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
Bolton
First Names
Robert Henry
Rank
SurgMaj
Regiment / Department
6th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR7
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Feb 1880
Source abbrevs
SH243 / SB23 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Bolton, Surg. Maj. Robert Henry, 6/11 R.A., Army Medical Department (Bombay) MR7 (deceased, date and place unrec.) SH243, SB23, d. Kandahar 27 Feb. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 658; photo Shadbolt, pl. II
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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