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
O'Brien
First Names
James Joseph
Rank
Bt Col
Regiment / Department
22nd (Punjab) Regiment Bengal NI
Medal Rolls
MR9
Died / Killed / KIA
2 Jan 1880 / 21 Jan 1880
Original Text from book
O�Brien, Bt. Col. James Joseph, B.S.C., Commandant 22nd (Punjab) Regt. Bengal N.I.; d. Safed Sang 2 Jan. 1880, MR9; d. Kabul/Safed Sang of sickness 21 Jan. 1880; SB 150 [see O�Bryen, Bt. Col. James Joseph]
Transcriber remarks
[BSC] Bengal Staff Corps / [NI] Native Infantry / [d] died. 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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