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
Watson
First Names
Alexander
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1923
Regiment / Department
92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
1 Mar 1881
Original Text from book
Watson, Private Alexander (1923) 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., MR6; Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Aug.-Sept. 1880, MR13, d. of wounds 1 March 1881 [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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