Military record abreviations

[Snowyred]

Evening all, I know there is a list for army forms but is there a list for identifying these abriviations, for example 

D.O.46   D.O.48     D.O.89     D.O.31

D.O.42    D.O.52     D.O.92

HA/4189      HA/4337      HA/4407    HA/4799

And what does the HA refer too

Thanks 

[FROGSMILE]

18 minutes ago, Snowyred said:

Evening all, I know there is a list for army forms but is there a list for identifying these abriviations, for example 

D.O.46   D.O.48     D.O.89     D.O.31

D.O.42    D.O.52     D.O.92

HA/4189      HA/4337      HA/4407    HA/4799

And what does the HA refer too

Thanks 

I personally cannot comment on these, but you really need to provide some context to help inform those who can help, i.e. show some specific examples of where these annotations appear.

Edited 12 January , 2022 by FROGSMILE

[johnboy]

First ones possibly Daily orders.

What records are they from?

Edited 12 January , 2022 by johnboy

[horatio2]

They are taken from a Royal Naval Division Record Card (ADM 339) being researched by @Snowyredand are reference numbers for various reports received at the RND Record Office,    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7272466

As @johnboyhas suggested the "DO" references are to orders. It could be Daily Orders or Divisional Orders. The context of the "HA" entries suggests that they are hospital reports, probably Hospital Admissions.

The precise definition DO and HA references is onlyof passing interest, the actual content of the reports being the information needed for research. None of these reports has survived, except as recorded on the RNDRC - but see later "Casualty List" post for 'HA' .

 

Edited 12 January , 2022 by horatio2
Casualty lists edit.

[brianmorris547]

The HA references are List numbers of casualty lists. H and HA were France and Flanders, HB was for UK hospitals, HC was Mediterranean. There was also HD and others. See the thread "Casualty Lists" in Other Forum.

Brian

[charlie962]

1 hour ago, horatio2 said:

precise definition DO and HA references is onlyof passing interest,

That is true for RN and RAF records because they did not suffer the destruction of their archives, unlike Army records.

1 hour ago, brianmorris547 said:

HA references are List numbers of casualty lists. H and HA were France and Flanders, HB was for UK hospitals, HC was Mediterranean. There was also HD and others.

That is useful for decoding those reused half pages of paper that FMP have indexed. Have you constructed a chart of these letters and the sequence numbers to give potential dates and locations? Is it perhaps buried in the depths of the casualty thread?

Charlie

[brianmorris547]

Charlie

Five years ago when I started to post the 1916 RE lists it was just something I noticed. I did try to index the 1916 RE names and cross reference to the H numbers but I found it hard going, mainly because there were a lot of mis spelling of names, wrong service numbers etc. I think this is why FMP just indexed the names as they were appeared. I reduced my 1916 RE index to the RE wounded in the Times Casualty List 11/10/1916, on which my gf is named, and the three September 1916 HA lists that I found, i. e. HA 2336. HA 2728 and HA 2739, which were my first three posts in 2016.

Brian

[Snowyred]

Thanks everyone for all your input, I just wasn't sure because there were so many different abriviations.