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
Hutchins
First Names
Ethelred Elder
Rank
Sergt
Soldier No
23 49
Regiment / Department
Commissariat Department
Medal Rolls
MR8
Original Text from book
Hutchins, Sergt. Ethelred Elder (23 49) Unattached List, Commissariat Department, Kurram Valley as Chief Commissariat Officer under Maj. Robert Burlton, Oct. 1879, MR8 (2 refs.) [regt. no. sic]
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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