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
Welsh
First names
Private
Rank
John
Soldier no
473
Orig Text from book
*Welsh, Private John (473) 32nd Bde. 1st Battn. 12 (East Suffolk) Regt., KIA Kam Dakka 22 April 1879
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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