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
Goodwin
First Names
Edwin
Rank
Trooper
Regiment / Department
8th (The Kings Royal Irish) Hussars
Died / Killed / KIA
murdered
Original Text from book
Goodwin, Trooper Edwin (____) 8th (The Kings Royal Irish) Hussars [murdered, see ref. with Trooper Wilfred Kenny of same regt. [not in MR1; regt. no. unknown] [neither the name of the murderer, nor the name of the murdered, were recorded in MR1]
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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