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 = Ordinance Sergeant
• PFC = Private First Class
• PVT = Private
• PVT 1CL = Private First Class
• QM = Quartermaster
• QMSGT = Quartermaster Sergeant
• SGM = Sergeant Major
• SGT = 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

See also

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers