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
Bond
First Names
John
Rank
Driver
Soldier No
3353
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
6 Jul 1880
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March
Original Text from book
Bond, Driver John (3353) E/B R.H.A., MR3, "committed suicide" 6 July 1880, Flinders, Diary of the March, p. 6 (6 July 1880) "...Driver Bond was found, with his horse-pistol in his hand, quite dead, with his brains hanging down over his face, the cause of the suicide is unknown."
Transcriber remarks
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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