AA & QMG A/Q |
Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General |
AAMC |
Australian Army Medical Corps |
A & D |
Admission and Discharge |
ADH |
Assistant Director of Hygiene |
ADMS |
Assistant Director of Medical Services |
ADOS |
Assistant Director of Ordnance Services |
ADS |
Advanced Dressing Station |
AFHQ |
Allied Force Headquarters |
AFS |
American Field Service
|
AI |
Accidental Injury |
AIF |
Australian Imperial Force
|
AMCU |
Anti-malaria Control Unit |
AMD |
Army Medical Department |
AMGOT |
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory |
APM |
Assistant Provost Marshal |
ASC |
Army Service Corps |
ATS |
Anti-tetanus Serum |
BC |
Battle Casualty |
BCOF |
British Commonwealth Occupation Force |
BID |
Brought in Dead |
BMA |
British Medical Association |
BNA |
British
North Africa |
BP |
Blood Pressure |
BT |
Benign Tertian (malaria) |
BTE |
British Troops in
Egypt |
CCS |
Casualty Clearing Station |
CD |
Contagious Disease |
CMF |
Central Mediterranean Force |
CNS |
Central Nervous System |
CO |
Commanding Officer |
DAAG |
Deputy Assistant Adjutant General |
DADH |
Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene |
DADMS |
Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services |
DAPM |
Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal |
DDMS
|
Deputy Director of Medical Services |
DDP |
Deputy Director of Pathology |
DDS |
Director of Dental Services |
DDT |
Dichlor-Diphenyl-Trichlorethane
|
DGMS |
Director-General of Medical Services |
DJAG |
Deputy Judge Advocate General |
DMS |
Director of Medical Services |
EMS |
Emergency Medical Service |
ENT |
Ear, Nose, and Throat |
EPIP |
European Privates, Indian Pattern (tent) |
FDS |
Field Dressing Station |
FGCM |
Field General Court Martial |
FSU |
Field Surgical Unit |
FTU |
Field Transfusion Unit |
GHQ |
General Headquarters |
GOC |
General Officer Commanding |
GS |
General Service |
GSW |
Gunshot Wound |
HMT |
His Majesty's Troopship (Transport) |
HP |
High Pressure |
HP |
Hospital Pattern |
HQ |
Headquarters |
HS |
Hospital Ship |
IAT |
Inflammation Areolar Tissue |
KLB |
Klebs Loeffler Bacillus |
L of C |
Line of Communication |
LG |
Landing Ground |
LRDG |
Long Range Desert Group
|
MAC |
Motor Ambulance Column (Convoy) |
MDS |
Main Dressing Station |
MEF |
Middle East Force |
MI Room |
Medical Inspection Room |
MO |
Medical Officer |
MRC |
Medical Research Council |
MSU |
Mobile Surgical Unit
|
MT |
Malignant Tertian (malaria) |
NAAFI
|
Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes |
NAB |
Nov-Arseno-Benzol |
NCO |
Non-commissioned officer |
NYD (N) |
Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous) |
NZEF |
New Zealand Expeditionary Force |
NZEF (IP) |
New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in
Pacific) |
NZEF (
UK) |
New Zealand Expeditionary Force (
United Kingdom) |
NZGH |
New Zealand General Hospital |
NZMC
|
New Zealand Medical Corps |
OC |
Officer Commanding |
OCTU |
Officer Cadet Training Unit
|
ONS |
Organisation for National Security |
ORA |
Operation Room Assistant |
ORs |
Other Ranks |
OUMC |
Otago University Medical Company |
PA |
Prophylactic Ablution |
PAD |
Passive Air Defence |
PMO |
Principal Medical Officer |
PUO |
Pyrexia of Unknown Origin |
PW |
Prisoner of War |
QAIMNS
|
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service |
QM |
Quartermaster |
RAMC |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
RAP |
Regimental Aid Post |
RMO |
Regimental Medical Officer |
RMT |
Reserve Mechanical Transport |
RNZAF
|
Royal New Zealand Air Force |
RNZN
|
Royal New Zealand Navy |
RTU |
Reinforcement Transit Unit |
SMO |
Senior Medical Officer |
Stalag |
Prison Camp, Other Ranks (in
Germany) |
TAB |
Typhoid, Paratyphoid A and B (vaccine) |
TANS |
Territorial
Army Nursing Service (British) |
Tb |
Tuberculosis |
UDF |
Union Defence Force (South Africa) |
VAD |
Voluntary Aid Detachment |
VD |
Venereal Disease |
VDTC |
Venereal Disease Treatment Centre |
WAAC
|
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
WE |
War Establishment |
WO |
Warrant Officer |
WSP |
Water Softening Powder |
WWSA |
Women's War Service Auxiliary |