List of military tombstone abbreviations
The following is a partial list of military tombstone abbreviations used in American cemeteries.
United States
Ranks
- BBG = Brevet Brigadier General
- BGEN = Brigadier General
- BMG = Brevet Major General
- CDR = Commander USN
- COL = Colonel
- CPL = Corporal
- CPT = Captain
- CSGT = Commissary Sergeant
- GEN = General
- LCDR = Lieutenant Commander USN
- LGEN = Lieutenant General
- LT = Lieutenant
- 1 LT = First Lieutenant (2 LT = 2nd Lieutenant, and so on)
- Ens - Ensign USN
- LTC = Lieutenant Colonel
- MAJ = Major
- MGEN = Major General
- NCO = Non-commissioned Officer
- OSGT = Ordnance Sergeant
- PFC = Private First Class
- PVT = Private
- PVT 1CL = Private First Class
- QM = Quartermaster
- QMSGT = Quartermaster Sergeant
- SGM = Sergeant Major
- SGT = Sergeant
- SPC = Specialist
- WO = Warrant Officer
U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
Regiments
- 58 PENN. INF. = 58th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers
- 185 N.Y. INF. = 185th Regiment of the New York Infantry Volunteers
Divisions
- CO. G = Company G
- CO. K = Company K
World War I (1917-1918)
Divisions
- 17 CO = 17th Company
See also
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers
- National Cemetery Administration: Headstone and Marker Inscription Abbreviations
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