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
Johnson
First Names
W
Rank
Shoeing Smith
Soldier No
820
Regiment / Department
9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers A Troop
Medal Rolls
MR1 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
1880
Original Text from book
Johnson, Shoeing Smith W. (820) 9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers: A Troop, MR1, d. Kandahar 1880; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 (deceased) [day and month unrec.]
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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