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
Wiltshire
First Names
Henry
Rank
Private
Regiment / Department
1st Battn. 12th (East Suffolk) Regt
Medal Rolls
MR4
Original Text from book
Wiltshire, Private Henry (____) 1st Battn. 12th (East Suffolk) Regt., MR4 [regt. no. unrec.] [difficult to decipher; believe correct]
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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