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
Shears
First Names
James
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
4269
Regiment / Department
E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Jul 1880 ?
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
Flinders Diary of the March
Original Text from book
Shears, Gunner James (4269) E/B R.H.A., MR3 (deceased) Flinders, Diary of the March, (27 July 1881) "Gunner James Shears died...from dysentery buried on the afternoon 28th."
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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