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Appendix B - The Admiralty Telephone Directories, 1914–1918

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Nicholas Black
Affiliation:
Dulwich College
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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN DIRECTORY

DDODM = Mining in 1918 list

DOD F = Director of Operations Division (Foreign)

DOD H = Director of Operations Division (Home)

ID* = Night Duty Officer in same room

ID+ = War Room E.1

ID = British Dominion and Colonial Section

ID! = ID Charts

ID” = Government Pigeon Service

MM$ = Routes Section

MM£ = Convoy Section

MM£β = Convoy (North Atlantic)

MM£á= Convoy (South Atlantic)

MM£ϕ = Convoy (Mediterranean)

MM£ϕ = Convoy (Scandinavian)

MM% = Home Section

MM# = Tug Section

PD* = Liaison Officer (Aviation)

ASD* = Charting & Operations

ASD! = Designing & Technical Operations

ASD£ = AP Officers

ASD£: = AP Torpedo

ASD£* = AP Gunnery

ASD£” = AP Hydrophones

ASD£ = AP Nets

ASD$ = Trials, Inventions & experimental stations

ASD% = Production Section

ASD§ = Trials of Apparatus, Contracts etc.

AS = Trials & Shore Stations

ASD¥ = Experiment & Research

ASD- = Paravane Section

G&TD = Gunnery and Torpedo Division

21 CHT = 21 Carlton House Gardens

31 Sp Gd = 31 Spring Gardens

41 Charing X = 41 Charing Cross

Adm Press = Admiralty Press Officer

A Adm Ho. etc. = Room A, Admiralty House

BI = Block I, Admiralty Building

BII = Block II, Admiralty Building

BIII = Block III, Admiralty Building

W/N/S = West/North/South Blocks of the Admiralty, as Blocks I-III were renamed in late 1917

Cecil H. = Cecil Hotel

Cent. B = Central Buildings

County H = County Hall

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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