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
Broad
First Names
Thomas
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
5778
Regiment / Department
6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Original Text from book
Broad, Gunner Thomas (5778) 6/8 R.A., MR3; trans. to 12/9 R.A. at Kabul 1 Aug. 1880
Transcriber remarks
[12/9 RA] 12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
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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