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
Forbes
First Names
Oswald Eric Stuart
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
3rd Regt (The Kings Own) Hussars
Medal Rolls
MR9
Died / Killed / KIA
11 Dec 1879
Source abbrevs
SH262 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / F98
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
IOL&R N/1/173 / Mitford To Caubul
Original Text from book
Forbes, Lieut. Oswald Eric Stuart, 3rd Regt. (The Kings Own) Hussars; B.S.C. (Probationer) 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers) MR9, k. Kabul 11 Dec. 1879, SH262, [omitted from SB, but SB, p. 102, s.v. Hardy, mentions] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658a, F98, KIA Arghandi, Kabul 11 Dec. 1879, IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kabul/Sherpur) See also Mitford, To Caubul, p. 153 for account of his death (Ed.)
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [KIA] Killed in action. 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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