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.
The Graphic / Parry / Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / photo Shadbolt / NAM / Burke / RVC
Original Text from book
Dick Cunyngham, Lieut. William Henry, V.C., 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., MR6, SH124, SH240, SB262, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, F156, notice The Graphic, 28 Jan. 1882, p. 78, ref. Parry, p. 310; biog. n. Creagh and Humphris, The Victoria Cross, p. 101; engraving The Graphic, 28 Jan. 1882, p. 89, photo Shadbolt, pl. XX, NAM (neg. 6182) Burke 233, RVC, p. 79, no. 288
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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