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
Lea
First Names
H R
Rank
[Lieut ?]
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineer(
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo REI / Scott Moncrieff Canals Campaigns
Original Text from book
Lea, [Lieut.?] H.R., R.E.; photo (neg. [?] ) REI, by Lieutt. Ancrum, Safed Sang, spring 1879 [identification at source uncertain; prob. ident. to Lieut. H.P. Leach, R.E., q.v.] Scott Moncrieff, Canals & Campaigns, p. 49 [copies prob. error from same REI photo]
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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