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
Cavagnari
First Names
Pierre Louis Napoleon
Rank
Maj Sir
Regiment / Department
British Envoy at Kabul 1879
Medal Rolls
MR10
Died / Killed / KIA
3 Sep 1879
Source abbrevs
SH122 / SB37 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / F65
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt / NAM / Burke / MacGregor War in Afghanistan / Robson The Road to Kabul / Templer Auchinleck / biog Dey The Life and Career of Major Sir Louis Cavagnari
Original Text from book
Cavagnari, Maj. Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon (1841 79) B.S.C., MR10 [erroneously credits with V.C.], British Envoy at Kabul 1879, SH122, SB37, k. in siege of Kabul Residency 3 Sept. 1879, body never found, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658, F65; photo Shadbolt, pl. III, NAM (neg. 6177) Burke 102, (neg. 6297) Burke 100, (neg. 23913) Burke 85, (neg. 23914) Burke 84, MacGregor, War in Afghanistan, p. 50, Burke 102 and passim, Robson, The Road to Kabul, pls. fol. p. 156, three separate photos, Templer & Auchinleck, p. 60; biog. by Kalby Prosono Dey, The Life and Career of Major Sir Louis Cavagnari...., Calcutta: J.N. Ghose & Co., 1881; mil. service, Robson, The Road to Kabul, p. 284
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [VC] Victoria Cross / [k] killed. 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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