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
Tippetts
First Names
Alfred Malpas
Rank
Surg Maj and Bde Surg
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Source abbrevs
SH146 / SH249 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Gregson Through the Khyber Pass
Original Text from book
Tippetts, Surg.-Maj. and Bde. Surg. Alfred Malpas, 1st Battn. 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt., MR4; [faint in copyflow and microfilm; has to be read inverted] Army Medical Department, SH146, SH249, Gregson, Through the Khyber Pass, p. 22, in charge field hospital Jalalabad Nov. 1879; HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82
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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