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
Orr
First Names
William
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
4626
Regiment / Department
C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Original Text from book
Orr, Gunner William (4626) C/4 R.A., MR3; trans. to H/1 R.A. 1 April 1880, as Provisional actg. Bombardier (also in G/4 R.A.)
Transcriber remarks
[H/1 RA] H Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery / [G/4 RA] G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
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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