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
Irvine
First Names
Charles
Rank
Private
Soldier No
985
Regiment / Department
58th (Bde) Brigade 1st (Battn) Battalion 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regiment
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Original Text from book
Irvine, Private Charles (985) 58th Bde. 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6; (2547) Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, Clerk to Deputy Surg.-Gen. [either MR7 or MR13 has transposed regt. no. with Irvine, Private John of same regt.]
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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