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
Brockbank
First Names
Joseph
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1534
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Brockbank, Private Joseph (1534) 2nd Battn. 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regt., MR5; crossed frontier 15 July 1880, with Military Signallers in Southern Afghanistan, MR7
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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