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
Jackson
First Names
Thomas Wilson
Rank
Surg promoted to Surg Maj
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4 / MR7 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH246 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Jackson, Surg. (promoted to Surg. Maj.) Thomas Wilson, M.B., 2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt., MR4; Army Medical Department (Bombay), MR7 (2 refs.) entered Afghanistan March 1880, in medical charge of the European troops at Kalat i Ghilzai, July Aug. 1880, present at Battle of Kandahar 1 Sept. 1880, with Surg. Maj. [E.C.] Markeys Field Hospital of the 3rd Bde. [at Kandahar, commanded by Brig. Gen. C.M. MacGregor] SH246, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14, joined Force at Khelat i Ghilzai
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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