to the diaries I published, I determined to compile an alphabetical list of all the officers contained in Shadbolt's volumes as I had reason to believe that I would have future need for these names and I did not look forward to paging slowly through Shadbolt's work each time I required a new identification. Furthermore, most of the names in Shadbolt are cited by surname only, with initials only of the Christian names. This common practice in British publications can be quite tiresome when one requires full and precise documentation and considers the frequency with which one encounters such surnames as, for example, Smith and Jones.

At the conclusion of my editing of the diaries I began, for my own purposes, to compile an alphabetical list of the officers contained in Shadbolt's useful volumes, and by May 1987 I had completed this work. The list contained approximately five thousand names. Ten copies of this work were printed and presented to individuals and organizations I presumed would find the work of some value for their own purposes. As a result, I received a number of comments on how the list might be improved and augmented. One suggestion, which I chose to heed, was that the work be expanded to include not just the officers who had served in the war, but everyone who had crossed the frontier into Afghanistan during the period of the war and who may or may not have been connected in some way with the prosecution of the war, but who would probably not otherwise have been in Afghanistan at that time. Apart from constituting a task of prodigeous proportions, it would also prove to be an impossible one, for many persons crossed the vaguely defined frontier into Afghanistan (especially merchants), for whom no easily accessible records are available. Indeed, there is every likelihood that no such records exist. But such a work would, in fact, approximate the implicit claim set forth in the title of this book.

Grateful acknowledgment is particularly owed to Brian Robson, CB, himself an outstanding authority on the Second Afghan War (as well as the First and Third), for his many helpful suggestions on the organization and presentation of the list, and for several names that were not found in official sources. I am further obliged to him for agreeing to the arduous task of carefully looking through large portions of the completed manuscript for consistency and accuracy. John Falconer, of the National Maritime Museum, provided valuable data on Surgeon Benjamin Simpson, one of the two important photographers in Afghanistan during, and immediately after, the war. I am indebted also to Jonathan Lee and to Omar Khan for helpful leads on my many searches through printed and manuscript records.

I do not presume the present list to be complete, especially in the area of biographies or personal memoirs. Many merchants, civilians, adventurers, and even tourists, entered Afghanistan during the years of the war and very few of these could be included for lack of tangible record. While it might, with great effort and much time, be possible to add some insignificant proportion of these names from widely dispersed records in India and England, I shall leave this task to whomever may wish to assume it. The present list is primarily restricted to the military because the records were initially fairly well kept and are, for the most part, preserved. To the military establishment have been added a few citations to journalists, photographers, and members of the Civil Service, frontier police, and civilians of various positions within India who were called upon to serve in Afghanistan. No attempt has been made to recover all citations to officers who served in the war; these are readily available in the various histories and memoirs of the period. For these, only basic citations have been included when I noted them in the course of compiling the list. The list is intended only as a point of departure for researches.

I cannot claim either that, in spite of considerable effort and devotion, it is an accurate list. It perpetuates most of the errors inherent in its sources, and doubtless fresh ones have been introduced for which I alone am responsible. The present list I consider to be little more than a skeleton, one which I sincerely hope will be nourished by future researchers.

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|The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O
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Organization

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The names contained in the following list are in systematic rather than strictly alphabetical order. A consistent system was required in order to avoid an inevitable arbitrariness in placement which would have resulted from strict adherence to the alphabet. This may sound more contradictory than it is. When confronted with, say, eighteen individuals known only as "J. Smith," the alphabet alone is inadequate to assure anything beyond arbitrary grouping. Military rank could not be relied upon, quite apart from the fact that several of our "J. Smiths" might have held the same rank. Much variation has been observed in this area, according to sources consulted. While many authors, in writing of the Second Afghan War, assign participants ranks they held at the conclusion of hostilities, or even later, after the general promotions customary at the conclusion of wars, for the sake of consistency I have tried to assign to each person the rank held at the time of service during the war (including promotions and demotions), as set forth either in the Medal Rolls, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years, ignoring local ranks and brevets unless held at the time of service in the war (not briefly for some war-related event or period; these are separately noted). Many officers will, therefore, appear to have lower ranks than they are commonly accorded while among the other ranks subsequent demotions and promotions are not reflected here, unless they occurred during the period of the war and are noted in the contemporary records.

The following basic decisions were made in order to eliminate the arbitrary factor and achieve a list where each name can appear only in the place it does. For the British Army, this system combines the alphabet with the 1861 Order of Precedence, the one pertinent to the period of the war. Unfortunately (for our purposes) the Order of Precedence and designations of the regiments were changed in 1881, shortly after the conclusion of the war. Hence, many authors, writing after the war, in citing the names and numbered (or simply the Territorial names) regiments of men who served in the war, employ the 1881 Order of Precedence with its revised designations, and thus compound the confusion. This is particularly the case in Shadbotl, and to a lesser extent in Hart’s Annual Army List. The 1861 Order of Precedence has been published many times, but I include it here since it is crucial to finding a name in the lists. It might be noted, as well, that there is no absolute standard in the citations to the 1861 Order of Precedence, and I have followed no single source. In general, I have followed the format of Hart's Annual Army List for 1880 for officers, but at times have diverged when it was at odds with other sources of equal authority. Hence, the list I include here is that I have employed throughout this work, but it should present no problems in relation to others from the period.

