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
Nobbs
First Names
Frederick
Rank
Drummer
Soldier No
1965
Regiment / Department
92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR13
Died / Killed / KIA
1 Sep 1880
Original Text from book
Nobbs, Drummer Frederick (1965) 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., MR6; Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13, KIA [date and place unrec.]
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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