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
Williams
First Names
Edward V
Rank
Private
Soldier No
1297
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Sick / Wounded
sick
Died / Killed / KIA
20 Oct 1880
Original Text from book
Williams, Private Edward V. (1297) 2nd Battn. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regt., MR4, sick in Kandahar, d. Quetta 20 Oct. 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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