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
Wood
First Names
Frederic Philip Forster
Rank
2nd Lieut
Regiment / Department
56th Bde 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
16 Aug 1880
Source abbrevs
SH196 / SB249 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / IMI II
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Wood, 2nd Lieut. Frederic Philip Forster, 2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt., MR4 [=Frederick] KIA Deh Khwaja sortie 16 Aug. 1880, SH196, SB249, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 658, F75 [= Frederick] IMI, II,1, p. 182, IMI, II,2, p. 377; photo Shadbolt, pl. XIX
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] Killed in action. 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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