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
Cunningham
First Names
Owen
Rank
Drum Maj
Soldier No
1357
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 8th (The Kings) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Died / Killed / KIA
2 Dec 1878
Source abbrevs
F76
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
The Graphic
Original Text from book
Cunningham, Drum Major Owen (1357) 2nd Battn. 8th (The Kings) Regt., MR4, KIA [Peiwar Kotal] 2 Dec. 1878, F76; engraving of grave at Peiwar Kotal, The Graphic, 3 April 1880, p. 353
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] Killed in Action. 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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