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
Bennett
First Names
William
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1207
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Bennett, Private William (1207) 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regt., MR5; crossed frontier 13 Aug. 1880, employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar, MR7
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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