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
Wood
First Names
Robert
Rank
Battery Sergt Maj
Regiment / Department
G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
Medal Rolls
MR3
Died / Killed / KIA
27 Oct 1879
Source abbrevs
IMI II
Original Text from book
Wood, Battery Sergt.-Maj. Robert (____) G/4 R.A., MR3, IMI, II,1, p. 102/182, d. Kandahar 27 Oct. 1879 [regt. no. unrec.]
Transcriber remarks
[d] died/death. 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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