Glossary

Deserter (British Army Tattoo 19th Century)

Depth/draught

Director

Deputy

Defence and Employment Platoon

Director of Administrative Planning

Director of Administrative Planning

Director of Amenities

Director of Amenities

Director of Docks

Director of Docks

Director of Education

D Field Troop and Bridging Train, Australian Engineers (formerly D Fd Tp AE)

Director of Hirings

Director of Infantry

Director of Labour

Director of Movements

Director of Military Prisons and Detention Barracks

Director of Military Prisons and Detention Barracks

Director of Intelligence

Director of Manning (Naval)

Director of Navigation (Naval)

Director of Operations

Director of Plans (Naval)

Director of Prisoners of War and Internees

Director of Recruiting and Demobilization

Director of Supplies

Director of Supplies (First World War)

Director of Transport

Director of Tactical Division (Naval)

Director of Works

Director of Organisations

Director of Psychology

Director of Quartering

Director of Railway and Road Transportation

Director of Salvage

Division Signal Company

Director of Signals

Dame of the Order of St John of Jerusalem

Director of Survey

Director of Transportation

Divisional Train

Doctor of Literature

Doctor of Letters

Dive Bombers

Defence Act

Diesel Alternator

Director of Armament

Divisional Artillery

Direct Action

Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General (First World War)

Defeat of Attacks on Australia

Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General (First World War)

Director of Allied Air Cooperation

Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (First World War)

Defend Australia Committee

Director of Army Catering

Divisional Ammunition Column (First World War)

Divisional Artillery Column (First World War)

Deputy Assistant Chaplain General

Deputy Assistant Commissary General

Divisional Ammunition Control Officer

Deputy Assistant Director

Deputy Assistant Director of Amenities

Deputy Assistant Director of Docks

Deputy Assistant Director of Education

Deputy Assistant Director of Labour

Deputy Assistant Director Military Prisons and Detention Barracks

Deputy Assistant Director of Psychology

Deputy Assistant Director of Road Transportation

Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transportation

Deputy Assistant Director of Roads

Deputy Assistant Director of Salvage

Deputy Assistant Director of Survey

Deputy Assistant Director of Transportation

Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary and Remount Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Armament

Deputy Assistant Director of Army Catering

Deputy Assistant Director of Army Postal Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Army Catering

Deputy Assistant Director of Dental Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Engineering Equipment

Deputy Assistant Director General of Medical Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Legal Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (First World War)

Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanical Vehicles

Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Requirements

Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Service

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, 1st Australian Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, 2nd Australian Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, 3rd Australian Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, 4th Australian Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, 5th Australian Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, ANZAC Mounted Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Ordnance Services, Australian Mounted Division [First World War AIF Ordnace Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director of Public Relations

Deputy Assistant Director of Postal Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Postal Services, Australian Corps [First World War AIF Postal Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director of Printing and Stationery Services

Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts

Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies

Deputy Assistant Director of General Stores and Clothing

Deputy Assistant Director of Signal and Radar Equipment

Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport

Deputy Assistant Director of Transport

Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services (First World War)

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, 1st Australian Division [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, 2nd Australian Division [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, 3rd Australian Division [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, 4th Australian Division [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, 5th Australian Division [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director Veterinary Services, B Australian Divisional Group [First World War AIF Veterinary Unit]

Deputy Assistant Director of Water Transport

Director of Army Education

Director of Aircraft Equipment Engineering

Desert Air Force

Director of Air Force Intelligence

Director of Air Force Medicine

Director of Air Force Plans

Deputy Adjutant General (First World War)

Deputy Adjutant General (Personnel Administration)

Deputy Adjutant General (personnel Services)

Disordered action of the heart

Directorate of Army Health Services

Death from Accidental Injuries

Director of Army Inspection (Vietnam War)

Director of Army Information Management

Divisional Artillery Intelligence Officer

Director of Aircraft Engineering

Deputy Assistant Master General of the Ordnance

Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair (Naval)

