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
Slemming
First Names
James
Rank
Collar Maker
Soldier No
5771
Regiment / Department
6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
22 Nov 1880
Original Text from book
Slemming, Collar Maker James (5771) 6/8 R.A., MR3, d. Meen Meer 22 Nov. 1880; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, d. Meen Meer 22 Nov. 1880
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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