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
Dixon
First Names
TA
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1203
Regiment / Department
G Co 2nd Battn 15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
decesaed
Original Text from book
Dixon, Private T.A. (1203) G Co. 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regt., MR5 (deceased, date and place unrec.)
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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