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
Yate
First Names
Arthur Campbell
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
27th Regt Bombay NI
Medal Rolls
MR9 / MR8
Source abbrevs
SH337 / HAAL81 / HAAL82 / HAAL79 / HAAL80
Original Text from book
Yate, Lieut. Arthur Campbell, Bo.S.C., 27th Regt. Bombay N.I., 1st Belooch Regt. (Light Infantry) MR9, SH337, HAAL:81, HAAL:82; 29th Regt. Bombay N.I., 2nd Belooch Regt., Political Officer, Political Department, Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan, MR8 (2 refs.); 1st West India Regt., HAAL:79, HAAL:80; [former owner of one of three known copies of Lt.-Col. and Brig.-Gen. Charles Metcalfe Mac Gregors diary of the 2nd phase, republished in unexpurgated form by W. Trousdale, War in Afghanistan]
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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