Our thanks to William Trousdale, who permitted FIBIS to create this searchable database of the A-Z name index found in his book, The British in Afghanistan, vol I.
Below is a list of the most frequently used abbreviations and acronyms.
Surname
Ball Acton
First Names
Charles
Rank
Col
Regiment / Department
51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) (The Kings Own Light Infantry)
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR5
Source abbrevs
HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Memoir Colonel Ball Acton CB by Arnold Green
Original Text from book
Ball Acton, Col. Charles, 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The Kings Own Light Infantry) Regt., MR5 [= Ball Acton] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, and HAAL:82 [= Acton, Charles Ball]; memoir: Colonel Ball-Acton, C.B., an Appreciation Compiled Chiefly from His Letters and Journals, by Arnold Green. Guildford: Privately printed, 1906
Systematic Compilation of Officers, Other Ranks, Civil Officials, and Other Individuals Present in Afghanistan during The Second Afghan War. Annotated with references to military service, diaries, memoirs, biographies and photographs.
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