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
  • CMSGT = Chief Master Sergeant
  • 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
  • MSGT = Master Sergeant
  • 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
  • SFC = Sergeant First Class
  • SMSGT = Senior Master Sergeant
  • SPC = Specialist
  • TSGT = Technical Sergeant
  • 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
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