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
Black
First Names
James
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
5738
Regiment / Department
6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR13
Original Text from book
Black, Gunner James (5738) 6/8 R.A., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 [not in MR2, apparently joined later]
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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