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
Slade
First Names
John Ramsay
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
D Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR2 / MR3 / MR7
Source abbrevs
SH144 / SH177 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
The Graphic / MS Letters NAM
Original Text from book
Slade, Capt. John Ramsay, D/A R.H.A.; E/B R.H.A., MR2, MR3, MR7 (2 refs.) SH144, SH177, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; notice The Graphic, 28 Jan. 1882, p. 78; pub. account in letter of E/B R.H.A. at Maiwand, ed. by Maj. G. Tylden, Journal of the Society for Amry Historical Research, Vol. 42, No. 172 (1964) pp. 182 186; MS letters NAM acc. no. 6807/23
Transcriber remarks
[E/B RHA] E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
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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