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
Beglar
Rank
Mr
Original Text from book
Beglar, Mr. [____] cit. by William Simpson in letter from Gandamak dated 26 May 1879, and pub. late May or early June in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) as photographing Buddhist ruins around Ali Musjid (comm. Omar Khan 19 Aug. 1991)
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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