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.
Flinders Diary of the March / photo Shadbolt / Cane Kandahar Letters
Original Text from book
Cruickshank, Capt. George F[arquharson] Macdonald, R.E., (Bombay Sappers and Miners) SH124, SH190, SB61, KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657, F138, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 17 (16 Aug. 1880) "Brigadier General Brookes [Brooke], he was killed in trying to rescue another brother officer, Captain Cruickshank, R.E."; photo Shadbolt, pl. V; Cane, "Kandahar Letters," p. 215, reports on death at Deh Khwaja and that a party was not sent out to recover his body until 24 Aug. 1880
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] Killed In Action. 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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