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
Beresford
First Names
John Blakeney de la Poer
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
3rd Regt Punjab Cavalry
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR8 [2refs] / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH302 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / Burke
Original Text from book
Beresford, Lieut. John Blakeney de la Poer. B.S.C. (Provisionally) 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry, F.F.F., MR8 (2 refs.) SH302; 68th (Durham) Light Infantry Regt., HAAL:79, HAAL:80; M.S.C., 3rd Regt. Punjab Cavalry, P.F.F., HAAL:81, HAAL:82; M.S.C., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14; photo NAM (neg. 3360) Burke 237 (a), (neg. 6198) Burke 237 [see Anderson, Maj. W.C.]
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier or Field Force / [MSC] Madras Staff Corps
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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