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
Greensmith
First Names
F
Rank
Lance Corpl
Soldier No
255
Regiment / Department
A Co 2nd Battn 15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
30 Sep 1880
Original Text from book
Greensmith, Lance Corpl. F. (255) A Co. 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regt., MR5 (d. Kandahar 30 Sept. 1880) [not in F]
Transcriber remarks
[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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