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
Ross
First Names
Hugh Rose
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
12 Jun 1879
Source abbrevs
SH181 / SB186 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / IMI II
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Ross, Lieut. Hugh Rose, G/4 R.A., MR3, SH181, SB186, d. Pishin Valley camp of dysentery 12 Jan. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658, IMI, II,1, p. 182 (see Henry Rose; buried Kandahar); photo Shadbolt, pl. XIV [rather unlikely that body would have been carried nearly 100 miles to Kandahar for burial, and contrary to normal practice of burying deceased at an appropriate place close to where died (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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