I have followed the same general procedure with respect to the Indian Native Regiments of the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies. The names and numerical designations of many regiments were changed in the years following the war (though a major reorganization did not take place until 1903), and some of the spellings (viz. Kemaoon vs. Kumaon, with the 3rd Goorkha Regt.) now seem old-fashioned, awkward, or quaint.

The order in which the regiments of the lndian Army appear here, and their numerical designations, are according to Hart's Annual Army List for 1880, with additional reference to S. Shadbolt (Historical Division, pp. 251-352), and other sources listed in the Bibliography. Additional reference has been made to the authoritative work by Boris Mollo, '''The Indian Army''' (Poole: Blandford, 1981) to which the user of this list may wish to turn for a more exhaustive treatment of this subject. The order of the regiments as bound in the Medal Rolls occasionally differs from that of the 1861 Order of Precedence. Since it was the primary source employed in compiling this register, I have adhered to the order in the Medal Rolls.

If two "J. Smiths" appear in the same regiment, corps, brigade, or department, the one with the lower regimental number precedes the higher, irrespective of rank, Company, or Brigade. Some officers of the Staff who, during the war were not attached to a particular regiment, are listed before those of the same name with regimental affiliation. Additionally, officers of a regiment with the same name as a regular soldier with regimental number, will precede these. Officers and men attached temporarily to other regiments during the war are normally listed under their permanent affiliation (if known), with a notation of the attachment. The regiments, corps, departments of the Indian Army follow listings for the British Army. Medical officers are included with the regiments with which they served, if known; otherwise they appear in their respective medical departments, along with commissariat, transport, clergy, and civilians, following military with the same name. Transfers between regiments and brigades, when known and verifiable, are also given in annotations, but the transfers are recorded with the Regiment, Battalion, or Brigade, normally are retained where they had been at the beginning of the war.

The alphabetical organization is based primarily upon surname followed by first Christian name. When only the initial letter of the first Christian name is known, it precedes identical surnames where the full Christian name is known. Hence, "J. Smith" always precedes "Jacob, James, John, Jaylon Smith." The order in which both the "J. Smiths" and the "John Smiths" appear depends upon their regiments and regimental numbers, as previously noted. Additional names beyond the first Christian name are not considered alphabetically since so few are known. Therefore, while " J. Smith" will always precede "John Smith," in the same regiment, it is possible for "Smith, Lieut. John William" to precede "Smith, Lieut. John James," since following the first Christian name the regimental number and/or Order of Precedence, becomes the determining factor.

British Army Order of Precedence 1861

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The following list contains the complete Order of Precedence. While not every regiment was involved in the war, individual officers from nearly every regiment were present in some capacity, attached temporarily to other regiments, or simply visiting the country at this time. A handily available complete list can be found in David Ascoli, '''A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983''' (London: Harrap, 1983) pp. 80-83, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years. Some differences occur, and there are slight variations from both in the following list. The one given here is the primary Order followed in the present work. The Order of Precedence was changed in 1882, soon after the end of the Second Afghan War and some of the sources, published after the war, have referred to the new Order.

== Royal Horse Artillery ==
See separate list for order of Brigades

* lst Life Guards
* 2nd Life Guards
* Royal Horse Guards
=== Brigades of the Royal Horse Artillery ===

* D/A R.H.A. D Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/A R.H.A. E Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* F/A R.H.A. F Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* G/A R.H.A. G Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* I/A R.H.A. I Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* A/B R.H.A. A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* B/B R.H.A. B Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* C/B R.H.A. C Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* D/B R.H.A. D Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/B R.H.A. E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* A/C R.H.A. A Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* B/C R.H.A. B Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* E/C R.H.A. E Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* H/C R.H.A. H Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* I/C R.H.A. I Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
* F/H R.H.A. F Battery H Brigade Royal Horse Artillery

== Cavalry ==
* 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards
* 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
* 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
* 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
* 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
* 1st (Royal) Dragoons
* 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
* 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
* 4th (The Queens's Own) Hussars
* 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
* 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
* 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
* 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
* 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
* 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
* llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
* 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
* 13th Hussars
* 14th (The King's) Hussars
* 15th (The King's) Hussars
* 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
* 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
* 18th Hussars
* 19th Hussars
* 20th Hussars
* 21st Hussars

