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
Battye
First Names
Wigram
Rank
Maj
Regiment / Department
Queens Own Corps of Guides PFF
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR10
Died / Killed / KIA
2 Apr 1879
Source abbrevs
SH306 / SB12 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / BACSA / JSAHR
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Gregson Through the Khyber Pass / biog E D Battye The Fighting Ten / photo Shadbolt / NAM / JSAHR
Original Text from book
Battye, Maj. Wigram, B.S.C., Queens Own Corps of Guides, P.F.F., MR10, KIA Fatehabad 2 April 1879, SH306, SB12, KIA Futtehabad 2 April 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658, Gregson, Through the Khyber Pass, p. 32; body later moved to the Guides cemetery at Mardan (Ed.); biog. E.D. Battye, The Fighting Ten, Putney, London, 1984; photo Shadbolt, pl. II, NAM (neg. 23902) Burke 30, JSAHR vol 69, no. 279, pl. facing p. 167
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier or Field Force / [KIA] Killed in action. Also listed in Annex 2, MORTALITY. Trousdale The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881.
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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