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
Vaughan
First Names
John
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1301
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
16 Nov 1880
Original Text from book
Vaughan, Private John (1301) 2nd Battn. 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6, d. 16 Nov. 1880; Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Aug.-Sept. 1880, MR13, “forfeit by desertion” [error exists in one of the refs.; he is credited with having been present at the Battle of Kandahar (1 Sept.), in which he rec’d the wounds from which he presumably subsequently died; there is no intervening interval during which he could have deserted ]
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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