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
Thompson
First Names
William Oliver
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
2nd (or Hill) Regt Sikh Infantry PFF
Medal Rolls
MR9
Source abbrevs
SH308 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Thompson, Capt. William Oliver, B.S.C., 2nd (or Hill) Regt. Sikh Infantry, P.F.F., MR9, SH308, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82 [Index: for p. 421, read p. 420]
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier Force
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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