UNCLAS, Unclassified CD&TC, Camouflage Development and Training Centre

HEGRAZ, High Explosive graze fuze name on a list, An unidentified aircraft / suspected (e/a), Part of the RAF/RCAF responsible for heavy strategic bombing a/c & operations, A mistake; to "pull a boner" is to make a mistake, Amount of power given to engine by throttle setting / manifold FOO, Forward Observation Officer SSM, Staff or Squadron Sergeant Major TU, Training Unit KING’S, The King’s Regiment (Liverpool)
SAR, Search and Rescue GP, Group or General Purpose or Gunpowder 'Royal Air Force' is one option -- get in to view more @ The Web's largest and most authoritative acronyms and abbreviations resource.

DH, Director of Hygiene

WNG O, Warning Order CL YEO, City of London Yeomanry RSB, Regimental Stetcher Bearers

AGC, Adjutant Generals Corps CSDIC, Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre LAB, Laboratory There is no R.A.F. DWV, Director of Weapons and Vehicles

WTS, Women’s Transport Service or Wireless Station

CAGRE, Commander Army Group Royal Engineers ABOW, Advanced Base Ordnance Workshop YORKS H, Yorkshire Hussars MSRU, Mobile Stores Repair Unit MFW, Military Foreman of Works NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation OCTU, Officer Cadet Training Unit TSM, Troop Sergeant Major CCP, Casualty Collecting Point DT, Duty Troop FI, Firing Interval or Fuze Ignition HMSAS, His Majesty’s South African Ship INFM, Inform or Information CLK, Clerk GNF, Guns now firing BWIR, British West Indies Regiment KCB, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath UNSVC, Unserviceable R Ex, Rifle Exercises DL, Dead Load MWEE, Mechanical Warfare Experimental Establishment

GCMG, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George AFW, Army Field Workshops ISO, Companion of the Imperial Service Order STO, Sea Transport Officer (used for Station Transport Officer unofficially) DRM, Director of Reuniting and Mobilisation or Director of Raw Materials

EP, Equipment Park or Electrical Power PSTO, Principal Sea Transport Officer ULO, Unit Landing Officer PW, Prisoner of War QAL - are you going to /have you landed at ... QBA - what is the horizontal visibility at ... ? PAIFORCE, Persia and Iraq Force

COP, Combined Operations Portsmouth VEB, Variable Elevation Beam M/H, Medium and Heavy POW, Prisoner of War or Filled Powder

BX, Beeswax Light AA TNG REGT, Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment ASS, Artillery Signal Section TP, Test Pilot or Traffic Post or Troop or Training Progress DDOS (P), Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (Provision)
EAM, Equipment Ammunition Magazine

RIDG, Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards A Fd Wkshop, Army Field Workshop

POL, Petroleum Oil and Lubricants GBD, General Base Depot AASL (Coy), Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Company

YEO, Cheshire Yeomanry Both services were consulted and both reacted unfavourably—the Navy unhappy about the use of its higher ranks and the Army complaining it provided the "junior ranks". Families Federation Abbreviations and Acronyms, MoD a dim view" or dim-wit, An area in which aircraft are dispersed as a precaution against enemy air attack, To land on/in water; from 'In the Ditch'

SQD, Squadron

AVF, All Volunteer Force CIC, Combined Intelligence Committee SO, Senior Officer or Staff Officer or Section Officer    or   Air Frame Mechanic, RAF / RCAF ground crew trained to defend their base against hostile ground troops, Air Observation Post, light aircraft flown by an Army officer to provide info for ranging field guns, Light with shuner for signaling in Morse code, Instrument giving an aircraft's altitude based on air pressure &/or ground-reflected radio signals, Altitude; to "gain angels"; 1 Angel = 1000 feet, Avro Anson - principal twin-engined training aircraft used in Canada, Safety devices to ensure that bombs did not detonate prematurely after release, Air Force units assigned to help the army with photo-reconnaissance & ground attack work, An aircraft landing of barely adequate standard, (observation) Navigation using stars & a sextant, Dome / opening in fuselage roof for Astro observation.

MOD, Ministry of Defence

IND FD AMB TP, Indian Field Ambulance Troop

DENT, Dental DAA, Divisional Administrative Area DDMO, Deputy Director of Military Operations Memorial TI - Target Indicator (flare) TICU - TRE - Telecomms Research Establishment TRS - Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron TS - Training Squadron TSTU - Transport Support Training Unit TTB - Towed Target Bombing TTC - Technical Training Command TTF - Target Towing Flight TTO - Towed-Target Operator, UAS University Air Squadron U/C - undercarriage UKAIR - NATO HQ in UK responsible for maintaining integrity of UK Air Defence Region and over UK nuclear force assigned to SACEUR UKWMO - UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation U/S - Unserviceable USAAC - United States Army Air Corps USAAF - United States Army Air Force (designated thus from June 20 1941, although the term Army Air Corps remained in use long after that date: post war, USAF, USAFE - USAF Europe) U/T - Under training, VACU - visibility and clouds unlimited (possibly American) VC - Victoria Cross VCAS - Vice Chief of the Air Staff VGS - Volunteer Gliding School(s) (Air Cadets, various locations) VHF - Very High Frequency VOS - Vazdvhoplovna Oficirsva Skola, (Aviation Officers School) VR - Vazovhoplovna Radionica, (Aviation Repair Workshop) V/STOL - Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing VTB Vazdvhoplovna-Tehnicki Battalion, (Aviation Technical Battalion), WAAF - Women's Auxiliary Air Force WCAD W/Cdr - Wing Commander (also W/C) w.e.f. WSL, War Supplies Limited

LIEUT CMDR, Lieutenant-Commander TRN, Railway Train (complete with engine) STSD, Stores Transit Sub-Depot IACC, Indian Army Corps of Clerks WG, Wing or Welsh Guards WIS, Wireless Intelligence Screen RO, Recruiting Officer or Retired Officer or Routine Order These usually disgruntled "soldiers" were NZE, New Zealand Engineers ESO, Embarkation Staff Officer USSAF, United States Army Air Force RASC, Royal Army Service Corps FS Offr, Field Security Officer D Arm P, Director of Armament Production SWB, South Wales Borderers DRAE, Director of Royal Aircraft Establishment ISI, Imperial Service Infantry

SDS, Signals Despatch Service or Sheds

ACD, Army Chaplain’s Department or Assistant Chaplain General RD CONSTR COY, Road Construction Company (E), Equipment Branch Officer R H SUP DET, Railhead Supply Detachments

CVO, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order AOFP, Army Ordnance Field Park DDT (A), Deputy Director of Training (Armament) INSTAL A, Installations type A EVAC, Evacuate Armd C, Armoured Car