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
Colquhoun
First Names
James Andrew Sutherland
Rank
Capt promoted to Maj
Regiment / Department
5th Battery 8th Brigade
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR9
Source abbrevs
SH123 / SH184 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / B&S / pub With The Kurram Field Force
Original Text from book
Colquhoun, Capt. (promoted to Maj.) James Andrew Sutherland, (late Bengal Artillery) 5/8 R.A., MR3, MR9 [struck out] SH123, SH184, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; photo NAM (neg. 23954) B&S 60; pub. With The Kurram Field Force, 1878-79, London: W.H. Allen, 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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