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
Bishop
First Names
William Henry
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 11th (North Devonshire) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
23 Nov 1880
Source abbrevs
SH201 / SB19 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Corrie / photo Shadbolt / NAM
Original Text from book
Bishop, Lieut. William Henry, 2nd Battn. 11th (North Devonshire) Regt., MR4, d. [Kandahar] 23 Nov. 1880, SH201, SB19, d. Kandahar Nov. 1880, Corrie 24, d. Kandahar 23 Nov. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81 [Index: for p. 249, read p. 657 (omitted)] buried Kandahar; photo Shadbolt, pl. II; name appears on funerary monument at Kandahar in photo NAM (neg. 12979) B. Simpson 24, early 1881 (Ed.)
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. 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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