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
Bourke
First Names
Patrick
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
3263
Regiment / Department
12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Original Text from book
Bourke, Gunner Patrick (3263) 12/9 R.A., MR3; trans. to (6563) 6/8 R.A., MR3, d. Kandahar 16 Nov. 1880 [ident. to preceding]
Transcriber remarks
[6/8 RA] 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery / [ident to preceding] Bourke Gunner Patrick (6563)
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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