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
Frome
First Names
St John Thomas
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
1 Sep 1880
Source abbrevs
SH232 / SB81 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / F88
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt / NAM / B&S
Original Text from book
Frome, Capt. St. John Thomas, 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6, KIA [Kandahar] 1 Sept. 1880, SH232, SB81, KIA Kandahar 1 Sept. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657, F88; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, KIA Kandahar 1 Sept. 1880; photo Shadbolt, pl. VI. NAM (neg. 28806) B&S 100
Transcriber remarks
[RE] Royal Engineers / [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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