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
Roper
First Names
Alfred
Rank
actg Bombardier
Soldier No
5340
Regiment / Department
G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
28 May 1879
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
IOL&R N/1/173
Original Text from book
Roper, actg. Bombardier Alfred (5340) G/4 R.A., MR3, d. Kandahar 28 May 1879, IOL&R N/1/173 (buried Kandahar)
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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