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
Johns
First Names
William
Rank
Lance Corpl
Soldier No
244
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Johns, Lance Corpl. William (244) 2nd Battn. 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regt., MR5 [ident. to preceding; n. refers to MR Misc. Vol. (MR7) p. 215; this MR5 ref. gives neither Chr. name nor regt. no.] MR7 (2 refs.) crossed frontier 13 Aug. 1880, employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar
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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