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.
Parry / Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / photo Shadbolt / RVC
Original Text from book
Hammond, Capt. Arthur George, V.C., B.S.C., Wing Commander, Queens Own Corps of Guides, P.F.F., MR8 (2 refs.) SH306, SB263, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82, F157; Parry, p. 322, biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross, pp. 100-101, photo Shadbolt, pl. XX, RVC, p. 138, no. 521 [V.C. for conspicuous gallantry in action on the Koh-i Asmai heights, Kabul, 14 Dec. 1879 (SB263)]
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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