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
Burrington
First Names
John
Rank
Driver
Soldier No
3663
Regiment / Department
A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
23 Jul 1879
Original Text from book
Burrington, Driver John (3663) A/B R.H.A., MR3, d. Kandahar 23 July 1879
Transcriber remarks
[d] died. 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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