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
Baker
First Names
Walter J
Rank
actg Bombardier
Soldier No
1300
Regiment / Department
11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
28 Jan 1881
Original Text from book
Baker, actg. Bombardier Walter J. (1300) 11/9 R.A., MR3, d. Jutogh 21 Jan. 1880 [1881]; Bombardier, Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, d. Jutogh 28 Jan. 1881
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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