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
Cowie
First Names
Crombie
Rank
Maj
Regiment / Department
Royal Artillery (late Bengal Artillery) Commissary Ordnance (lst Class)
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR9 / MR13
Source abbrevs
SH124 / SH184 /HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Ellis
Original Text from book
Cowie, Maj. Crombie, R.A. (late Bengal Artillery) MR9 [struck out] SH124, SH184; Commissary Ordnance (lst Class) MR3, HAAL:79, HAAL:80 (2nd Class) HAAL:81, HAAL:82 [Index: for p. 177, read p. 178] Commissary of Ordnance, Kandahar Field Force; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, MR3; in Charge Ordnance Field Park, R.A., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13; photo Ellis no. 50
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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