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
Beddoes
First Names
William Thomas
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
5075
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Trousdale Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century
Original Text from book
Beddoes, Gunner William Thomas (5075) E/B R.H.A., MR3 [accidentally shot and killed (1634) Driver Thomas Hornby and (4275) Gunner James Tew, both E/B R.H.A., in Kandahar bazaar; court-martialed and 1 June 1880 sentenced to 168 days prison, of which 84 later remitted; see Trousdale, Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century, Chapt. 5 (forthcoming); such an incident would now be termed killed by �friendly fire�) (Ed.)]
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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