Abbreviations
ADC Aide-de-Camp
ADS Advanced Dressing Station
AFPU Army Film & Photo Unit
Bde Brigade
BEF British Expeditionary Force
Btn Battalion
Cameronians 2 Battalion Cameronian Regiment
Cheshires 7 Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Coldstream Guards 3 Battalion, Coldstream Guards
C-in-C Commander-in-Chief
CO Commanding Officer
Comd Command
Col Colonel
Coy Company
CSM Company Sergeant Major
CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission
DSO Distinguished Service Order
DUKW Wheeled amphibious truck
DYRMS Duke of York’s Royal Military School
FDS Forward Dressing Station
Fus Fusilier
Gdsm Guardsman
GOC General Officer Commanding
GR Grid Reference
Green Howards 1 Battalion, Green Howards Regiment
Grenadier Guards 6 Battalion Grenadier Guards
Inniskillings 2 Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Regiment
IRTD Infantry Recruit Training Depot
IWM Imperial War Museum
KOYLI 1 Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment
LCT Landing Craft Tank
Lt Lieutenant
MC Military Cross
MM Military Medal
MMG Motor Machine Gun
NCO Non-Commissioned Officer
Northants 2 Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
PIAT Projector, Infantry Anti-Tank (Grenade)
Pte or Pvt Private
RA Royal Artillery
RAMC Royal Army Medical Corps
RAP Regimental Aid Post
Royal Scots Fusiliers 2 Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers Regiment
‘S’ mines Shrapnel mines
Schmeisser German equivalent of British Tommy-gun
Scots Guards 2 Battalion, Scots Guards
Seaforth’s 6 Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Regiment
Tac Tactical
TNA The National Archives
Tommy Gun British sub-machine gun
TSMG Tactical Support Machine Gun – Vickers MMG
York & Lancs. 1 Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment
Wiltshire’s 2 Battalion, Wiltshire Regimen
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