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
Walsh
First Names
John Edward
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
Bengal Medical Department
Died / Killed / KIA
24 [23] Jul 1879
Source abbrevs
SH348 / SB230 /HAAL79 / HAAL80
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
IOL&R N/1/173 / photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Walsh, Surg. John Edward, Bengal Medical Department, SH348, SB230, d. Kandahar of cholera 24th [23rd] July 1879, "burial-ground outside Kandahar, where those of hundreds of his countrymen found a last resting-place forty years previously," HAAL:79 HAAL:80, p. 658a [omitted] IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kandahar); photo Shadbolt, pl. XVIII
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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