== Royal Regiment of Artillery ==

See separate list for order of brigades; here only those brigades included in the present work are listed.
=== Brigades of the Royal Artillery ===

* C/1 R.A. C Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/1 R.A. H Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* I/1 R.A. I Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* M/1 R.A. M Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/2 R.A. C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* D/2 R.A. D Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/2 R.A. E Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/2 R.A. F Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* N/2 R.A. N Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/3 R.A. A Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* B/3 R.A. B Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/3 R.A. C Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/3 R.A. E Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/3 R.A. F Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* G/3 R.A. G Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/3 R.A. H Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/4 R.A. A Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* B/4 R.A. B Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* C/4 R.A. C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* D/4 R.A. D Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* E/4 R.A. E Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* F/4 R.A. F Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* G/4 R.A. G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
* H/5 R.A. H Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* K/5 R.A. K Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* L/5 R.A. L Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* O/5 R.A. O Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
* N/6 R.A. N Battery 6th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 20/7 R.A. 20th Battery 7th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 1/8 R.A. 1st Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 5/8 R.A. 5th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 6/8 R.A. 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/8 R.A. 10th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/8 R.A. 11th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/8 R.A. 13th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 15/8 R.A. 15th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 16/8 R.A. 16th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 17/8 R.A. 17th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 18/8 R.A. 18th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 19/8 R.A. 19th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 3/9 R.A. 3rd Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/9 R.A. 10th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/9 R.A. 11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 12/9 R.A. 12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/9 R.A. 13th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 14/9 R.A. 14th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 15/9 R.A. 15th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 8/10 R.A. 8th Battery 10th Brigade Royal Artillery
* A/11 R.A. A Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 5/11 R.A. 5th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 6/11 R.A. 6th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 8/11 R.A. 8th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 9/11 R.A. 9th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 10/11 R.A. 10th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 11/11 R.A. 11th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 13/16 R.A. 13th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery
* 16/16 R.A. 16th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery

== Corps of Royal Engineers ==

* Bengal Sappers and Miners (late Bengal Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
* Madras Sappers and Miners (late Madras Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
* Bombay Sappers and Miners (late Bombay Sappers and Miners)

== Regiments of Foot ==

* Grenadier Guards
* Coldstream Guards
* Scots Guards
* 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment
* 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment
* 3rd (East Kent - The Buffs) Regiment
* 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment
* 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment
* 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment
* 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 8th (The King's) Regiment
* 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment
* 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment
* 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment
* 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment
* 13th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Albert's Light Infantry Regiment
* 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
* 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regiment
* 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment
* 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment
* 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment
* 19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment (Princess of Wales's Own)
* 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment
* 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment
* 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
* 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment
* 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment
* 25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment
* 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment
* 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment
* 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment
* 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment
* 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment
* 31st (The Huntingdonshire) Regiment
* 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry Regiment
* 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
* 34th (The Cumberland) Regiment
* 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment
* 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment
* 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment
* 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment
* 39th (The Dorsetshire) Regiment
* 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment
* 41st (The Welsh) Regiment
* 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment (The Black Watch)
* 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment
* 44th (The East Essex) Regiment
* 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
* 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment
* 47th (Lancashire) Regiment
* 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment
* 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Herefordshire) Regiment
* 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment
* 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment
* 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Regiment
* 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment
* 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment
* 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment
* 56th (West Essex) Regiment
* 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment
* 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment
* 60th The King's Royal Rifle Corps
* 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment
* 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment
* 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment
* 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment
* 66th (Berkshire) Regiment
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
* 68th (Durham) Light Infantry Regiment
* 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment
* 70th (Surrey) Regiment
* 71st (Highland) Light Infantry Regiment
* 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment
* 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment
* 74th (Highlanders) Regiment
* 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment
* 76th Regiment of Foot
* 77th (East Middlesex) The Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment
* 78th (Highland) Regiment, The Ross-shire Buffs
* 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment
* 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment
* 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment
* 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
* 83rd (County Dublin) Regiment
* 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment
* 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment
* 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment
* 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment
* 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment
* 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment
* 90th (Perthshire Volunteers - Light Infantry) Regiment
* 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment
* 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment
* 94th Regiment of Foot
* 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment
* 96th Regiment of Foot
* 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment
* 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment
* 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment
* 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment
* 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment
* 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment
* 104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
* 105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment
* 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment
* 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment
* 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment
* 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment
* The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade

* 1st West India Regiment
* 2nd West India Regiment

The above departments and regiments are followed by (but not part of) the 1861 Order of Precedence:

* Commissariat and Transport Department
* Ordnance Store Department
* Army Pay Department
* Army Medical Department
* Veterinary Department
* Chaplains' Department
* Royal Marine Artillery
* Royal Marine Light Infantry

Note: When members of the above departments are attached, for the period of their service, to a regiment, as was frequently the case during the Second Afghan War, they appear with that regiment rather than under their respective departments.

