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
Whylock
First Names
Watkins Sandom
Rank
Surg Maj
Regiment / Department
70th (Surrey) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 /MR7
Source abbrevs
SH250 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Ellis
Original Text from book
Whylock, Surg.-Maj. Watkins Sandom, M.D., 70th (Surrey) Regt., MR6, Army Medical Department (Bengal) MR7 (2 refs.) served with 70th (Surrey) Regt., in Southern Afghanistan, in medical charge of the General Field Hospital at Kandahar, in medical charge Section A, Field Hospital, on Lt.-Gen. D. Stewarts march to Kabul [April 1880] and present at Battle of Ahmed Khel, Principal Medical Officer 3rd Div. Northern Afghanistan Field Force, SH250, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82, retired as Hon. Bde. Surg.; photographer at Kandahar, ref. Le Messurier, Kandahar in 1879, p. 252, 1 Sept. 1879: "Dr. Whylock took two good photographic views of the house and garden."; photo Ellis no. 67
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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