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
Lynch
First Names
William
Rank
Sergt
Soldier No
1948
Regiment / Department
6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR13
Original Text from book
Lynch, Sergt. William (1948) 6/8 R.A., MR3; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 [checked with following and unless regt. nos. incorrect in MR, entries are correct as here given (Ed.)]
Transcriber remarks
[checked with following regt nos] Lynch Gunner William [1498]
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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