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
Istead
First Names
Picknell
Rank
Driver
Soldier No
4309
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Jul 1880
Source abbrevs
F67
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March
Original Text from book
Istead, Driver Picknell (4309) E/B R.H.A., MR3, KIA [Maiwand] 27 July 1880, F67, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 14 (27 July 1880) "Drivers Istead, Webster, Gray, (killed)" [see V.C. to Mullane, Sergt. Patrick, R.H.A.]
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] killed in action. 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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