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
Roe
First Names
Samuel Black
Rank
Surg Maj and Bde Surg
Regiment / Department
MB 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Source abbrevs
SH249 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / Burke
Original Text from book
Roe, Surg. Maj. and Bde. Surg. Samuel Black, M.B., 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., MR6, Army Medical Department (Bengal) SH249, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, in Medical Charge of Regt.; photo NAM (neg. 6191) Burke 212
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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