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
Simmons
First Names
Walter
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1623
Regiment / Department
1st Battn 72nd (Duke of Albanys Own Highlanders) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR13
Original Text from book
Simmons, Private Walter (1623) 1st Battn. 72nd (Duke of Albanyss Own Highlanders) Regt., Kabul Kandahar Field Force, Aug. Sept. 1880, MR13 [not in MR6, apparently joined later]
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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