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
Duly
First Names
C E
Rank
Trumpeter
Soldier No
1534
Regiment / Department
9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers A Troop
Medal Rolls
MR1 / MR13 / MR15
Original Text from book
Duly, Trumpeter C.E. (1534) 9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers: A Troop, MR1; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13; MR15 gives surname as Deely under heading "Discrepancies"; pub. Duly, C.E., The Life of Trumpeter C.E. Duly, late of the 9th Queens Royal Lancers, n.p., n.d. [ca. 1890s, 48 pp.]
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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