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
Day
First Names
William
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
1311
Regiment / Department
11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR13
Source abbrevs
F69
Original Text from book
Day, Gunner William (1311) 11/9 R.A., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 [= Daye] F69 [not in MR3, 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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