List of nicknames of British Army regiments

0

• The 0.7 Hussars – 14th/20th King's Hussars ''''

1

• 1st Invalids – 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment ''''

A

• Agile and Bolton Wanderers – Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders '
• The Aiglers – 87th Foot '
• The Albert Lesters – Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry, also known as "God's Own" in the 3rd Cavalry Division during the Great War.
• Ally Sloper's Cavalry – Army Service Corps '
• Andy Capp's Commandos – Army Catering Corps, named after the famous newspaper cartoon character Andy Capp
• The Angle-irons – Royal Anglian Regiment '
• The Armoured Chavalry – Royal Tank Regiment
• The Armoured Farmers – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
• The Assaye Regiment – 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot ''''

B

• The Back Numbers – Gloucestershire Regiment '
• The Back Flash – Royal Welch Fusiliers
• Bakers Light Bobs – 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• The Balsall Heath Artillery – 3rd South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery '
• The Bangalore Gallopers – 13th Hussars
• The Bangers – 1st Life Guards
• Barrell's Blues – 4th Foot
• The Bays – 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
• The Beavers – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment '
• The Belfast Regiment – 35th Foot
• The Bendovers – 96th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bengal Tigers
• The Bermuda Exiles – Grenadier Guards
• The Bill Browns – Grenadier Guards
• Bingham's Dandies – 17th Lancers '
• The Biscuit Boys – 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
• The Bird Catchers
• The Black Cuffs – Northamptonshire Regiment
• The Black Dragoons – 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
• The Black Hand Gang – 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey), some of whom had been recruited from a notorious Bermondsey street gang of that name
• The Black Horse – 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
• The Black Knots – North Staffordshire Regiment '
• The Black Mafia – Royal Green Jackets
• Blayney's Bloodhounds – 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot '
• The Bleeders – Somerset Light Infantry
• The Blind Half Hundred – 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later Royal West Kent Regiment '
• The Bloodless Lambs – 16th Foot
• The Bloodsuckers – 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bloody Eleventh – 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot, later The Devonshire Regiment '
• The Blue Caps – The Royal Dublin Fusiliers .
• The Blues – Royal Horse Guards '
• The Blue Horse – 4th Dragoon Guards
• The Blue Mafia – Queen's Own Highlanders
• Bobs' Own – Irish Guards '
• The Bomb-proofs – 14th Foot
• The Botherers – King's Own Scottish Borderers '
• The Bounders – 19th Foot
• The Boxers' Battalion – 20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)
• The Brass Heads – 109th Foot
• The Brave Boys of Berks – Berkshire Regiment
• The Brickdusts – 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Brothers – King's Own Scottish Borderers
• Brown's Corps – 1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, raised by Sir William Brown, Baronet, and largely officered by his relatives
• The Brummagen Guards – 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot '
• The Bubbly Jocks – Royal Scots Greys
• Buckmaster's Light Infantry – West India Regiments
• The Budgies – the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
• The Butchers – 37th Foot
• The Buttermilks – 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

C

• Calvert's Entire – West Yorkshire Regiment
• The Cameronians – 1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
• The Carbs – Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds – 11th Hussars
• The Cast Iron Sixth – 6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
• Castor Oil Dragoons – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Cat and Cabbage – The Royal Hampshire Regiment '
• The Cattle Reivers – Border Regiment
• The Cauliflowers 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment '
• The Celestials – 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Centipedes – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Chainy 10th – 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Chavasse's Light Horse – 56th Reconnaissance Regiment '
• Cheeses – 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• The Cheesemongers – Household Cavalry
• The Cherry Pickers – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) '
• The Cherubims – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) '
• Cia ma Tha's – 79th Highlanders '
• The Cloudpunchers – Air Defence regiments of the Royal Artillery
• The Coal Heavers – Grenadier Guards
• The Cockney Jocks – London Scottish
• The Coldstreamers – Coldstream Guards
• The Colonials – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Comical Chemical Corporals – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers '
• The Commos – Royal Army Service Corps '
• The Crossbelts – 8th Hussars
• The Crusaders – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Corned Beef Highlanders – The Cameron Highlanders, used as a reference to the Regimental tartan

