LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AG	Adjutant-General
AAG	Assistant Adjutant-General
ADC	Aide-de-Camp
AMS	Assistant Military Secretary
APM	Assistant Provost Marshal
Bde	Brigade
BEF	British Expeditionary Force
BGGS	Brigadier-General, General Staff
BGRA	Brigadier-General, Royal Artillery
BLL	Brotherton Library, Leeds
BLO	Bodleian Library, Oxford
CAB	Cabinet Papers
CE	Chief Engineer
CIGS	Chief of the Imperial General Staff
CGS	Chief of the General Staff
C-in-C	Commander-in-Chief
CO	Commanding Officer
CRA	Commanding Royal Artillery
CRE	Commanding Royal Engineers
DA	Deputy Adjutant
DAAG	Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General
DMO	Director of Military Operations
DMT	Director of Military Training
DSD	Director of Staff Duties
DSO	Distinguished Service Order
FOO	Forward Observation Officer
FSR	Field Service Regulations
GHQ	General Headquarters
GOC	General Officer Commanding
GQG	Grand Quartier Général (French General Headquarters)
GSOI	General Staff Officer (Grade 1)
GSO2	General Staff Officer (Grade 2)
GSO3	General Staff Officer (Grade 3)
HAR	Heavy Artillery Reserve
HE	High Explosive
HLI	Highland Light Infantry
HMSO	Her Majesty’s Stationary Office
HQ	Headquarters
IWM	Imperial War Museum
KIA	Killed in action
KOSB	King’s Own Scottish Borders
KOYLI	Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
KRRC	King’s Royal Rifle Corps
LHCMA	Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London
MGGS	Major-General, General Staff
MGRA	Major-General, Royal Artillery
NAM	National Army Museum
NCO	Non-Commissioned Officer
OC	Officer Commanding
OHL	Oberste Heersleitung (German General Headquarters)
OP	Observation Post
OR	Other Ranks
PRO	Public Record Office
QMG	Quartermaster-General
RA	Royal Artillery
RAMC	Royal Army Medical Corps
RE	Royal Engineers
RFA	Royal Field Artillery
RFC	Royal Flying Corps
RGA	Royal Garrison Artillery
RHA	Royal Horse Artillery
TNA	The National Archives of the UK, Kew
VC	Victoria Cross
WO	War Office