Deputy Assistant Military Secretary

Defence Administrative Office

Department of Air Organisational Directive

Department of Aircraft Production

Department of Air Project Directive

Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal

Director of Army Postal Services

A drug used by Australians during part of the Vietnam involvement as a malaria suppressant

Director of Army Printing and Stationery Services

Discharged as permanently unfit

Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General

Director of Army Records

Division of Administrative Responsibility of the Services in Operation

Director of Armament Supplies (Naval)

Director of Army Signals

Director of Audit and Service Accounting

Direct Air Support Centre

Director of Air Warfare Organisation and Training (Naval)

District Base

Director of Budget Authorisation and Ecpenditure

Director of Budges and Costing

Director of Boom Defences

District Base Defence Scheme

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Damaged Beyond Repair

Double British Summer Time

Defence Committee

Depth charge

Deputy Chief of Staff (USA)

Divisional Catering Officer

Department of Civil Aviation

Deputy Controller of Army Catering

Deputy Chief of the Air Staff

District Contracts Board

Deputy Chaplain General

Deputy Chief of the General Staff

Defence Counter proliferation Initiative

Defence Council Instruction (United Kingdom)

Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Distinguished Conduct Medal (Awarded to Warrant Officer's and below for acts of gallantry)

District courts martial

Deputy Chief of the Navy

Document Control Number

Defence Communications Network (United Kingdom)

Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (USA)

Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff

Defence Community Organisation

Deputy of Chief of Staff

Director of Coordination - Army

Defence Cooperation Program

Director of Civil Personnel

Deputy Chief Provision Officer

Deputy Commander, Royal Engineers

Deputy Chief of Staff

Director of Canteens Service

Divisional Collecting Station (First World War)

Dual Channel Sidescan

Director Control Tower (RAN)

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Deputy Director

Destroyers (USA)

Deep Draught

Fleet Destroyer

Deputy Director of Amenities

Deputy Director of Organisation

Deputy Director of Royal Australian Engineers

Deputy Director of Supply

Deputy Director of Army Postal Services

Deadline Delivery Date

Discharge Details Depot

Deputy Director of Dental Services

Deputy Director of Engineer Stores

Deputy Director of Fortifications and Works

Guided missile destroyer (RAN)

Destroyer with area surface to air missiles (SAM)

Guided Missile Destroyer

Deputy Director General of Medical Services

Deputy Director General of Medical Services

Deputy Director General of Public Relations

Destroyer with helicopters

Department of Defence Post Hostilities Planning Committee

Director Defence Intelligence Organisation

Deputy Director of Legal Services

Deputy Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Deputy Director of Military Intelligence

Deputy Director of Military Operations

Deputy Director of Military Operations and Intelligence

Deputy Director of Medical Services (First World War)

Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1st ANZAC Corps [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, 2nd ANZAC Corps [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, Australian Imperial Force in Egypt [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, ANZAC Corps [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, Australian Corps [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, Desert Mounted Corps (formerly DDMS, No 3 Section, Canal Defences, and then DDMS, Desert Column) [First World War British Medical Unit]

Director of Medical Services, Egyptian Expeditionary Force [First World War AIF Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, IIIrd Corps [First World War British Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, IXth Corps [First World War British Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, VIIIth Corps [First World War British Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, XXIst Corps [First World War British Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Medical Services, XXth Corps (formerly Deputy Director of Medical Services, Eastern Force [First World War British Medical Unit]

Deputy Director of Military Training

Deputy Director Naval Reserves

Deputy Director of Ordnance Service

Deputy Director Operations and Surveys

Deputy Director of Remounts

Aircraft Direction Frigate

Director of Dental Services

Deputy Director of Staff Duties

Deputy Director Surveys and Plans

Deputy Director of Supply and Transport

Deputy Director of Transport

Dichloro-diphenyl-tricholroethane

Deputy Director of Veterinary Services

Escort Destroyer

Escort Ship

Director of Engineering (Naval)

