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
Canning
First Names
Edwin
Rank
Private
Soldier No
398
Regiment / Department
56th Brigade 2nd Battalion 66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Original Text from book
Canning, Private Edwin (398) 56th Bde. 2nd Battn. 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 [= Cannings]
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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