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
Saving
First Names
Amos
Rank
Colour Sergt
Soldier No
2453
Regiment / Department
D Company 2nd Battn 11th (North Devonshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
24 Jan 1881
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
photo NAM
Original Text from book
Saving, Colour Sergt. Amos (2453) D Co. 2nd Battn. 11th (North Devonshire) Regt., MR4, d. [Kandahar] 24 Jan. 1881; name appears on funerary monument at Kandahar in photo NAM (neg. no. 12979) B. Simpson 24, early 1881; MS letters in possession of family descendents (Ed.)
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. 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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