Deputy Engineer in Chief

Data Exchange Agreements

Director of Establishments Control

Deceased

Top or ceiling of a compartment

Decontamination

Decontaminate

Director of Engineering Equipment

Disposal Enemy Equipment

Defence

Defend

Definition

Defence Officer

The use of herbicides to cause trees and plants to lose their leaves in order to improve observation

Dutch East Indies

Direct Employed Labour

Deliver

Directorate of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Vietnam)

Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships

Dental

Dental Corps

Director of Engineering Plans

Dental Officer

Dental Corps

Dental Unit (Vietnam War)

Dental Assistant

Dental Civic Action Program. See also MEDCAP

Dental Hygienist

Dental Machanic

Depot

Director of Equipment Policy

Director of Equipment Procedure

Director of Equipment Policy and Administration

Department of Air

Dependent

Department

Director of Equipment Requirements

Diesel Engine Road Vehicle

Director of Engineer Stores

Desert Mounted Corps Operating Unit (First World War)

Desert Mounted Corps Operating Unit [First World War British Medical Unit]

Desert Column

Desert Mounted Corps (First World War)

District Engineer Stores Depot

Director of Establishments

Destination

Detachment (Vietnam War)

Detached

Detachment of 1st Division Intelligence Unit

Details

The Devonshire Regiment

Director of Education and Vocational Training

Defensive Fire. Firing of rounds as a protective cover for infantry.

Direction Finding

Drive Front Axle

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Distinguished Flying Cross

Distinguished Flying Medal

District Finance Officer

Director of Finance Pay

Defence Force Retirement Benefits

Director of Flying Safety

Defence Force Service Medal

Director of Flying Training

Director of Fortifications and Works

Dragoon Guards

Degaussing

Diagnose

Director General of Army Medical Services (First World War)

Director General of Armoured Vehicles

Director General of Civil Aviation

Director General Coordination and Organisation - Army

Director of Ground Defence

Director General of Equipment

Director General of Engineering Plans

Director General Fighting Equipment

Defence of Global Interests

Director General Joint Operations and Plans

Director General of Medical Services

Dragoon

Director General of Organisation

Divisional Gas Officer

Director General, Operations and Plans - Army

Direcrot General, Operational Requirements

Director General of Organisation

Director General of Personnel

Director General of Public Information

Director General, Plans and Policy

Director General of Public Relations

Director General, Personnel Services

Director of Graves Registration

Director Graves Registration and Enquiry

Director General of Research Department

Director Gas Services

Director General of Transportation Services

Director General of Weapons and Instruments Production

Desired Ground Zero

Deputy Hydrographer

Director Hydrgraphic Branch

Director Hydrographic Operations

Director Hydrographic Office

Divisional Headquarters (First World War)

Division Headquarters (USA)

Daily inspection

Drill Instructor

Defence Insturction (General)

Defence Insturction (Navy)

Division d'Infanterie Algerienne

Colonial Infantry Division (Division d'Infanterie Coloniale)

Defence Industrial Committee

Detail Issue Depot

Diesel Fuel

Delivery Indicator Group

Deputy Inspector General of Munitions

Dili Force (East Timor)

Division de marche Infanterie

Deputy Inspector, Machine Gun Unit

Defence Intelligence Organisation

District Intelligence & Operations Coordination Centre (VietnamWar)

Direct

An apparatus to determine correct positioning of guns

Discharged (eg from Hospital, or Army)

Defence Intelligence Staff

Defence Information Services

Discharge

District

Distribute

Division or Divisional. Includes units from most branches of the Army.

