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
Wetmore
First Names
John P
Rank
Hospital Sergt
Soldier No
1029
Regiment / Department
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
Medal Rolls
MR1
Died / Killed / KIA
9 Jun 1880
Original Text from book
Wetmore, Hospital Sergt. John P. (1029) 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) MR1, d. Safed Sang 9 June 1880
Transcriber remarks
[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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