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
Roberts
First Names
Frederick
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1672
Regiment / Department
27th Bde 1st Battn 17th (The Leicestershire) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5
Died / Killed / KIA
31 May 1879
Original Text from book
Roberts, Private Frederick (1672) 27th Bde. 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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