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
Justice
First Names
William Napier
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Jul 1880
Source abbrevs
SH341 / SB115 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / F149
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Justice, Lieut. William Napier, 1st Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., MR5 (attached 30th Regt. Bombay N.I. (Jacobs Rifles) MR5, SH341, SB115, KIA Maiwand 27 July 1880, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, p. 657, F149; photo Shadbolt, pl.IX
Transcriber remarks
[NI] Native Infantry / [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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