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
Gregson
First Names
J Gelson
Rank
Rev
Original Text from book
Gregson, Rev. J. Gelson, at Kabul/Sherpur Dec. 1879 - Jan. 1880; founder of the Soldiers Total Abstinence Association; officiated at burial of a soldier of the 72nd Regt. Kabul/Sherpur cemetery 12 Dec. 1879 (pp. 53-54); pub. Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp, Cabul. An Account of Temperrance Work among our Soldiers in the Cabul Field Force. London: Elliot Stock, 1883 (pp. viii + 132, orig. mounted photograph of author as frontispiece, 6 engraved illustrations, including a folding panorama of Sherpur Camp)
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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