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
Young
First Names
Frederick Simon
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
Army Medical Department (Bengal)
Medal Rolls
MR7
Source abbrevs
SH250 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Young, Surq. Frederick Simon, M.B., Army Medical Department (Ben¬gal) MR7 (2 refs.) [“by his own account -- written by himself -- he did not get past Quetta, but it is possible he made a visit to Chaman and/or Kandahar] during 1st phase, "Contracted Dysentery at Quetta Jany 1878 [1879] for which disease I was finally Invalided to England,"] SH250, HAAL:79, HAAL:80; HAAL:81, HAAL:82, retired
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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