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
Blair
First Names
William
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1339
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR6 / MR13
Original Text from book
Blair, Private William (1339) 2nd Battn. 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13
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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