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
Cole
First Names
Abraham
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1595
Regiment / Department
9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers A Troop
Medal Rolls
MR1
Died / Killed / KIA
9 Jan 1880
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
IOL&R N/1/173
Original Text from book
Cole, Private Abraham (1595) 9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers: A Troop, MR1; aged 24, d. of gunshot wounds and amputation at Kabul 9 Jan. 1880; buried Kabul/Sherpur 10 Jan. 1880, J.W. Adams, Chaplain; IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kabul/Sherpur); name [Coyle] appears on regt. memorial stone (extant Aug. 1993 [Willasey-Wilsey]) cemetery Kabul/Sherpur [see also Coyle, Private A.]
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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