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
Bushby
First Names
Charles Metcalfe
Rank
Maj
Regiment / Department
11th Regt Bengal NI
Died / Killed / KIA
Feb 1879
Source abbrevs
SH270 / HAAL79 / HAAL80
Original Text from book
Bushby, Maj. Charles Metcalfe, B.S.C., 11th Regt. Bengal N.I., SH270, invalided, d. Feb. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 657 (deceased; place unrec.]
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [NI] Native Infantry / [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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