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
O'Brien
First Names
Edmund Donough John
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment
Medal Rolls
MR8 / MR14
Source abbrevs
SH274 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 and HAAL82
Original Text from book
O'Brien, Lieut. Edmund Donough John, 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regt.; B.S.C. (Probationer) attached 15th (The Loodianah) Regt., Bengal N.I., with Brig. Gen. C.M. MacGregors 3rd Bde. at Battle of Kandahar 1 Sept. 1880, MR8 (2 refs.) SH274, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81 and HAAL:82 [s.v. 40th Regt. Foot]; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14, reverted to 1st Battn. 40th Regt. Foot
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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