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
Kidney
First Names
Patrick
Rank
Private
Soldier No
334
Regiment / Department
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
16 Aug 1880
Source abbrevs
F81
Original Text from book
Kidney, Private Patrick (334) 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regt., MR5, F81, KIA Deh Khwaja 16 Aug. 1880 [F= regt. no. (384)]
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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