Rank and Service Abbreviations

• actg. Bombardier/acting Bombardier
• actg. Commandant/acting Commandant
• actg. Conductor/acting Conductor
• actg. Deputy Asst. Commissary Gen./acting Deputy Assistant Commissary General
• actg. Lance-Corpl./acting Lance-Corporal
• actg. Lance-Sergt./acting Lance-Sergeant
• actg. Magazine Sergt./acting Magazine Sergeant, Ordnance Department
• actg. Sergt./acting Sergeant
• actg. Sergt.-Maj./acting Sergeant-Major
• actg. Sub Conductor/acting Subordinate Conductor [Commassariat, Ordnance]
• Adjt./Adjutant
• Adjt.-Gen./Adjutant-General
• A.D.C./Aide-de-Camp
• Afghan Field Force
• Agency Surg. [Agency Surgeon]
• Agent
• Apothecary
• Apprentice Apothecary
• Armourer
• Armourer Sergt./Armourer Sergeant
• Armstrong Armourer
• Armstrong Armourer Sergt./Armstrong Armourer Sergeant
• Army Medical Department
• Army Signaller
• Army Veterinary Department
• Asst. Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan/Assistant Agent, Governor General, Baluchistan
• Asst. Adjt.-Gen./Assistant Adjutant-General
• Asst. Adjt.-Gen., Reserve List/Assistant Adjutant-General, Reserve List
• Asst. Agent/Assistant Agent [serving with C.S. superior officer in a region or territory]
• Asst. Apothecary/Assistant Apothecary
• Asst. Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establistment/Assistant Chaplain, Church of England, Bengal Ecclisiastical Establishment
• Asst. Commissary Gen./Assistant Commissary General
• Asst. Commissary of Ordnance/Assistant Commissary of Ordnance]
• Asst. Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner [geographical area]
• Asst. Controller Gen./Assistant Controller General
• Asst. Engineer/Assistant Engineer
• Asst. Field Engineer/Assistant Field Engineer {R.E.]
• Asst. Field Transport Officer/Assistant Field Transport Officer
• Asst. Political Officer/Assistant Political Officer [Civil Service]
• Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Assistant Quarter-Master General
• Asst. Superintendent/Assistant Superintent
• Asst. Superintendent, Bengal Police/Assistant Superintendent, Bengal Police
• Asst. Superintendent of Telegraph/Assistant Superintendent of Telegraph (Khyber Line)]
• Asst. Superintendent of Telegraphs Department/Assistant Superintenden,t Telegraph Department
• Asst. Superintendent of Transport/Assistant Superintendent of Transport
• Asst. Surg./Assistant Surgeon
• Attached [to a regiment, Brigade, or Department]
• Baluchistan Agency
• Band Major
• Band Master
• Band Master Sergt./Band Master Sergeant
• Band Sergt./Band Sergeant
• Barrack Sergt./Barrack Sergeant
• Base Hospital
• Batt./Battery
• Batt. Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant
• Batt. Sergt.-Maj./Battery Sergeant-Major
• Bazaar Sergt./Bazaar Sergeant
• Bde. Maj./Brigade Major
• Bde. Sergt./Brigade Sergeant
• Bde. Surg./Brigade Surgeon
• Bde. Transport Officer/Brigade Transport Officer
• Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment
• Bengal Cavalry
• Bengal Infantry
• Bengal Medical Department
• Bengal Police
• Bhopal Battn./Bhopal Battalion [Bombay Staff Corps]
• Bombardier
• Bombardier Collar Maker
• Bombardier Wheeler
• Bombay Cavalry
• Bombay Commissiariat Dept./Bombay Commissiariat Department
• Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishment
• Bombay Infantry
• Bombay Medical Department
• Bombay Ordnance Department
• Brig.-Gen./Brigadier-General
• Bt./Brevet (preceding rank)
• Bugle Major
• Bugler
• Candahar State Railway
• Capt./Captain
• Carpenter
• Carriage Smith
• Cavalry Bde./Cavalry Brigade
• Chaplain [Wesleyan and Presbyterian Troops]
• Chaplain [Church of Scotland; Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment]
• Chief Commissariat Officer
• Chief Director of Transport
• Chief of the Staff [to Commander of Force, or Divivision]
• Chief of Staff of the Army of India
• Chief Political Officer
• Chief Political Officer, Northern and Eastern Afghanistan
• Cit./cited, citation, citations
• Clerk Orderly Room (see Orderly Room Clerk)
• Coast Brigade R.A./Coast Brigade Royal Artillery
• Col./Colonel
• Collar Maker
• Collar Maker Sergt./Collar Maker Sergeant
• Colour-Sergt./Colour-Sergeant
• Commandant
• Commanding [a regt.]
