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
Travers
First Names
Joseph Oates
Rank
Maj
Regiment / Department
17th (The Leicestershire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR7 / MR8
Source abbrevs
SH146 / SH208 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Travers, Maj. Joseph Oates, 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., MR7 (2 refs.) A.D.C., Staff of the 1st Infantry Bde., 1st Div. P.F.F., MR8 [struck out] SH146, SH208 [= Bt. Lt.-Col.] HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82
Transcriber remarks
[ADC] Aide de Camp / [PFF] Punjab Frontier or Field 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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