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
Longe
First Names
Francis Beacon
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineers (Bengal Sappers and Miners)
Medal Rolls
MR2 / MR8 / MR13
Source abbrevs
SH135 / SH189 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / Burke / photo REI
Original Text from book
Longe, Lieut. Francis Bacon, R.E. (Bengal Sappers and Miners) MR2, Kandahar Survey Department (1st phase, Jan. June/July 1879) at Jugdulluk (2nd phase) MR8, SH135, SH189, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Survey Department, Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13; photo NAM (neg. 6188) Burke 207, (neg. 6189) Burke 209, (neg. 6222) Burke 269, (neg. 17225); photo REI album group 6/44, pp. 42 43; album of watercolors executed at Kandahar in REI Library, Chatham (some pub. in Trousdale, Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century, forthcoming)
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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