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
Smart
First Names
John Frederick
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
2295
Regiment / Department
12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3 / MR13
Original Text from book
Smart, Gunner John Frederick (2295) 12/9 R.H.A., MR3; trans. to (2295/9) 6/8 R.A., MR3; (5754) 6/8 R.A., Kabul-Kandahar Field Force, Aug.-Sept. 1880, MR13
Transcriber remarks
[6/8 RA] 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
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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