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
Rainey
First Names
John
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1270
Regiment / Department
66th (Berkshire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR6
Sick / Wounded
1 Sep 1880
Original Text from book
Rainey, Private John (1270) 66th (Berkshire) Regt., MR6, sick at Quetta 1 Sept. 1880
Transcriber remarks
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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