• Commissariat Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay; Division, Field Force]
• Commissariat Godowns
• Commissariat Sergt./Commissariat Sergeant
• Commissariat Stores
• Commissary Gen./Commissary General
• Commissary Subordinate
• Commissary of Ordnance
• Commissioner [attached to a Division; Civil Service Officer]
• Conductor [Ordnance Department; Commissariat Stores]
• Consulting Engineer, Government of India, State Railways
• Controller General of Supply and Transport
• Corpl./Corporal
• Corpl./Collar Maker/Corporal Collar Maker
• Corps of Armourers
• Corps of Sappers and Miners (Queen’s Own) [R.E.; Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
• Deputy Adjt. Gen./Deputy Adjutant General
• Deputy Asst. Adjt./Deputy Assistant Adjutant
• Deputy Asst. Commissary Gen./Deputy Assistant Commissary General
• Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr. Gen./Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General
• Deputy Commissioner
• Deputy Judge Advocate [to Field Force]
• Deputy Superintendent of Revenue Service
• Deputy Surg.-Gen./Deputy Surgeon-General
• Director of Transport
• District Superintendent (Police)
• Div./Division
• Divisional Field Hospital
• Divisional Provost
• Divisional Transport
• Dressing Station [Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay Medical Departments]
• Driver
• Drum Major
• Drummer
• doing duty [serving with a Division, Regiment, Brigade, etc., on a temporary assignment]
• Ecclesiastical Department [British Army, Indian Army (Bengal, Madras, Bombay)]
• Engineer in Chief [R.E.]
• Engineer in Chief, Kurram Railway Survey [R.E.]
• Executive Commissariat Officer
• Executive Engineer, D.P. Works, State Railways [Executive Engineer, Department of Public Works, State Railways]
• Extra A.D.C./Extra Aide-de-Camp [to a superior officer]
• Farrier
• Farrier Maj./Farrier Major
• Farrier Sergt./Farrier Sergeant
• Fencing Instr./Fencing Instructor
• Field Engineer Park
• Field Hospital
• Field Hospital Transport
• Field Post Master
• Fife Major
• First Trumpeter
• Gen. List/General List [commanding Regt. or Division in a Presidentcy]
• Geological Survey of India
• Ghazni Field Force
• Gunner [R.A.]
• Head Clerk
• Head Intelligence Department
• Head of Political Department in Afghanistan
• Hon. Bde. Surg./Honarary Brigade Surgeon
• Hospital Asst./Hospital Assistant
• Hospital Apothecary
• Hospital Apprentice
• Hospital Bde. Surg./Hospital Brigade Surgeon
• Hospital Officer
• Hospital Sergt./Hospital Sergeant
• Hospital Surg.-Maj./Hospital Surgeon-Major
• Hyderabad Contingent
• Indian Medical Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
• Indian Medical Service
• Inspector Commissariat Department
• Inspector/Inspecting Vet. Surg./Inspector/Inspecting Veterinary Surgeon
• Instr. of Fencing/Instructor of Fencing
• Instr. of Musketry/Instructor of Musketry
• Intelligence Branch
• Interpreter
• Judge Advocate
• Junior Chaplain
• Kabul Field Force
• Kabul-Kandahar Field Force
• Kandahar Survey Department [R.E.]
