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
Butler
First Names
William
Rank
Driver
Soldier No
5203
Regiment / Department
G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Oct 1879
Source abbrevs
IMI
Original Text from book
Butler, Driver William (5203) G/4 R.A., MR3, d. Quetta 27 Oct. 1879 [poss. ident. to Butler, (____) D.W., (R.A.) q.v.]; IMI indicates buried Kandahar, but poss. name appeared on a regt. monument at Kandahar]
Transcriber remarks
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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