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
Hamilton
First Names
Peter Fisher Perceival
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Source abbrevs
SH180 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Ellis / pub Letters from Lieut P F P Hamilton Lieut E O F Hamilton Lieut W Des V Hamilton
Original Text from book
Hamilton, Capt. Peter Fisher Perceival, A/B, R.H.A., MR3, SH180, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81 and HAAL:82 [= Lieut. P.F. Percival]; photo Ellis no. 59; pub. Letters from Lieut. P.F.P. Hamilton, R.H. Artillery; Lieut. E.O.F. Hamilton, 2nd Queens Royal Regt., from Afghanistan, 1878-80; and from Lieut. W. Des V. Hamilton, R.N., from Kaffraria and Zululand, 1877 78 79, Privately pub. 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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