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Officers Killed - Afghanistan 1878-80
No.2 Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
Lieutenant Charles Alfred Montanaro - wounded at Kabul, 19th December
1879. died of wounds
Eldest son of Alfred Montanaro (Commissary, Ordnance Dept. Lincoln) and Caroline Birch. He was born 20th June 1855 and gazetted in 1874. In 1878 he joined No.2 Derajat Mountain Battery. On 19th December he was shot in the side at Kabul, the bullet lodging in his spine. He died the next day.
He had invented a time-fuze and a Pioneer's saddle, called the 'Montanaro
Pattern'.