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
Hammond
First Names
Frederick
Rank
Private
Soldier No
2224
Regiment / Department
2nd Battalion 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Hammond, Private Frederick (2224) 2nd Battn. 22nd (The Cheshire) Regt., MR5 [Chr. name and regt. no. omitted] crossed frontier 3 Sept. 1880 employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar, MR7 (2 refs.)
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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