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.
Flinders Diary of the March / Kandahar Letters / Robson Road to Kabul / photo Shadbolt / pub Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke
Original Text from book
Brooke, Col. and Brig. Gen. Henry Francis (1836-80) MR10, KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880, SH120, SB24, KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 656, F65, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 17 (16 Aug. 1880) "Brigadier General Brookes, he was killed in trying to rescue another brother officer, Captain Cruickshank, R.E."; highly praised by the Rev. Alfred Cane, "Kandahar Letters," p. 207, for his efforts to cover Maiwand survivors as they approached Kandahar; loc. cit., body not recovered from Deh Khwaja until 24 Aug. 1880; mil. service, Robson, The Road to Kabul, p. 284; photo Shadbolt, pl. III; pub. Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke ... from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880, Dublin: Wm. Curwen, 1881 (204pp.); a MS account of the sortie and events preceding, written by Gen. Brookes son, is retained in the family (Ed.)
Transcriber remarks
[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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