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
Wilson
First Names
John
Rank
Gunner
Soldier No
4333
Regiment / Department
C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Original Text from book
Wilson, Gunner John (4333) C/4 R.A., MR3; to Kabul with Gatling Guns Sept. 1879; trans. to G/3 R.A. [poss. ident. to one of two following]
Transcriber remarks
[G/3 RA] G Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery / [poss ident to one of two following] Wilson Gunner John (5672) or Wilson Gunner John (8380)
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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