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| P.S. ||Private Secretary
P, Q, R
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| P.A. ||Private Affairs
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|P. BTY. || Indian Army Pack Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
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|P. BTY. F. F.|| Indian Army Pack Battery Frontier Force
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| P.C. ||Passed College Examination in the Persian & Hindoostanee Languages
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| P.C.H. ||Passed College Examination in the Hindoostanee Language
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|P. CPS. || Indian Army Pony Corps
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| P.H. ||Passed District Examination in the Hindoostanee Language
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| preb. ||Prebendary.
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| PRO ||[[Public Records Office]] (now called TNA, [[The National Archives]])
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|P.R.V.F.C.|| Pakistan Remount, Veterinary & Farm Corps
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| P.S. ||Private Secretary
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|P.V.O. || Principal Veterinary Officer
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| PWD ||[[Public Works Department]]
| Q.C. ||Queen's Counsel.
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|Q.M. || Quartermaster|-|Qmr. || Quartermaster|-| Q.M.G ||Quartermaster-General|-|Q.M.S. || Quartermaster Sergeant, a Staff Sergeant attached to each regiment, providing soldier's quarters, rations, ammunition, other supplies, laying out camp |-|QVC ||style of Royal Crown on badges depicting that worn by Queen Victoria from 1837-1901
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! Abbreviation!! Definition
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| (R.) ||Radical.
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| r. f. p/ Ret.f.p. ||Retired on full pay.
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| R.A. ||[[Royal Artillery]]|-| R.A. ||Royal Academician
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| R.A. V.C. ||Royal Academician.Army Veterinary Corps
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| R.C. ||Roman Catholic.
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| R.D. ||Rural Dean.
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| R.E. ||[[Corps of Royal Engineers|Royal Engineers]]|-| Rect. ||Rector|-| Rev. ||Reverend.
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| R.H.A. ||[[Royal Horse Artillery.]]
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| R.H.M. S. ||[[Duke of York's Military School|Royal Marines.Hibernian Military School]]
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| R.MI.A. S.C.|| Royal Marines Artillery,Indian Army Service Corps
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| RRif/Rifl.N. ||Royal Navy.Rifle (Regiment/Brigade)
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| R.NL.R A. ||Royal Naval Beserve.Relay Dressing Station, for dressing wounds on the way to the rear
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| RectR. M. ||Rector.Royal Marines
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| RevR. M.A. ||Reverend. Royal Marines Artillery
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| RHA R.M.A. ||[[ Royal Horse Artillery]]Military Academy (Woolwich)
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| Rif/RiflRMT. Dept.|| [[Remount Department]]|-| R.N. ||[[Royal Navy]]|-| R.N.R ||Royal Naval Reserve|-|R.P.C. || Remount Purchasing Commission|-|R.Q.M.S. ||Rifle Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant|-|R.S. || Remount Squadron|-|R.S.M. || Regimental Sergeant Major, the senior most ranking NCO (Regiment/BrigadeWarrant Officer)in a regiment, the most powerful man in the battalion after the C.O.|-|R.V.F.C.C. || Remount, Veterinary & Farms Corps Centre, Indian Army|-|R.V.H. || Reserve Veterinary Hospital
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| RN R.V.O. ||[[Royal Navy]] Regimental Veterinary Officer
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