Divisional Artillery

Divisional Intelligence South

Divisional Locating Battery (Vietnam War)

Divisional Postal Unit (Vietnam War)

Divisional Provost Company (Vietnam War)

Divison Salvage Company

Divisional Signaller (A Signaller posted to a Regiment)

Division Supply & Tranpsort Workshop (Vietnam War)

Divisional Supply Company

Divisional Troops

Divisional Train (First World War)

Director of Inland Water Transport Service

Deputy Judge Advocate?General

Deployable Joint Force Headquarters (East Timor)

Director of Joint Operations

Director of Joint Plans

Director Joint Staff

Director Joint Service Communications

Denmark

Director of Labour

Deck Landing Control Officer (batsman) (Second World War)

Guided Missile Frigate

The Durham Light Infantry

Depot Level Maintenance

Dead Letter Office

Director Light Railways

Divisional Legal Officer

Director of Legal Services

Deck landing training

Nose and Throat Irritant Gas

Director of Mechanization

Defence Media Advisory Group

Director of Maintenance

Draughtsman Architectural

Draughtsman Engineering

Draughtsman Survey

Desert Mounted Corps

Defence Movements Coordinating Committee

Director, Movements Division (Naval)

Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Distance Measuring Equipment

Director of Medical Plans

Deputy Marine Engineering Officer

Deputy Master?General of the Ordnance

Director of Military Intelligence

Demolition

Division Morocaine de Montagne

Director of Military Operations

Director of Military Operations and Intelligence

Directorate of Military Operations and Plans (see also DOP - Directorate of Operations and Plans)

Director of Military Operations and Intelligence

Directorate of Military Operations and Plans (see also DOP - Directorate of Operations and Plans)

Directorate of Movements and Transport

Director of Maintenance Policy

Defence Movements Planning Staff

Director of Movements and Quartering

Deputy Military Secretary

Director of Medical Services (First World War)

Director of Medical Services, Second Army [First World War British Medical Unit]

Director of Medical Services, Fourth Army [First World War British Medical Unit]

Director of Medical Services, Fifth Army [First World War British Medical Unit]

Director of Medical Services, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force [First World War British Medical Unit]

Director of Military Training

Driver Motor Transport (Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force - WAAAF)

Director of Motor Transport Services (First World War)

Director of Mechanical Transport Services, AIF [First World War AIF Supplies and Transport AASC Unit]

Director of Mechanical Vehicles

Demilitarised Zone

Director of Naval Accounts

Director of Naval Air Division

Director of Naval Communications

Director of Naval Equipment

Dutch New Guinea

Director of Naval Intelligence

Directorate of Naval Intelligence and Security

Director of Naval Electrical Branch

Director of Naval Medical Services

Director of Naval Operations

District Naval Officer

Director Naval Officers Postings

Director of Naval Reserves and Naval Reserves Mobilisation

Director of Nursing Services

Director Navigation and Staff Duties

Director of Naval Works

Ditto (same as entry above)

Divisional Orders

Duty Officer (USA)

Demi Official

Director of Borneo Operations (British appointment during Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966)

Died of other causes (First World War)

Defence Operations Centre

Document

Department of Defence

Died of Disease (First World War)

Director of Operations Division (Naval)

Died of illness

Dollar

Director of Organisation and Methods

Darwin Overland Maintenance Force

Director of Overseas Operations

Directorate of Operations and Plans (name change from Directorate of Military Operations and Plans circa 1973)

Director of Ordnance Requirements

Director of Operational Requirements

Division of Responsibility

Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs

Direcrot of Organisation

Director of Operational Research Office

The Dorsetshire Regiment

Director of Ordnance Service

Director of Operational Training

Department of Transport

Director of Naval Ordnance, Torpedoes, and Mines

Code name for operation from March to September 1943 culminating in fall of Salamaua

Director of Ordnance and Underwater Weapons (Naval)

Died of wounds (First World War)

Delivery Point - The place where RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) Transport hands over loads to first line transport of a unit

