1A&SH – First Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1GLOS – First Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
1KOSB – First Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1KSLI – First Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
1MX – First Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
1PPCLI – First Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
1RNF – First Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [5th Fusiliers]
1RUR – First Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles
2PPCLI – Second Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
3RAR – Third Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
8RIH – Eighth King’s Royal Irish Hussars
11LAA – 11 (Sphinx) Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery
16FR – 16 Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery
27BCB – 27th British Commonwealth Brigade
28CB – 28th Commonwealth Brigade
29BIB – 29th British Independent Infantry Brigade Group
45FR – 45 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
170IMB – 170 Independent Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery
AGPS – Australian Government Publishing Service
AIF – 2nd Australian Imperial Force [World War II]
ANZ – Archives New Zealand, Wellington
ANZAC – Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [World War I]
AT – anti-tank
AWM – Australian War Memorial, Canberra
BCT – Battalion Combat Team
Bde – Brigade
BLSA – British Library Sound Archive, St. Pancras
Bn – Battalion
CCF – Chinese Communist Forces
CIGS – Chief of the Imperial General Staff
CO – Commanding Officer
CP – Command Post
CPV – Chinese People’s Volunteers
CTC – Civil Transportation Corps
DCM – Distinguished Conduct Medal
DSO – Distinguished Service Order
DHH – Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence, Ottawa
FM – Field Marshal
FOO – Forward Observation Officer
GCM – George C. Marshall Library, Lexington, Va.
GOC – General Officer Commanding
HMSO – Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
HQ – Headquarters
i/c – in command
IO – Intelligence Officer
IWMDB – Department of Books, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
IWMDD – Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
IWMDS – Department of Sound, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
LMG – Light Machine-Gun
MC – Military Cross
MM – Military Medal
MMG – Medium Machine-Gun
MO – Medical Officer
MP – Member of Parliament
MSR – Main Supply Route
NAA – National Archives of Australia, Canberra
NAM – National Army Museum, Chelsea
NARA – National Archives and Records Administration, Archives II, College Park, Md.
NCO – Non-Commissioned Officer
NKPA – North Korean People’s Army
NLAC – National Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa
OBE – Order of the British Empire
OC – Officer Commanding
PLA – People’s Liberation Army
PUC – Presidential Unit Citation
RA – Royal Artillery
RAMC – Royal Army Medical Corps
RAP – Regimental Aid Post
RE – Royal Engineers
R&R – Rest and Recreation
RASC – Royal Army Service Corps
RCT – Regimental Combat Team
RNF – Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
RNZA – Royal New Zealand Artillery
ROK – Republic of Korea [army]
RSM – Regimental Sergeant Major
R/T – radio receiver/transmitter
RUR – Royal Ulster Rifles
SA – Small Arms
SOE – Special Operations Executive
TNA – The National Archives, Kew
UN – United Nations
USAF – United States Air Force
USAMHI – United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.
USGPO – United States Government Printing Office
USMC – United States Marine Corps
UVic – University of Victoria Library
VAC – Veterans Affairs Canada
VC – Victoria Cross
WD – War Diary
