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
Watson
First Names
George
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
13th Regt Bengal Cavalry (Lancers) Bengal Medical Department
Medal Rolls
MR8
Died / Killed / KIA
25 Jul 1880
Source abbrevs
SH348 / SB233 / HAAL79 / HAAL80
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Watson, Surg. George, M.D., 13th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers), Bengal Medical Department, MR8 (2 refs.) SH348, SB233 [= M.B.] d. Peiwar Kotal of enteric fever 25 July 1880, buried "in the cemetery at Fort Kuram", HAAL:79, HAAL:80 [HAAL:81, p. 658, omitted]; 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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