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
James
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1478
Regiment / Department
34th (The Cumberland) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Smith, Private James (1478) 34th (The Cumberland) Regt., MR5 [Chr. name and regt. no. unrec.] MR7 (2 refs.) crossed frontier 22 [Aug. 1880], employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar [month and year prob.; lost]
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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