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
Dyer
First Names
Robert William
Rank
Sergt
Soldier No
332
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR9
Original Text from book
Dyer, Sergt. Robert William (332) 2nd Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., R.A. [attached] MR3; 2nd Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., Bombay Ordnance Department, MR9
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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