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
Ternan
First Names
Alexander Gore Breffney
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
1st Regt Sikh Infantry PFF
Medal Rolls
MR8 / MR8
Source abbrevs
HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82 / HAAL79
Original Text from book
Ternan, Lieut. Alexander Gore Breffney, B.S.C., 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry, P.F.F., "Served with [this regt.] as a temporary arrangement," MR8 (2 refs.); 24th Regt. (Punjab) Bengal N.I., MR8 (2 refs.); 35th (The Mynpoorie) Regt. Bengal N.I., HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) Regt., HAAL:79
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier Force / [NI] Native Infantry
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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