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
Curling
First Names
Edwin
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1696
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR / MR13
Sick / Wounded
1 Sep 1880
Died / Killed / KIA
2 [1 ?] Sep 1880
Original Text from book
Curling, Private Edwin (1696) 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt., MR6, w. 1 Sept. 1880; d. Hajar Afdal 2 Sept. 1880 [unclear in MR whether this "d." ref. to Curling or to Cunningham, Private John (245); fits Curling as a 1 Sept. w., but check Cunningham]; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13
Transcriber remarks
[w] wounded. [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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