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
Wilson
First Names
James
Rank
Surg Maj
Regiment / Department
I Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR7
Source abbrevs
SH250 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Wilson, Surg.-Maj. James, M.B., I/A R.H.A., Army Medical Department (Bengal) MR7 (2 refs.) "crossed the frontier into Afghanistan Nov. 1879 and returned to India May 1880, SH250, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82
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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