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
Shaw
First Names
Austin
Rank
Private
Soldier No
571
Regiment / Department
7th Bde 65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
Shaw, Private Austin (571) 7th Bde. 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regt., MR5 [2 refs.; lacks Chr. name and variant regt. no. not given] MR7 (2 refs.) Lance Corpl. Austin Shaw (511) crossed frontier 22 [Aug. 1880j, employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar [month and year prob.; lost]
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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