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
Parker
First Names
William
Rank
Private
Soldier No
850
Regiment / Department
63rd (West Suffolk) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
7 May 1881
Original Text from book
Parker, Private William (850) 63rd (West Suffolk) Regt.. MR5, d. Kandahar 7 May 1881 [date may be in error since British evacuated Kandahar before end of April 1881 (Ed.)]
Transcriber remarks
[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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