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
Stone
First Names
Gunner
Rank
Job Forsey
Soldier No
5084
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
21 Jul 1880
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March
Original Text from book
Stone, Gunner Job Forsey (5084) E/B R.H.A., MR3, d. Kandahar 21 July 1880, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 9 (21 July 1880) "Gunner Stone died in Hospital at Kandahar from the effects of poisoning, buried same day, this being the second case of self poisoning in the Battery." (suicide)
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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