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
Cunninmgham
First Names
Edward
Rank
Drummer
Soldier No
1207
Regiment / Department
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
20 Mar 1880
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
MS Diary NAM acc
Original Text from book
Cunninmgham, Drummer Edward (1207) 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regt., MR5 [murdered 20 March 1880 outside Kandahar; ref. Private George Allen Keating (q.v.) MS Diary, NAM acc. no. 7609-55-1 & 2 (Ed.)] [buried Kandahar 21 March 1880]
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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