Showing posts with label acronyms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acronyms. Show all posts

Friday, March 25, 2011

British Army Acronyms, WWI, Cs continued

CHA - Commander Heavy Artillery

CHDAVC - Convalescent Horse Depot Army Veterinary Corps

C-in-C - Commander in Chief

CID - Committee of Imperial Defense

CIGS - Chief of the Imperial GEneral Staff

CLC - Chinese Labor Corps

CLLE - Charger-Loading Lee-Enfield (rifle)

CLLM - Charger-Loading Lee-Metford (rifle)

CLRO - Corps Light Railway Officer

CME - Chief Mechanical Engineer

CMG - Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George


Bibliography
Call-to-Arms: The British Army 1914-18, Charles Messenger, Cassell Military Books, 2005

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

British Army Acronyms, WWI, Cs

CB - Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, also Confinement to Barracks, also Counter Battery.

CBE - Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

CBSO - Counter-Battery Staff Officer

CC - Confinded to camp(punishment) also, Chief Censor

CCD - Commander of Coast Defenses

CCRA - Corps Commander Royal Artillery

CCS - CAsualty Clearing station

CDS - Corps dressing station

CE - Chief Engineer

CEF - Canadian Expeditionary Force

CPEC - Chief Engineer Port Construction

CF - Chaplain to the Forces

CFC - Chief Field Censor, also Canadian Forestry Corps

CGI - Corrugated Galvanized Iron

CGS - Chief of General Staff


Bibliography
Call-to-Arms: The British Army 1914-18, Charles Messenger, Cassell Military Books, 2005

Monday, March 7, 2011

WWI British Army Acronyms As continued

AD - artillery depot
ADAPS - Assistant Director Army Postal Services
ADAP & SS - Assistant of Army Printing and Stationary Services
ADC - Aide de camp
ADGR&E - Assistant Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries
ADGT - Assistant Director General of Transportation
ADL - Assistant Director of Labour
ADLR - Assistant Director of Light Railways
ADMS - Assistant Director Medical Services
ADOS - Assistant Director Ordnance Services
ADRT - Assistant Director Railway Traffic or Transport
ADS - Advanced Dressing Station
ADTn - Assistant Director Transportation
ADVS - Assistant Director Veterinary Services
AEF - American Expeditionary Force
AF - Army form


Bibliography
Call-to-Arms: The British Army 1914-18, Charles Messenger, Cassell Military Books, 2005

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

WWI British Army Acronyms As

AA - anti-aircraft, also Army Act
AADC - Anti-Aircraft Defense Commander
AA&QMG - Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster GEneral
AASC - Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Company
AASS - Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Section
AB - Army Book
ABPO - Advanced Base Post Office
AC - Armoured car
ACC - Army Cyclists Corps
ACG - Assistant Chaplain General
ACI - Army Council Instruction
ACME - Assistant chief mechanical engineer


Bibliography
Call-to-Arms: The British Army 1914-18, Charles Messenger, Cassell Military Books, 2005