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
Yeilding
First Names
William Richard
Rank
Lieut
Regiment / Department
5th Goorkha Regt (The Hazara Goorkha Battn)
Medal Rolls
MR14
Source abbrevs
HAAL81 / HAAL82 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / SH298
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM / Burke
Original Text from book
Yeilding, Lieut. William Richard, B.S.C., 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battn.) HAAL:81, HAAL:82 [Index: for p. 604, read p. 428-29]; 1st Regt. Sikh Infantry, P.F.F., 5th Goorkha Regt. (The Hazara Goorkha Battn.) SH298; 54th (West Norfolk) Regt., HAAL:79, HAAL:80; 5th Goorkha Regt., (The Hazara Goorkha Battn., Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Aug.-Sept. 1880, MR14; photo NAM (neg. 6202) Burke 196
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [PFF] Punjab Frontier or Field Force
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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