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
Boast
First Names
James
Rank
actg Bombardier
Soldier No
5885
Regiment / Department
C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3 / MR13
Original Text from book
Boast, actg. Bombardier James (5885) C/2 R.A., MR3; Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Aug.-Sept. 1880, MR13 [= Beast, actg. Bombardier James, q.v.]
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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