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# 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 BEFOREBEF'''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]# SACRED '''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.

... KILLED '''IN AFGHANISTANSINCE ''' 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. LOALL'''OAL'''.|-| --- J.F. CARLYSLE. || DIED OF '''WOUNDS'''|-| --- T. LARGE. || Pte. T. MabonM'''abon'''.|-| --- W. LLOYD. || --- F. WHALEYWH'''ALEY'''.|-| --- T. RUSSELL. || --- W. BIDWELLBID'''WELL''',|-| --- A. SMITH. || --- A. COLECO'''LE'''.|-| --- W. TILLOTSON. || DIED OF SICKNESSS'''ICKNESS'''|-| --- C. HEDGES. || Pte H. OAKES.|-| --- W. NEWSOME. || --- A. SULLY.|-| --- L. SWANN. || --- B. MURPHYMUR'''PHY'''.|-| --- R. WILKINSON. || '''Far. Mjr. A. MOORE'''.|- | || '''--- G. PYE'''|}