• Khyber Bde. Field Force/Khyber Brigade Field Force
• Khyber Column
• Khyber Field Force
• Khyber Line
• Khyber Line Force
• Kurram Line
• Kurram Valley Column
• Kurram Valley Field Force
• Lance-Corpl./Lance-Corporal
• Lance-Sergt./Lance-Sergeant
• Lieut./Lieutenant
• Local [preceding rank temporarily held on duty]
• Local Lieut./Local Lieutenant
• Local Maj./Local Major
• Local Brig.-Gen./Local Brigadier-General
• Lt.-Col./Lieutenant-Colonel
• Lt.-Gen./Lieutenant-General
• Madras Artillery
• Madras Cavalry
• Madras Commissariat Depar./Madras Commissariat Department
• Madras Establishment
• Madras Medical Department
• Magazine Sergt./Magazine Sergeant [Ordnance Department]
• Maj./Major
• Maj.-Gen./Major-General
• Medical Department [British Army, Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
• North West [Frontier] Province Police [Transport Department]
• Northern/North Afghanistan Field Force
• Northern Afghanistan Field Park [R.E.]
• Office Clerk
• Officiating Agency Surg./Officiating Agancy Surgeon
• Officiating Apothecary
• Officiating Asst. Apothecary/Officiating Assistant Apothecary
• Officiating Asst. Commissary Gen./Officiating Assistant Commissary General
• Officiating Commandant
• Officiating Conductor [Commissariat Department]
• Officiating Deputy Asst. Qr.-Mr.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Quarter-Master-General
• Officiating Deputy Commissary General
• Officiating Deputy Surg.-Gen./Officiating Deputy Surgeon General
• Officiating Director
• Officiating Magazine Sergt./Officiating Magazine Sergeant
• Officiating Qr.-Mr./Officiating Quarter-Master
• Officiating Squadron Officer
• Officiating Sub Conductor/Officiating Subordinate Conductor
• Officiating Surg./Officiating Surgeon
• Officiating Superintendent Telegraph Department
• Officiating Surg.-Maj./ Officiating Surgeon-Major
• Officiating 2nd Class Apothecary
• Officiating Commandant
• Orderly
• Orderly Officer [serving a superior officer]
• Orderly Room Clerk
• Orderly Room Sergt./Orderly Room Sergeant
• Ordnance Department [of Division, Army]
• Ordnance Depot
• Ordnance Field Park
• Park Conductor
• Park Sergt./Park Sergeant [R.A.]
• Passed Hospital Apprentice
• Passed Hospital Asst./Passed Hospital Assistant
• Paymaster
• Paymaster Capt./Paymaster Captain
• Paymaster Lieut./Paymaster Lieutenant
• Paymaster Sergt./Paymaster Sergeant
• Permanent Conductor [Ordnance]
• Peshawar Valley Field Force
• Pioneer
• Pioneer Sergt./Pioneer Sergeant [R.E.]
• Pipe Major
• Piper
• Piper-Major
• Pishin Moveable Column
• Political Agent [followed by region, territory]
• Political Department, Southern India
• Political Officer
• Police Department [Bengal, Madras, Bombay]
• Police Officer [to a Regt., Div., Force]
• Political Department
• Postmaster
• Principal Commissariat Officer
• Principal/Chief Commissariat Officer
• Principal Medical Officer [of a Field Force]
• Principal Superintendent of Stores [Military Stores Department]
• Principal Vet. Surg./Principal Veterinary Surgeon
• Private
• Probationary Sergt./Probationer Sergeant
• Probationary Squadron Officer
• Probationer [preceding Rank, Staff or Regt.]
• Provisional actg. Bombardier/Provisional acting Bombardier [ R.A.]
• Provisional Lance-Corpl./Provisional Lance-Corporal
• Provisional Lance-Sergt./Provisional Lance-Sergeant
• Provisional Sergt./Provisional Sergeant
• Provisionally [preceding or following Staff or Regt.]
