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
Yaldwyn/Yaldwin
First Names
Gilbert Moorcroft
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR8
Died / Killed / KIA
12 Jun 1879
Source abbrevs
SB255 / HAAL79 / HAAL80
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
Yaldwyn/Yaldwin, Lieut. Gilbert Moorcroft, 2nd Battn. 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regt., Sub Asst. Commisssary Gen., 2nd Battn. 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regt., d. Peshawar June 1879, MR8 (2 refs., 1= Capt.) SB255, d. Peshawar of cholera 12 June 1879, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, p. 658 [= Yaldwin]; photo Shadbolt, pl. XIX
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. Also listed in Annex 2, MORTALITY. Trousdale The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881.
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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