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
Walter Richard Pollock
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
Queens Own Corps of Guides
Medal Rolls
VC / MR10
Died / Killed / KIA
3 Sep 1879
Source abbrevs
SH306 / SB98 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / F122 / F156
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
biog Parry / biog and photo Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross / photo Shadbolt / NAM / RVC
Original Text from book
Hamilton, Lieut. Walter Richard Pollock, V.C., Queens Own Corps of Guides, P.F.F., MR10, k. 3 Sept. 1879 in defense of Residency at Kabul, SH306, SB98, KIA Kabul Residency 3 Sept. 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658a, F122, F156; biog. Parry, p. 213ff., biog. and photo Creagh and Humphris The Victoria Cross, pp. 93-94, photo Shadbolt, pl. VIII, NAM (neg. 6175) Burke 73, (neg. 23902) Burke 30, RVC, p. 137, no. 520
Transcriber remarks
[VC] Victoria Cross / [PFF] Punjab Frontier or Field Force / [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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