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
Osborne
First Names
Charles
Rank
Driver
Soldier No
6571
Regiment / Department
E Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Original Text from book
Osborne, Driver Charles (6571) E/3 R.A., MR3; trans. to C/4 R.A. [poss. ident. to following]
Transcriber remarks
[C/4 RA] C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery / [poss ident to following] Osborne Shoeing Smith Charles (6858)
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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