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
Roberts
First Names
Walter
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Jul 1880
Source abbrevs
SH224 / SB185 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / F82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Roberts, Capt. Walter, 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6, KIA [Maiwand] 27 July 1880, SH224, SB185, KIA Maiwand 27 July 1880, buried Kandahar "in the palace garden [within the Citadel" 28 July 1880, Cane, âKandahr Letters,â p. 213 reports on burial of body 28 July 1880, at 11:00 p.m. [presumably because of intense heat during day] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657, F82; photo Shadbolt, pl. XIV
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] killed in action. 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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