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
Cairney
First Names
John
Rank
Private
Soldier No
372
Regiment / Department
58th Brigade 1st Battalion 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Original Text from book
Cairney, Private John (372) 58th Bde. 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13
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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