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
Powell
First Names
Charles Folliott
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
5th Goorkha Regt (The Hazara Goorkha Battalion)
Sick / Wounded
13 Dec 1878
Died / Killed / KIA
18 Dec 1878
Source abbrevs
SH298 / SB168 / HAAL79 / F113
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Powell, Capt. Charles Folliott, B.S.C., 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battn.) SH298, SB168, w. Tang i Sapar, near Kurram Valley, 13 Dec. 1878, d. 18 Dec. 1878, HAAL:79, p. 658, F113; photo Shadbolt, pl. XIII
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [w] wounded [d] died. 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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