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
Telfer
First Names
David
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1284
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 8th (The Kings) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
8 Apr 1879
Original Text from book
Telfer, Private David (1284) 2nd Battn. 8th (The Kings) Regt., MR4, d. 8 April 1879 [date and place unrec.]
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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