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
Smith
First Names
Young
Rank
Bombardier Wheeler
Soldier No
188
Regiment / Department
G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Bibliography / Text abbrevs
IOL&R N/1/173
Original Text from book
Smith, Bombardier Wheeler Young (1881) G/4 R.A., MR3, IOL&R N/1/173 [R.H.A.] (buried Kandahar) [d. date and place unrec.]
Transcriber remarks
[RHA] Royal Horse Artillery / [d] died. 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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