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
Private
Rank
John Smith
Soldier no
614
Orig Text from book
*Wood, Private John Smith (614) 56th Bde. 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regt., w. Kabul 20 Dec. 1879, d. Kabul of wounds 27 Dec. 1879, buried Kabul/Sherpur
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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