WORLD WAR I

Abbreviations

Abbreviations are used liberally throughout these pages. Below is a list of most of them with their meaning.

Services

AIF	Australian Imperial Force
APC	Army Pay Corps
Bde, Bgde	Brigade
Btn, Batt. Bn	Battalion
Coy	Company
Div	Division
DLI	Durham Light Infantry
GG	Grenadier Guards
KORR	Kings Own Royal Rifles
KOSB	Kings Own Scottish Borders
KOYLI	Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
KSLI	Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
MGC	Machine Gun Corps
N&D	Notts & Derby Regiment
PPCLI	Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
RA	Royal Artillery
RAF	Royal Air Force
RAMC	Royal Army Medical Corps
RAOC	Royal Army Ordnance Corps
RASC	Royal Army Service Corps
RE	Royal Engineers
RFA	Royal Field Artillery
RGA	Royal Garrison Artillery
RHA	Royal House Artillery
RNVR	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
SF	Sherwood Foresters
VAD	Voluntary Aid Detachment (Volunteer nurses who served in WW 1)

Ranks

Pte	Private
Gnr	Gunner
Lt/Cpl	Lieutenant Corporal
2/Lt, 2nd Lieut.	Second Lieutenant
Lieut	Lieutenant
L/Col	Lieutenant Colonel
LAC	Leading Aircraftman
Sapper or Pioneer	Equivalent to Private in the Royal Engineers. a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc

Others

Ancestry	Ancestry.co.uk genealogy site
AVL	Absent Voters List
FBMD	Free Births, marriages and deaths web site
b. m. d.	Born, married, died
CWGC	Commonwealth War Graves Commission
FMP	Find My Past.co.uk genealogy site
GR	Genes reunited.co.uk genealogy site

Nat Arch, NA	National Archives
SDiGW	Archive material on web sites: Soldiers who died in WW1
RofH	Roll of Honour

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