Director of Postings

Distribution Point

Director of Personnel Administration

Director of Personnel Airmen

Defence Production Committee

Directorate Project Coordination Office

Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform

Depot Production Engineer

Directorate of Personal and Family Services

Deputy Provost Marshal

Director of Personnel Officers

Date and Place of Birth

Director of Public Relations

Director of Public Relations

Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)

Director of Personnel Services

Director of Personnel Services (Conditions of Service/Financial Aspects)

Director of Personnel Services (Ceremonial/Discipline)

Director of Printing and Stationery Services

Department of Post and Telegraphs (Cambodian Government)

Directorate of Prisoners of War and Internees

Demonination of Quality

Director Quality Control

Deputy Quartermaster General (First World War)

Deputy Quartermaster General, General Headquarters, Egyptian Expeditionary Force [First World War British Headquarters Unit]

Despatch Rider

Dead Reckoning

Driver

Director of Royal Artillery

Drive Rear Axle

Delta Regional Assistance Command

Director of Royal Armoured Corps

Director of Royal Australian Engineers

Discharge and Reception Centre

Defence Research Centre

Defence Research and Development Policy Committee

Director of Reserves

Defence Research Group

Defend Regional Interests

Despatch Rider Letter Service

Divisional Routine Orders

Director of Naval Reserves and Senior Officer Reserve Fleet

Director of Repair and Service

Divisional Rest Station (First World War)

Director of Railway Traffic

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North)

Dressing Station

Direct Support

Directing Staff

Deputy Superintendent of Design

District Senior Advisor (United States advisor to a District Chief, normally military)

Defence Signals Bureau (1947-1949)

Defence Signals Branch (1949-1964)

Double Sideband

Director of General Stores and Clothing

Distinguished Service Cross

Division Supply Company

Division Supply Control Point (USA)

Defence Signals Division (1964-1978)

Defence Signals Directorate (1978-)

Director of Staff Duties

District Supply Depot

Director of Selection of Personnel (War Office)

Defence Support Program

Descent Point

Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus (Second World War)

Director Secretary Administration

Deputy Supervising Intelligence Officer

Defence Standards Laboratory

Distinguished Service Medal

Defence Stock Number

Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (To officers for gallantry in face of enemy)

Director of Signal and Radar Equipment

Defence Signals Staff

Defence Security Sub Committee

Deep Sea Sound Range

Director of Supplies and Transport

Direcrtor of Statistics

Defence Sciece and Technology Organisation

Divisional Supply Unit (Peacekeeping)

District Support Unit (Australia Base Support)

Director of Transport

Division Tactical Area. An Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) DTA comprised two or more provinces; the DTA commander was also the ARVN division commander, and the DTA was his permanent Tactical Area of Responsibility (TAOR). (Vietnam War)

Director of Treasury Accounting

Driver Training Course

Director of Telecommunication Engineering

Director of Telecommunications

Date Time Group

Details

Draughtsman

Divisional Trench Mortar Officer (First World War)

Divisional Trench Mortar Officer, Lahore Divisional Artillery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]

Director of Technical Services

Director Tactics Ship Command, Control and Navigation

Director of Training and Staff Requirements Division (Naval)

Director of Technical Training

Ground based personnel sensing devices (Vietnam War)

Detroit United Kaiser Works Amphibious load carrier. Named after US Army's serial numbers DUKW.

Durchgangslager (German) - Prisoner of War transit camp

Depot Unit(s) of Supply

United States armoured track vehicle with twin 40mm cannon used for convoy & base protections

Term used to describe aero-medical evacuation helicopter and/or procedure. Initials stand for "Dedicated and Untiring Support to our Fighting Forces".

Director of Veterinary and Remount Services

Director of Volunteer Defence Corps

Driver

Director of Veterinary Services

Dead Weight

Director of Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Director of Works and Buildings

Director of Weapons Engineering

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

Director of Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC)

Director of Women's Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF)

Director Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS)

Director of Water Transport

Dropping Zone