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
Parker
First names
Private
Rank
William
Soldier no
850
Orig Text from book
Parker, Private William (850) 63rd (West Suffolk) Regt., d. Kandahar 7 May 1881 [date (month) may be in error since British evacuated Kandahar before end of April 1881; poss. a hospital remained for a while after Abdur Rahman�s troops occupied the city]
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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