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
Dobson
First Names
Alfred Edmund
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineers I Co Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queens Own)
Medal Rolls
MR12
Died / Killed / KIA
20 Jul 1880
Source abbrevs
SH190 / SB70 /HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 /
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Dobson, Lieut. Alfred Edmund, R.E., I Co. Corps of Madras Sappers and Miners (Queens Own) MR12 (3 refs.) Safed Sang 20 July 1880, SH190, SB70, d. Safed Sang 20 July 1880; Asst. Field Engineer, Khyber Field Force, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657; photo Shadbolt, pl. VI
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. 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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