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
Burgess
First Names
William Armstrong
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
Army Medical Dept (Bengal)
Died / Killed / KIA
1880
Source abbrevs
SH244 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Original Text from book
Burgess, Surg. William Armstrong, M.D., Army Medical Department (Bengal) SH244, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, and HAAL:81, p.658 [= Burges] (deceased 1880)
Transcriber remarks
[MD] Doctor of Medicine / 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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