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New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Glossary

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Glossary

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-Trichlorethanepage 697
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 Unitpage 698
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