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
Smith
First Names
A
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1403
Regiment / Department
9th (The Queens Royal Lancers E Troop
Medal Rolls
MR1
Died / Killed / KIA
5 Apr 1879
Original Text from book
Smith, Private A. (1403) 9th (The Queens Royal Lancers: E Troop, MR1, d[?] Basawal 5 April 1879. [poss. ident. t.o Smith, Albert (____) KIA Kabul; see , s.v. Alfred Smith, below, as in F, but not in MR; name inscribed as Private Albert Smith on 9th Lancers memorial monument in Kabul/Sherpur cemetery]
Transcriber remarks
[d] died, [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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