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
Beeke
First Names
John
Rank
Capt
Regiment / Department
21st Bombay Native Infantry (Marine Battalion)
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Oct 1879
Source abbrevs
SB16 / HAAL80
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo Shadbolt
Original Text from book
29th (Punjab) Regt Bengal NI
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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