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
Colborne
First Names
Francis Lionel Lydston
Rank
Lieut Hon
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 83rd (County Dublin) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR7
Source abbrevs
HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Colborne, Lieut. the Hon. Francis Lionel Lydston, 1st Battn. 83rd (County Dublin) Regt., MR6, MR7 (2 refs.) Transport, employed at Kandahar, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82
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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