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
Newman
First Names
George Taylor
Rank
Lance Corpl
Soldier No
377
Regiment / Department
D Co. 40th Bde. 2nd Battn. (South Hampshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR14
Original Text from book
Newman, Lance Corpl. George Taylor (377) D Co. 40th Bde. 2nd Battn. (South Hampshire) Regt., MR6; Sergt., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR14, Commissariat Department, Victualing Sergt. 9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers
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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