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
Sale Hill
First Names
Rowley
Rank
Col
Regiment / Department
1st Goorkha Regt (Light Infantry)
Medal Rolls
MR8
Source abbrevs
SH292/ HAAL79/ HAAL80/ HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Sale Hill, Col. Rowley, Bengal Infantry. Commandant 1st Goorkha Regt. (Light Infantry) MR8 (2 refs.) SH292, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81 and HAAL:82 [= Hill, Col. Rowley Sale, q.v.]
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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