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
Beer
First Names
William
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1126
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 11th (North Devonshire) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
28 dec 1880
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Corrie
Original Text from book
Beer, Private William (1126) 2nd Battn. 11th (North Devonshire) Regt., MR4, d. 28 Dec. 1880, Corrie 15, d. Kandahar
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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