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
Butcher
First Names
William
Rank
2nd Class Asst Apothecary
Regiment / Department
A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR8 [2 refs]
Original Text from book
Butcher, 2nd Class Asst. Apothecary William Henry, Sub Medical Department (Bengal) with A/B R.H.A. and 5th Regt. Punjab Cavalry, P.F.F., MR8 (2 refs.)
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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