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
Gaisford
First Names
Cecil Henry
Rank
Sub Lieut
Regiment / Department
72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6
Died / Killed / KIA
14 Dec 1879
Source abbrevs
SH232 / SB82 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / F88
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt / IOL&R N/1/173
Original Text from book
Gaisford, Sub Lieut. Cecil Henry, 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6, KIA [date illegible] SH232, SB82, KIA Kabul 14 Dec. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658a, F88, Gregson, Through the Khyber Pass, p. 48 [ident. only as Lieut. G----; may be Lieut. Gore-Langton, or 2nd Lieut. Greer, q.v.] and p. 55, p. 62 (refers to making a list of his kit, "He was a fine young officer, and an only son. He was the last man shot on that dreadful 14th when the 72nd lost so many brave men." [surely Gaisford]); photo Shadbolt, pl. VII, IOL&R N/1/173 [= Charles Henry] (buried Kabul/-Sherpur) [burial gravestone extant 1993 (Willasey-Wilsey)]
Transcriber remarks
[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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