AA              Anti Aircraft (guns or shells)
AFV             Armoured Fighting Vehicle
AMGOT           Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory
AP              Armour Piercing shell
ARV             Armoured Recovery Vehicle
AT              Anti Tank gun
AVRE            Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (modified Churchill tank)
AWD             Allied War Department
Besa            7.92mm machine gun mounted co-axially with main turret gun
CI              Chief Instructor
CMP             Corps of Military Police
Cpl             Corporal
DM              Driver Mechanic
D&M             Driving & Maintenance
DO              Driver Operator
DR              Dispatch Rider
DSO		Distinguished Service Order
EME             Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
FDS             Field (or Forward) Dressing Station
FDS             Forward Deliver Squadron (vehicle & crew replacement)
FFI             Free From Infection
FFI             French Forces of Interior (resistance groups)
FUP             Forming Up Point
GM              Gunner Mechanic
GO              Gunner Operator
HE              High Explosive shell
Honey           Small light reconnaisance tank
HQ              Headquarters
I/C             In command (e.g 2i/c)
KOYLIS          King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Laager          Tank harbour, all round defensive position
LAD             Light Aid Detachment (under REME control)
LCT             Landing Craft Troops
LOB             Left Out of Battle (official rest period)
LST             Landing Ship Tanks
MC		Military Cross
ME              Messerschmidt ME109 fighter aircraft
MG              Machine Gun
Minnies         German Nebelwerfer mortars ("Moaning Minnies")
Mitchells       American B25 twin-engine medium fighter-bomber
Mk IV           German medium Panzer tank
MM		Military Medal
MO              Medical Officer
MT              Motor Transport
Nebelwerfer     German mortar - also known as "Moaning Minnies"
Panther         German tank with the dreaded 88mm gun
Petard          25lb. AVRE-mounted mortar to penetrate concrete
PIAT            Projector Infantry Anti-Tank (spigot bomb launcher)
POW             Prisoner Of War
RASC            Royal Army Service Corps
REME            Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. Same as EME
RO              Reconnaisance Officer
RSM             Regimental Sergeant Major
RTG             Richard Trevor Greenwood, author of this diary
RTR             Royal Tank Regiment
SGT             Sergeant
Sherman         American tank
SP              Self-propelled guns for anti-tank work
Spandau         German rapid-fire machine gun
SQMS            Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant
SQN             Squadron
SSM             Squadron Sergeant Major
Stonk           Heavy barrage of mortar fire
TDU             Tank Deliver Unit
Tiger           German tank
Tpr             Trooper
Typhoon         British (Hawker) low level fighter-bomber

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