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
Cotton
First Names
Herbert
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Source abbrevs
SH244 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Cotton, Surg. Herbert, 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6, Army Medical Department (Bengal) SH244, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, Divisional Field Hospital
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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