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
Purdy
First names
Private
Rank
Frederick
Soldier no
845
Orig Text from book
Purdy, Private Frederick (845) 8th Bde. 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The Kings Own Light Infantry) Regt., d. 5 Sept. 1880 place unrec]
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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