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
Hickey
First Names
Private
Rank
William
Soldier No
1053
Regiment / Department
63rd (West Suffolk) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
1881
Original Text from book
Hickey, Private William (1053) 63rd (West Suffolk) Regt., MR5, d. Kandahar 1881 [day and month unrec.]
Transcriber remarks
[d] died / death. 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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