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
Lay
First Names
Tudor
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
15th (The Loodianah) Regt Bengal NI
Medal Rolls
MR8 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH274 / HAAL82 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Original Text from book
Lay, Lieut. Tudor, B.S.C. (Probationer) 15th (The Loodianah) Regt. Bengal N.I., MR8 (2 refs.) SH274, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14; Lieut., 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regt., HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81
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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