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
Potter
First names
Trumpet Maj
Rank
Harry
Soldier no
1460
Orig Text from book
*Potter, Trumpet Maj. Harry (1460) 9th (The Queens Royal) Lancers, KIA Arghandi (near Kabul) 11 Dec. 1879, aged 21, body not recovered, "unburied," name inscribed on regt. memorial stone (extant Aug. 1993 [Willasey-Wilsey]) cemetery 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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