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
Gall
First Names
Herbert Reay
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Source abbrevs
SH193 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Original Text from book
Gall, Lieut. Herbert Reay, 1st Battn. 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt., MR4 [faint in copyflow and microfilm; has to be read inverted] SH193, HAAL:79, HAAL:80 (retired with rank of Capt. 17 Dec. 1879); Capt., 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regt., HAAL:81; Capt., The Manchester Regt., HAAL:82
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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