• Provost Marshall
• Punjab Chiefs’ Contingent
• Punjab Line Force
• Qr.-Mr./Quarter-Master
• Qr.-Mr. Gen./Quarter-Master General
• Qr.-Mr. Sergt./Quarter-Master Sergeant
• Quetta Field Force
• R.A. Field Park/Royal Artillery Field Park
• Regt. Sergt.-Maj./Regimental Sergeant-Major
• Regt. Transport Officer/Regimental Transport Officer
• Remount Est./Remount Establishment
• Reserve Div./Reserve Division
• Reserve Officer
• Reserve Transport [Regimental Transport]
• Riding Est./Riding Establishment [R.A.]
• Riding Master
• Road Commandant
• Royal Cavalry
• Saddler Sergt./Saddler Sergeant
• Sappers and Miners [R.E. and Presidentcies]
• Senior Apothecary
• Senior Chaplain
• Senior Medical Officer
• Sergt./Sergeant
• Sergt. Collar Maker/Sergeant Collar Maker [also Collar Maker Sergeant]
• Sergt. Comdr. of Stores/Sergeant Commander of Stores
• Sergt. Commissariat Department [Sergeant with Commissariat Department]
• Sergt.-Farrier/Sergeant-Farrier
• Sergt. Instr. of Fencing/Sergeant Instructor of Fencing
• Sergt. Instr. of Musketry/Sergeant Instructor of Musketry
• Sergt.-Maj./Sergeant-Major
• Sergt. Master Tailor/Sergeant Master Tailor
• Sergt. Wheeler/Sergeant Wheeler [Artillery]
• Shoeing Smith
• Signal Corps
• Signaller
• Southern Afghanistan Field Force
• Squadron
• Squadron Commander
• Squadron Officer [Cavalry]
• Staff Officer
• Staff Paymaster
• Store Sergt./Store Sergeant [Ordnance Departments]
• Sub Asst. Commissary Gen./Subordinate Assistant Commissary General [Commissariat Department]
• Sub Conductor/Subordinate Conductor [followed by Department, Regiment, Force, Division, etc.]
• Sub Hospital Charge [followed by Section of Hospital]
• Sub Lieut./Subordinate Lieutenant
• Sub Medical Department [Subordinate Medical Department], Bengal, Madras, Bombay
• Superintendent [followed by branch, office, dept., etc.]
• Superintendent of Army Signalling
• Superintentent of Post Offices, Baluchistan
• Superintendent of Post Offices, Kabul
• Superintending {R.E.]
• Supertending Communications
• Suply Engineer [R.E.]
• Surg./Surgeon
• Surg.-Gen./Surgeon-General
• Surg.-Maj./Surgeon-Major
• Survey Department [Survey of India; staffed by civilians]
• Survey of India
• Telegraph Department
• Telegraph Operator
• Temporary Commissary [Ordnance]
• Temporary Conductor [Ordnance]
• Temporary Conductor Department [Ordnance]
• Temporary Magazine Sergt./Temporary Magazine Sergeant
• Temporary Sub Conductor/Temporary Subordinate Conductor [R.A, Ordnance.]
• Transport Department
• Transport Officer
• Transport Sergt./Transport Sergeant
• Transport Sergt.-Maj./Transport Sergeant-Major
• Transport Service
• Troop Sergt./Troop Sergeant
• Troop Sergt.-Maj./Troop Sergeant-Major
• Trooper
• Trumpet Maj./Trumpet Major
• Trumpeter
• Unattached List [commanding a regt.]
• Unpassed Hospital Apprentice
• Upper Kurram Valley Bde./Upper Kurram Valley Brigade
• Vet. Surg./Veterinary Surgeon
• Victualing Sergt./Victualing Sergeant [Commissariat Department]
• Warrant Officer
• Wheeler [Artillery]
• Wheeler Bombardier [Artillery]
• Wheeler Corpl./Wheeler Corporal [Artillery]
• Wheeler Sergt./Wheeler Sergeant [Artillery]
• Wing Commander [Queen’s Own Corps of Guides]