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
Beaufort
First Names
Francis
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Source abbrevs
SH180 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Ellis
Original Text from book
Beaufort, Lieut. Francis, A/B R.H.A., MR3, SH180, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; photo Ellis no. 85 [poss. ref. in MacGregor, War in Afghan-istan, p. 201, where he is visited at Kabul 25 June 1880 by a man of this surname, a cousin of Capt. Richard Lockwood, MacGregors deceased companion on his Baluchistan trip of 1877; only poss. military of this surname at this date on basis of HAAL (Ed.)]
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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