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
Campbell
First Names
Alan Laird
Rank
2nd Lieut
Regiment / Department
1st Battalion 72nd(Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Source abbrevs
SH233 / HAAL79 /HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Campbell, 2nd Lieut. Alan Laird, 1st Battn. 72nd(Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6, SH233 HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; 14th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Alberts Light Infantry Regt., HAAL:79; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13
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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