British Army Order of Precedence 1861

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Organization

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The names contained in the following list are in systematic rather than strictly alphabetical order. A consistent system was required in order to avoid an inevitable arbitrariness in placement which would have resulted from strict adherence to the alphabet. This may sound more contradictory than it is. When confronted with, say, eighteen individuals known only as "J. Smith," the alphabet alone is inadequate to assure anything beyond arbitrary grouping. Military rank could not be relied upon, quite apart from the fact that several of our "J. Smiths" might have held the same rank. Much variation has been observed in this area, according to sources consulted. While many authors, in writing of the Second Afghan War, assign participants ranks they held at the conclusion of hostilities, or even later, after the general promotions customary at the conclusion of wars, for the sake of consistency I have tried to assign to each person the rank held at the time of service during the war (including promotions and demotions), as set forth either in the Medal Rolls, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years, ignoring local ranks and brevets unless held at the time of service in the war (not briefly for some war-related event or period; these are separately noted). Many officers will, therefore, appear to have lower ranks than they are commonly accorded while among the other ranks subsequent demotions and promotions are not reflected here, unless they occurred during the period of the war and are noted in the contemporary records.

The following basic decisions were made in order to eliminate the arbitrary factor and achieve a list where each name can appear only in the place it does. For the British Army, this system combines the alphabet with the 1861 Order of Precedence, the one pertinent to the period of the war. Unfortunately (for our purposes) the Order of Precedence and designations of the regiments were changed in 1881, shortly after the conclusion of the war. Hence, many authors, writing after the war, in citing the names and numbered (or simply the Territorial names) regiments of men who served in the war, employ the 1881 Order of Precedence with its revised designations, and thus compound the confusion. This is particularly the case in Shadbotl, and to a lesser extent in Hart’s Annual Army List. The 1861 Order of Precedence has been published many times, but I include it here since it is crucial to finding a name in the lists. It might be noted, as well, that there is no absolute standard in the citations to the 1861 Order of Precedence, and I have followed no single source. In general, I have followed the format of Hart's Annual Army List for 1880 for officers, but at times have diverged when it was at odds with other sources of equal authority. Hence, the list I include here is that I have employed throughout this work, but it should present no problems in relation to others from the period.

I have followed the same general procedure with respect to the Indian Native Regiments of the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies. The names and numerical designations of many regiments were changed in the years following the war (though a major reorganization did not take place until 1903), and some of the spellings (viz. Kemaoon vs. Kumaon, with the 3rd Goorkha Regt.) now seem old-fashioned, awkward, or quaint.

The order in which the regiments of the lndian Army appear here, and their numerical designations, are according to Hart's Annual Army List for 1880, with additional reference to S. Shadbolt (Historical Division, pp. 251-352), and other sources listed in the Bibliography. Additional reference has been made to the authoritative work by Boris Mollo, The Indian Army (Poole: Blandford, 1981) to which the user of this list may wish to turn for a more exhaustive treatment of this subject. The order of the regiments as bound in the Medal Rolls occasionally differs from that of the 1861 Order of Precedence. Since it was the primary source employed in compiling this register, I have adhered to the order in the Medal Rolls.

If two "J. Smiths" appear in the same regiment, corps, brigade, or department, the one with the lower regimental number precedes the higher, irrespective of rank, Company, or Brigade. Some officers of the Staff who, during the war were not attached to a particular regiment, are listed before those of the same name with regimental affiliation. Additionally, officers of a regiment with the same name as a regular soldier with regimental number, will precede these. Officers and men attached temporarily to other regiments during the war are normally listed under their permanent affiliation (if known), with a notation of the attachment. The regiments, corps, departments of the Indian Army follow listings for the British Army. Medical officers are included with the regiments with which they served, if known; otherwise they appear in their respective medical departments, along with commissariat, transport, clergy, and civilians, following military with the same name. Transfers between regiments and brigades, when known and verifiable, are also given in annotations, but the transfers are recorded with the Regiment, Battalion, or Brigade, normally are retained where they had been at the beginning of the war.

The alphabetical organization is based primarily upon surname followed by first Christian name. When only the initial letter of the first Christian name is known, it precedes identical surnames where the full Christian name is known. Hence, "J. Smith" always precedes "Jacob, James, John, Jaylon Smith." The order in which both the "J. Smiths" and the "John Smiths" appear depends upon their regiments and regimental numbers, as previously noted. Additional names beyond the first Christian name are not considered alphabetically since so few are known. Therefore, while " J. Smith" will always precede "John Smith," in the same regiment, it is possible for "Smith, Lieut. John William" to precede "Smith, Lieut. John James," since following the first Christian name the regimental number and/or Order of Precedence, becomes the determining factor.