| AA (ack -ack) |
Anti- Aircraft |
| ACC |
Ambulance Car Company, Army Catering
Corps |
| ACL |
Ambulance Chirurgical Légère |
| ADMS |
Assistant Director of Medical
Services |
| ADS |
Advanced Dressing Station |
| ADS&T |
Assistant Director of Supply
and Transport |
| AG |
Adjutant General |
| alakeefic |
(Arabic) indifferent |
| ALFSEA |
Allied Land Forces, South East
Asia |
| AMG |
Allied Military Government |
| APO |
Army Post Office |
| assis |
(French) sitting case, a patient
who can sit up |
| Aussies |
Australians |
| AWOL |
Absent without leave |
| |
|
| backsheesh |
(Arabic) tip, but more usually
something for nothing |
| bas |
the end, enough, no more |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting Company |
| Bde |
Brigade |
| BIMP |
Bataillon d'Infanterie de Marine
et du Pacifique |
| BLA |
British Liberation Armies |
| blessé (French) |
wounded |
| BLU |
British Liaison Unit |
| Bn |
Battalion |
| BOR |
British Other Rank |
| brancardier |
(French) stretcher- bearer |
| |
|
| CAP |
Civilian Air Patrol |
| CCP |
Casualty Clearing Post |
| CCS |
Casualty Clearing Station |
| Centre de Triage et Traitement |
French equivalent of CCS |
| chaung |
(Urdu) dry stream bed |
| C in C |
Commander in Chief |
| clobber |
beat up |
| CMF |
Central Mediterranean Forces |
| CO |
Commanding Officer |
| cobber |
pal |
| couché |
(French) stretcher case, a patient
who needs to be carried |
| Coy |
Company |
| CP |
Car Post, Check Post |
| CQMS |
Company Quartermaster Sergeant |
| CRS |
Casualty Resting Station |
| CSM |
Company Sergeant Major |
| CSP |
Convoy Stopping Point |
| cwt |
hundredweight |
| |
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| DADMS |
Deputy Assistant Director of
Medical Services |
| DADPM |
Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal |
| DADS&T |
Deputy Assistant Director of
Supply and Transport |
| DDMS |
Deputy Director of Medical Services |
| DDS&T |
Deputy Director of Supply and
Transport |
| dixies |
mess tins |
| DR |
Despatch Rider |
| dukw |
2 1/2 ton amphibious truck |
| |
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| EFI |
Expeditionary Forces Institute |
| en repos |
(French) at rest; on leave |
| ENSA |
Entertainment National Services
Association |
| E'I'O |
European Theatre of Operations |
| Eyeties (also Eyeteyes, Ities, etc.) |
Italians |
| |
|
| FA |
Field Ambulance |
| FAP |
First Aid Post |
| FATC |
Field Ambulance Training Course |
| FAU |
Friends Ambulance Unit |
| FDLs |
Forward Defense Lines |
| FDS |
Field Dressing Station |
| FFC |
Forces Françaises Combattantes |
| FFI |
Forces Françaises Intérieures
(the resistance) |
| FFL |
Forces Françaises Libres |
| FFR |
Frontier Force Rifles |
| FCCM |
Field General Court Martial |
| Fifi |
member of the FFI |
| flap |
a disturbance causing confusion;
the retreat from Tobruk to El Alamein was The Flap, but it was
possible to get in a flap over the oss of a wastebasket |
| |
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| GBD |
Groupe Brancardier Divisionnaire |
| GH |
General Hospital |
| ghari |
horse- drawn carriage |
| GHQ |
General Headquarters |
| GO |
General Order |
| GQG |
Grand Quartier General (GHQ) |
| GPT |
General Purpose Transport |
| griff |
news |
| GSD |
Groupe Sanitaire Divisionnaire |
| |
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| HE |
