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Comment

Description

Country

A and SH

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Argyll snd Sutherland Highlanders

UK

AA

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Ardrossan Academy

UK

AAOC

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Australian Army Ordnance Corps

Australia

AAV

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Ayrshire Artillery Volunteers

UK

ACH

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Australian Commonwealth Horse

Australia

ALH

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Australian Light Horse

Australia

AMR

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Auckland Mounted Rifles

NZ

AOC

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Army Ordnance Corps

UK

APL

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Aden Protectorate Levies

UK

ARR

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Australian Rifle Regiment

Australia

ARRE

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Assault Regiment Royal Engineers

UK

AVLH

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Assam Valley Light Horse

UK

AyrY

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Ayrshire Yeomanry

UK

B&R

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The Blues and Royals

B&WD

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Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons

Bays

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The Queen's Bays

BNI

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Bengal Native Infantry

Border

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The Border Regiment

BSAP

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British South Africa Police [Rhodesia]

Buffs

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The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)

BW

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The Black Watch

BWIR

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British West Indies Regiment

ByNI

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Bombay Native Infantry

Cam

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Camb.

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The Cambridgeshire Regiment

CAR

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Canadian Airborne Regiment

CG

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Coldstream Guards

Ches

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The Cheshire Regiment

CIV

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City Imperial Volunteers

CMP

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Corps of Military Police

CMR

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Cape Mounted Riflemen [Imperial]

CMR

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Canadian Mounted Rifles

COLY

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County of London Yeomanry

CPRC

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Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

CTH

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Cape Town Highlanders

CyLY

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City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)

D&D

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The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

DCLI

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The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

DCO

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Duke of Connaught's Own

DERR

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment

Devon

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The Devonshire Regiment

DG

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Dragoon Guards

DLI

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Durban Light Infantry

DLI

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The Durham Light Infantry

DLOY

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Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

DWR

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The Duke of Wellington's Regiment

EAA

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East African Artillery

EAAC

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East African Armoured Corps

EAASC

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East African Army Service Corps

EAE

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East African Engineers

EAEME

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East African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

EIRR

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East India Railways Volunteer Rifles

India

ELan

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The East Lancashire Regiment

EME

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Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

ERY

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East Riding Yeomanry

Essex

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The Essex Regiment

EssexY

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Essex Yeomanry

ESy

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The East Surrey Regiment

EYork

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The East Yorkshire Regiment

FFY

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Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

Fin Rif

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The Finsbury Rifles

Foresters

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The Sherwood Foresters

FSR

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First Surrey Rifles

GCR

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Gold Coast Regiment

GDF

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Gibraltar Defence Force

GG

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Grenadier Guards

GH

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The Green Howards

GlamY

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Glamorgan Yeomanry

GlasgH

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The Glasgow Highlanders

Glosters

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The Gloucestershire Regiment

Gordons

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The Gordon Highlanders

GR

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Gurkha Rifles

Greys

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The Royal Scots Greys

GTR

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The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment

H&BY

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Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry

HAC

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Honourable Artillery Company

Hants.

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Hampshire

HCY

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Hampshire Carabiniers Yeomanry

Herts.

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The Hertfordshire Regiment

HertsY

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Hertfordshire Yeomanry

HG

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Home Guard

NZ

HKSRA

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Hong Kong Singapore Royal Artillery

HKVDC

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Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

HLI

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The Highland Light Infantry

I Arty

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Indian Artillery

IAC

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Indian Armoured Corps

IASC

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Indian Army Service Corps

ICC

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Imperial Camel Corps

IG

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Irish Guards

Innis

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Inniskilling

IY

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Imperial Yeomanry

KACR

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Kenya Armoured Car Regiment

KAR

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King's African Rifles

KDG

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1st King's Dragoon Guards

KEH

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King Edward's Horse

KentY

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Kent Yeomanry

KEO

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King Edward's Own

KGL

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King's German Legion

KGO

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King George's Own

KLR

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The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

KOCR

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The King's Own Calgary Regiment

KODR

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King's Overseas Dominions Regiment

KOMR

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King's Own Malta Regiment

KORBR

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The King's Own Royal Border Regiment

KORR

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The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

KOSB

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The King's Own Scottish Borderers

KOYLI

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The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

KOYYLI

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The King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry)

KRH

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The King's Royal Hussars

KRRC

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The King's Royal Rifle Corps

KSLI

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The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

