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
Stayner
First Names
Lieut
Rank
Francis Charles
Regiment / Department
19th Regt Bombay NI
Medal Rolls
MR9 / MR15
Died / Killed / KIA
16 Aug 1880
Source abbrevs
SH333 / SB210 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / F146
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Stayner, Lieut. Francis Charles, Bo.S.C., l9th Regt. Bombay N.I., MR9, KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880, MR15, SH333, SB210, KIA Deh Khwaja sortie 16 Aug. 1880, "...interred the same evening with those of four other officers in separate graves in a corner of the new garden cemetery, the burial service being read by the Rev. A. Cane." HAAL:79 [= Sub Lieut. 5th Regt. Foot] HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657, F146; photo Shadbolt, pl. XVI
Transcriber remarks
[Bo SC] Bombay Staff Corps / [NI] Native Infantry / [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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