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
Showers
First Names
Howe Frederick
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
1st Regt Punjab Infantry PFF
Medal Rolls
MR9
Died / Killed / KIA
25 Mar 1880
Source abbrevs
SH311/ SB198/ HAAL79/ HAAL80/ HAAL81/ F131
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March / photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Showers, Capt. Howe Frederick, B.S.C., 1st Regt. Punjab Infantry, P.F.F., MR9, d. 25 March 1880, SH311, SB198, murdered by Kakar Pashtuns between Chapari and Quetta 14 [25?] March 1880, HAAL:79 [Index: for p. 420, read p. 421] HAAL:80 [Index: for p. 420, read p. 421] HAAL:81, p. 657, F131, k. by marauders on road between Chappar and Quetta 25 March 1880, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 4 (27 March 1880) "Captain Showers of the Punjab Cavalry, brought into camp massacred by the Hill tribes."; photo Shadbolt, pl. XV
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier Force / [d] died, [k] killed. 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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