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
Facer
First Names
John A
Rank
Private
Regiment / Department
H Co 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regt
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
MS diary NAM acc
Original Text from book
Facer, Private John A. (____) H Co. 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regt.; MS diary NAM acc. no. 8301 131 Press No: 0583 [not in MR, unless error for following]
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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