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
Purdy
First Names
Frederick
Rank
Private
Soldier No
845
Regiment / Department
8th Brigade 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) (The Kings Own Light Infantry) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
5 Sep 1880
Original Text from book
Purdy, Private Frederick (845) 8th Bde. 51st (2nd York-shire, West Riding) (The Kings Own Light Infantry) Regt., MR5, d. 5 Sept. 1880 [place unrec.]
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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