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
Cook
First Names
John
Rank
Bt Maj
Regiment / Department
5th Goorkha Regt (The Hazara Goorkha Battn) (PFF) Punjab Field Force
IOL&R N/1/173 / ref Parry / Gregson Through the Khyber Pass / biog and photo Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / photo Shadbolt / RVC
Original Text from book
Cook, Bt. Maj. John, V.C., B.S.C., 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battn.) P.F.F., MR9, d. Kabul Dec. 1879, SH124, SH298, SB52, d. of gunshot wounds 19 Dec. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 657, F113, F155, IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kabul/Sherpur; burial memorial stone extant); ref. Parry, pp. 216-218, 307, Gregson, Through the Khyber Pass, pp. 51, 62, 64, buried Kabul/Sherpur 20 Dec. 1879; biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris, The Victoria Cross, p. 88; photo Shadbolt, pl. IV, RVC, p. 69, no. 246; memorial in St. Lukes church, Abbotabad, transfered to St. Lukes Church, Chelsea, London, ca. 1950 [comm. Theon Wilkinson] [Willasey-Wilsey, 1993, reports grave stone still in Kabul/Sherpur cemetery)
Transcriber remarks
[VC] Victoria Cross / [BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [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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