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
Whiteford
First Names
William Whiteford Bell
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
Royal Engineers (Bengal Sappers and Miners)
Medal Rolls
MR2 / MR8
Source abbrevs
HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Whiteford, Capt. William Whiteford Bell, R.E. (Bengal Sappers and Miners) MR2 [= Capt. W.B. Whiteford] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81 and HAAL:82 [= Lieut., Bombay Sappers and Miners] [ident. to following]
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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