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
Piper
First Names
Thomas
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1881
Regiment / Department
1st Battalion 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
died
Original Text from book
Piper, Private Thomas (1881) 1st Battn. 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt., MR5
Transcriber remarks
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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