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
Garwood
First Names
William
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
4244
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
10 Apr 1881
Original Text from book
Garwood, Gunner William (4244) E/B R.H.A., MR3 (decreased), Flinders, Diary of the March, (10 April 1881) "Gunner William Garwood, died in hospital [Kandahar]..... after a long illness, ending in insanity, was buried the following morning."
Transcriber remarks
Also listed in Annex 2, MORTALITY. Trousdale The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881.
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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