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'Shea
First Names
Laurence
Rank
Private
Regiment / Department
A Company 2nd Batallion 60th The Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
pub Three Campaigns Reminiscences of an Ex Soldier and Sailor
Original Text from book
O'Shea, Private Laurence (____) A Co. 2nd Battn. 60th The Kings Royal Rifle Corps [not in MR5]; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880 [not in MR13]; pub. Three Campaigns. Reminiscences of an Ex Soldier and Sailor. London: Arthur H. Stockwell, n.d. [ca. 1916] [detailed account of daily life at Kandahar from the perspective of an Other Ranker (Ed.)]
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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