High Explosive, Horizontal Equivalent |
| HOE |
Hôpital d'Observation et
d'Evacuation |
| HQ |
Headquarters |
| hrs. |
hours |
| |
|
| IAMC |
Indian Army Medical Corps |
| IBGH |
Indian- British General Hospital |
| i/c |
in charge of |
| IGH |
Indian General Hospital |
| INA |
Indian National Army |
| IOR |
Indian Other Rank |
| ISS |
Indian Staging Section |
| |
|
| JAG |
Judge Advocate General |
| Jerry |
German |
| JIFC |
Japanese- Indian Fifth Column |
| |
|
| KARs |
King's African Rifles |
| KDGs |
King's Dragoon Guards |
| Kiwi |
New Zealander |
| KOYLI |
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
| KRRs |
King's Royal Rifles |
| |
|
| LAD |
Light Aid Detachment |
| LCT |
Landing Craft, Tank |
| leaguer |
encampment, to camp |
| LFA |
Light Field Ambulance |
| LOC (L of C) |
Line (lines) of Communication |
| LST |
Landing Ship, Tank |
| |
|
| MAC |
Motor Ambulance Convoy, Motor
Ambulance Company |
| MAS |
Motor Ambulance Section |
| NIDS |
Main Dressing Station |
| MEF |
Middle East Forces |
| MFTU |
Malaria Forward Treatment Unit |
| MI Room |
Medical Inspection Room |
| MO |
Medical Officer |
| MP |
Military Police |
| MS |
Master Sergeant, Mile Stone |
| MSM |
Mechanical Sergeant Major |
| MT |
Mechanical Transport, Motor Transport |
| MTO |
Motor Transport Officer |
| |
|
| NAAFI |
Navy, Army, Air Force Institute |
| NCO |
Non- Commissioned Officer |
| |
|
| OC |
Officer Commanding |
| O i/c |
Officer In Charge |
| OD |
Officer of the Day |
| OP |
Observation Post |
| OR |
Other Rank |
| |
|
| PAIC |
Persia and Iraq Command |
| PBI |
Poor British Infantry |
| PDS |
Poste de Secours (French equivalent
of MDS; Poste de Secours Avancé being the equivalent of
an ADS, and the Poste de Secours du Regiment that of an RAP) |
| PM |
Provost Marshal |
| POW |
Prisoner of War |
| PP |
Petrol Point |
| PR |
Public Relations |
| PX |
Post Exchange |
| |
|
| QMS |
Quartermaster Sergeant |
| |
|
| RA |
Royal Regiment of Artillery |
| RAF |
Royal Air Force |
| RAMC |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
| RAOC |
Royal Army Ordnance Corps |
| RASC |
Royal Army Service Corps |
| RB |
Rifle Brigade |
| RE |
Royal Engineers (Corps of) |
| recce (reccy) |
reconnaissance, reconnoitre |
| REME |
Royal (Corps of) Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
| RHA |
Royal Horse Artillery |
| RHU |
Reserve Holding Unit |
| RIAMC |
Royal Indian Army Medical Corps |
| RMO |
Regimental Medical Officer |
| RO |
Routine Order |
| RSM |
Regimental Sergeant Major |
| RSP |
Road Staging Post |
| |
|
| scrounge |
the appropriation of anything
portable not obviously being used by someone else |
| SEAC |
South East Asia Command |
| shufti |
(Arabic) to look, investigate |
| sitrep |
Situation report |
| S&T |
Supply and Transport |
| stonking |
concentration of artillery
fire on a single point |
| |
|
| TCP |
Traffic Control Point |
| TO |
Transport Officer |
| Tommies |
English soldiers |
| |
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| u.s. |
unserviceable |
| |
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| wadi |
watercourse |
| WD |
War Department, Western Desert |
| WE |
War Esiablishment |
| windy |
more than usually uneasy
about personal safety |
| WO |
War Office |
| Wog |
Worthy (Wily) Oriental gentlemen;
used of the civilian natives of any place but the speaker's home |
George Rock