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
Simon
First Names
James Robert
Rank
2nd Class Apothecary
Regiment / Department
Sub Medical Department (Madras)
Medal Rolls
MR12
Original Text from book
Simon, 2nd Class Apothecary James Robert, Sub Medical Department (Madras) in Charge of 2nd Section, General Field Hospital (Pesh Bolak) Khyber Line Force, 29 July 18 Aug. 1880, MR12 (multiple refs.)
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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