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
Oates
First Names
A
Rank
Private
Regiment / Department
4th Batallion The Prince Consorts Own Rifle Brigade
Medal Rolls
MR6 / MR7?
Original Text from book
Oates, Private A. (____) 4th Battn. The Prince Consorts Own Rifle Brigade, MR6 [regt. no. unrec.] [n. ref. to MR Misc. Vol. (MR7) p. 211, where does not appear] [poss. ident. to preceding]
Transcriber remarks
[poss ident to preceding] Oaten Private Alfred (899)
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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