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
Rice Henn
First Names
James Thomas
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineers (Bengal Sappers and Miners)
Medal Rolls
MR2
Died / Killed / KIA
23 Dec 1879
Source abbrevs
SH142 / SH190 / SB182 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Rice Henn, Lieut. James Thomas, R.E. (Bengal Sappers and Miners) Asst. Field Engineer, Khyber Line Force, MR2 (deceased) SH142, SH190, SB182, contracted virulent typhoid upon reaching Thal; d. at his brother’s house at Kohat 23 Dec. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80 [Index: p. 211, but should be 658 or 658a, deceased] HAAL:81, p. 657; photo Shadbolt, pl. XIV [surname usually given as Rice, but called Rice Henn by both officers and other ranks; see entry for Henn which contains contrary data (Ed.)]
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. Also listed in Annex 2, MORTALITY. Trousdale The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881.
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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