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
Douglas
First Names
Thomas
Rank
Private
Soldier No
2389
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 22nd (The Cheshire) Regt )
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Douglas, Private Thomas (2389) 2nd Battn. 22nd (The Cheshire) Regt., MR5, MR7 (2 refs.) crossed frontier 3 Sept. 1880, employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar
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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