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
Cruickshank
First names
Capt
Rank
George F[arquharson] Macdonald
Orig Text from book
*Cruickshank, Capt. George F[arquharson] Macdonald, R.E. (Bombay Sappers and Miners) KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880; Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 17 (16 Aug. 1880) "... Brigadier General Brooke, he was killed in trying to rescue another brother officer, Captain Cruickshank, R.E."
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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