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
Spoor
First Names
Herbert Henry Shadforth
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 25th (The Kings Own Borderers) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
1 Jun 1880
Source abbrevs
SH212 / SB209 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Spoor, Lieut. Herbert Henry Shadforth, 1st Battn. 25th (The Kings Own Borderers) Regt., MR5, SH212, SB209, d. Pezwan of enteric fever 1 June 1880, buried Pezwan [near Safed Sang and Gandamak] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657; photo Shadbolt, pl. XVI
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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