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
Biddulph
First Names
Cuthbert E
Rank
Mr
Regiment / Department
Commissariat Department Quetta Div
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR9 / MR10
Original Text from book
Biddulph, Mr. Cuthbert E., C.S., Sub Asst. Commissary Gen., MR9 [struck out]; Commissariat Department, Quetta Div. (much correspondence questioning entitlement to medal; decided favorably; served as Asst. to Executive Commissariat Officer, Sibi; "crossed frontier on 15th August 1880 and doing duty in the Bolan Pass") MR10
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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