ALfES             H.V. Clarke’s book, ‘A Life for Every Sleeper’.  
AWM              Australian War Memorial
Bk                   A reference from a history or a memoir
Bn                   Battalion
cd                    Could
Capt               Captain
CME               This is a term that appears to refer to guards, particularly those who were on Borneo: possibly meaning ‘Civilian Military Employee’.
Cmdr               Commander
Cmdt               Commandant
Cpl                  Corporal
CPO                Chief Petty Officer
COFEPOW     Children of Far East Prisoners of War [Association UK]
CWGC            Commonwealth War Graves Commission
DVA               Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Australia.
FEPOW         Far East Prisoners of War [Association UK]
FIC                   French Indo-China
Gnr                  Gunner
HWR               However
L/Cpl               Lance-Corporal
Lt                     Lieutenant
Lt-Col             Lieutenant-Colonel
Lt-Cmdr        Lieutenant-Commander
Maj                 Major
MO                  Medical Officer or Medical Orderly
NAA                National Archives Australia
NCO                Non-commissioned officer
PO                   Petty Officer
Pte                   Private
Q                     Quite
QM                  Quarter-Master
Ref                  Reference
RNEIA            Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
RW                  Railway
S/M                 Sergeant-Major
S/Sgt               Staff-Sergeant
Sgt                   Sergeant
Sgt-Maj          Sergeant-Major
TBRC              Thai-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi
TGG                ‘The Grim Glory of the 2/19th Battalion’
V                     Very
WGC               War Graves Commission
WO                 Warrant Officer