LanarkY

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Lanarkshire Yeomanry

LanH

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Lancashire Hussars

LanR

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The Lancashire Regiment ((Prince of Wales's Volunteers)

LBH

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Lothians and Border Horse

LD

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The Light Dragoons

LdSH

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Lord Strathcona's Horse

LDY

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Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry

Leic

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The Royal Leicestershire Regiment

LF

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The Lancashire Fusiliers

LG

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Life Guards

Linc

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The Lincolnshire Regiment

Lincolns

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The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

LivSco

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The Liverpool Scottish

LNL

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The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

LonSco

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The London Scottish

LovScts

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Lovat Scouts

Loyals

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The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

LRB

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London Rifle Brigade

LS

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The London Scottish

LSuffH

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TheDuke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars

Manch

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The Manchester Regiment

MGC

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Machine Gun Corps

Middx

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The Middlesex Regiment

MLI

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Mahratta Light Infantry

MNI

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Madras Native Infantry

Mon

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The Monmouthshire Regiment

MongY

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Montgomeryshire Yeomanry

MTA

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Mauritius Territorial Artillery

MxR

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The Middlesex Regiment

NC

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Natal Carbineers

NC

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Royal Natal Carbineers

NF

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The Northumberland Fusiliers

NFA

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Natal Field Artillery

NH

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Northumberland Hussars

NIH

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North Irish Horse

NMR

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Natal Mounted Rifles

Norf

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The Norfolk Regiment

NorfY

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Norfolk Yeomanry (The King's Own Royal Regiment)

Northants

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The Northamptonshire Regiment

NR

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Nigeria Regiment

NRR

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Northern Rhodesia Regiment

NS&BY

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North Somerset and Bristol Yeomanry

NSomY

-

North Somerset Yeomanry

NStaffs

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The North Staffordshire Regiment

OBLI

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The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

PAO

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Prince Albert's Own

PemY

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Pembroke Yeomanry (Castlemartin)

PFF

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Punjab Frontier Force

PIF

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Punjab Irregular Force

PIR

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Pacific Islands Regiment

PLKR

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Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment

PPCLI

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Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

PWO

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The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

PWRR

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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

QDG

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1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards

QGE

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The Queen's Gurkha Engineers

QLR

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The Queen's Lancashire Regiment

QMI

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Queensland Mounted Infantry

QMO

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Queen Mary's Own

QO

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Queen's Own

QOCG

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Queen's Own Corps of Guides

QOCH

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

QODY

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The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry

QOH

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The Queen's Own Hussars

QOLY

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The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry

QOOH

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The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

QORGY

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The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry

QORWK

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The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

QOWKY

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The Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry

QOWWY

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The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry

QOY

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The Queen's Own Yeomanry

QRH

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The Queen's Royal Hussars

QRIH

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The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars

QRL

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The Queen's Royal Lancers

QRV

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Queenstown Rifle Volunteers

QVR

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Queen Victoria's Rifles

QW

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The Queen's Westminsters

R Innis. F

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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

R IRISH

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The Royal Irish Regiment

R Scots

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The Royal Scots

R WX Y

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The Royal Wessex Yeomanry

R1stDY

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Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry

RA

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Royal Artillery

RAA

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Royal Australian Artillery

RAC

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Royal Armoured Corps

RAE

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Royal Australian Engineers

RAF

-

Royal Air Force

RAOC

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Royal Army Ordnance Corps

RAR

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Rhodesian African Rifles

RAR

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The Royal Australian Regiment

RASC

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Royal Army Service Corps

RB

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The Rifle Brigade

RBerks

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The Royal Berkshire Regiment

RBH

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Royal Bucks Hussars

RCA

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Royal Canadian Artillery

RCAC

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Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

RCD

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Royal Canadian Dragoons

RCHA

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Royal Canadian Horse Artillery

RCMP

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RCR

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The Royal Canadian Regiment

RCRR

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The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment

RD

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The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons)

RDF

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The Royal Dublin Fusiliers

RDG

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The Royal Dragoon Guards

RDLI

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The Royal Durban Light Infantry

RDY

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Royal Devon Yeomanry

RE

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Corps of Royal Engineers

REME

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Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

RF

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The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

RFA

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Royal Field Artillery

RFC

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Royal Flying Corps

RG

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Royal Gibraltar Regiment

RGA

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Royal Garrison Artillery

RGBW

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The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

RGH

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Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

RGJ

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The Royal Green Jackets

RGR

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The Royal Gurkha Rifles

RH

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The Royal Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)

