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
Cook
First names
Bt Maj
Rank
John
Orig Text from book
*Cook, Bt. Maj. John, B.S.C., 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battn.) P.F.F., d. Kabul of gunshot wounds 19 Dec. 1879, buried Kabul/Sherpur; memorial stone extant in Kabul/Sherpur cemetery Aug. 1993 [Willasey-Wilsey]
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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