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
Holder
First Names
Private
Rank
Frederick
Soldier No
712
Regiment / Department
56th Bde 2nd Battn 66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Jul 1880
Original Text from book
Holder, Private Frederick (712) 56th Bde. 2nd Battn. 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6, KIA [Maiwand] 27 July 1880; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, �forfeit by desertion�
Transcriber remarks
[KIA] Killed in Action. 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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