RH&FA

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Royal Horse and Field Artillery

RHA

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Royal Horse Artillery

RhACR

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Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment

RHamps

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The Royal Hampshire Regiment

RHF

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The Royal Highland Fusiliers

RHG

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Royal Horse Guards

RHG/D

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The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and Royals Dragoons)

RHKR(V)

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The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (Volunteers)

RHR

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The Royal Highlanders Regiment

RhSAS

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Rhodesian Special Air Service

RIA

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Royal Indian Artillery

RInnisks

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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

RIrF

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The Royal Irish Fusiliers

RIrRgrs

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The Royal Irish Rangers

RLI

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Rand Light Infantry

RLI

-

Rhodesian Light Infantry

RM

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Royal Marines

RMA

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Royal Malta Artillery

RMF

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The Royal Munster Fusiliers

RMLI

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Royal Marine Light Infantry

RMLY

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The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

RMonRE

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Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers

RNF

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The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

RNSWR

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Royal New South Wales Regiment

Australia

RNZA

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Royal New Zealand Artillery

RNZE

-

Royal New Zealand Engineers

RNZIR

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The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment

RPR

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Royal Pioneer Corps

RQR

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The Royal Queensland Regiment

RRF

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The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

RRR

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Royal Rhodesia Regiment

RRW

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The Royal Regiment of Wales

RS

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The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

RSA

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Royal School of Artillery

RSAR

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The Royal South Australia Regiment

RSDG

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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

RSF

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The Royal Scots Fusiliers

RSx

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The Royal Sussex Regiment

RTR

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The Royal Tank Regiment

RTR

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The Royal Tasmania Regiment

RUR

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The Royal Ulster Rifles

RVC

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Rifle Volunteer Corps

RVR

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The Royal Victoria Regiment

RW Kent

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The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

RWAFF

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Royal West African Frontier Force

RWAR

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The Royal Western Australia Regiment

RWarw

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The Royal Warwickshire Regiment

RWF

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The Royal Welsh Fusiliers

RWiltsY

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Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

RYR

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Royal Yeomanry Regiment

S. Lancs

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The South Lancashire Regiment

SAA

-

South African Artillery

SAAC

-

South African Armoured Corps

SADF

-

South African Defence Force

SAI

-

South African Infantry

SAI Regt

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South African Irish Regiment

SALH

-

South African Light Horse

SALH

-

South Alberta Light Horse

SAMR

-

South Australia Mounted Rifles

SAS

-

Special Air Service

SASR

-

Special Air Service Regiment

SCLI

-

The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry

ScoHse

-

Scottish Horse

ScoRif

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The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

SDGH

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Stormont and Glengarry Highlanders

Sea. H.

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Seaforth Highlanders

SEA. R

Seaforth Highlanders - Rifle battalion?

Canada

SG

-

Scots Guards

ShropsY

-

Shropshire Yeomanry

SIH

-

South Irish Horse

SNHY

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South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry

Som. LI

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The Somerset Light Infantry

SR

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Scottish Rifles

SRA

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Southern Rhodesia Artillery

SRR

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Special Reconnaissance Regiment

SRY

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Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry

SStaffs

-

The South Staffordshire Regiment

StaffsR

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The Staffordshire Regiment

Suff

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The Suffolk Regiment

SWB

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The South Wales Borderers

SxY

-

Sussex Yeomanry

SyY

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Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

THR

-

Tower Hamlets Rifles

TJFF

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Trans-Jordan Frontier Force

TVC

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Tientsin Volunteer Corps

VMR

-

Victorian Mounted Rifles

VRC

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Volunteer Rifle Corps

W Rid R

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The West Riding Regiment

W&CY

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Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry

W&SFR

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The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

WAA

-

West African Artillery

WAAC

-

West African Armoured Corps

WAR

-

West African Regiment

Welsh

-

The Welsh Regiment

WESSEX

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The Wessex Regiment

WFR

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The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

WG

-

Welsh Guards

Wilts

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The Wiltshire Regiment

WIR

-

West India Regiment

WNTS

Watts Naval Training School, Norfolk

UK

Worc

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The Worcestershire Regiment

WR

-

Witwatersrand Rifles

WSomY

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West Somerset Yeomanry

WYork

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The West Yorkshire Regiment

Y&L

-

The York and Lancaster Regiment

Yorks.

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The Yorkshire Regiment (Princess Alexandra's)

YorksD

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The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons

YorksH

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Yorkshire Hussars