D

• The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers
• The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
• The Dandy Ninth – 9th Battalion Royal Scots
• The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers
• The Delhi Spearman – 9th Lancers
• The Desert Rats – 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) then 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom), now 7th Infantry Brigade
• The Devil's Own – 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) later 1st Battalion The Connaught Rangers
• The Devil's Own – Inns of Court Regiment
• The Devils Royals – 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Diehards – 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment
• The Dirty Eighth – 8th Hussars
• The Dirty Half Hundred – 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Dirty Shirts – 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) later 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers
• The Ditchers – 10th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Stockbrokers)
• The Doc's – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry –
• The Dogs – 17th Lancers
• Dog Squadron – 1 Armoured Engineers Squadron
• The Donkey Whallopers – Cavalry
• The Don't-Dance Tenth – 10th Hussars
• The Double X – Lancashire Fusiliers
• Douglas's Ecossais – Royal Scots
• The Drogheda Light Horse – 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
• The Drop-short Rifles – Royal Regiment of Artillery
• The Dubsters – a composite of 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers
• The Duke's – 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own)
• The Duke of Boots – Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Duke's Canaries – Edinburgh (County and City) Militia
• The Dumpies – 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own), 20th Hussars and 21st Lancers

E

• The Eagle-Takers – 87th Foot '
• The Earl of Mar's Grey Breeks – Royal Scots Fusiliers '
• The Edinburgh Regiment – 46th Foot
• The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry '
• Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars
• The Emperor's Chambermaids – 14th King's Hussars '
• England's Northern Cavalry – The Light Dragoons
• The English Jocks – 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Evergreens – 13th Hussars
• The Ever-Sworded – 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment
• The Excellers – 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment ''''

F

• The Faithful Durhams – Durham Light Infantry '
• Faugh-a-Ballagh Boys, or The Faughs – 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers '.
• The Featherbeds – 16th Foot
• The Fighting Fifth – 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
• The Fighting Fifteenth – 15th The King's Hussars
• The Fighting Fortieth – 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment
• The Fighting Ninth – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The First and the Last – 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
• First of Track 1st Royal Tank Regiment '
• Fitch's Grenadiers – The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Five-and-threepennies – 53rd Foot
• The Fifth Skins – 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Flamers – 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Flying Bricklayers – Royal Engineers
• The Fogies – 41st Foot '
• The Fore & Aft – Gloucestershire Regiment '
• The Foreign Legion – Welsh Guards
• The Forty Twas – 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot later Black Watch
• The Forty-Tens – 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment '
• The Four-Wheeled Hussars – Royal Horse Artillery
• The Fragile and Suffering Highlanders – 1st Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, used by other regiments in the Highland Brigade circa 1960/70

G

• The Gallant Half-Hundred – 50th Foot
• The Gallants – 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• The Gallopers – 2nd Life Guards
• The Galloping Gunners – Royal Horse Artillery
• The Garvies – Connaught Rangers
• The Gay Gordons – Gordon Highlanders '
• The Gentleman Dragoons – 17th Lancers
• George's – 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars '
• The Geraniums – 13th Hussars
• The German Legion, or The German Mob – 109th Foot '
• The Glasgow Greys – 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• The Glesca Keelies – 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry , allegedly from local ruffians.
• The Globe Rangers – Royal Marines '
• The Glorious Glosters – The Gloucestershire Regiment
• Lord Adam Gordon's Life Guards – 3rd Hussars
• Graham's Perthshire Grey-Breeks – 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) '
• The Grannies – Grenadier Guards
• The Grasshoppers – 95th (Rifle) Regiment of Foot '
• The Green Cats – 17th Foot '
• The Green Dragoons – 13th Hussars
• The Green Gunners – Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, whose officers continued to wear the Rifle green uniform of the Isle of Wight Rifles after they were converted from infantry to coast artillery
• The Green Horse – 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
• The Green Howards – 19th (1st North Riding of Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot later Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) '
• The Green Jackets – 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps and The Rifle Brigade
• The Green Linnets – 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot later The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Green Tigers – see Green Cats
• The Greybreeks – see Earl of Mar's, and Graham's
• The Grey Dragoons – 2nd Dragoons
• The Grey Lancers – 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
• The Grey Mafia – Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
• The Guards of the Line – 29th Foot
• Guise's Geese – Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• The Gurkhas – Royal Gurkha Rifles

H

• The Halls and Balls Light Infantry – 6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
• The Hampshire Tigers – Royal Hampshire Regiment '
• The Hanoverian White Horse – Royal Fusiliers
• The Havercakes, or The Havercake Lads – 33rd Regiment of Foot later Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) '
• Havelock's Temperance Battalion – 48th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps '
• The Heavy Gunners – Royal Garrison Artillery
• Hell's Last Issue – the Highland Light Infantry '
• The Heroes of Talavera – 47th Foot
• The Herts Guards – Hertfordshire Regiment '
• The Hexham Butchers – North York Militia – '
• The Hindoostan Regiment – 76th Foot
• The Holy Boys – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The Horse Doctors – Royal Army Veterinary Corps
• The Horse Marines – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
• The Housemaids' Pets – Grenadier Guards
• Howard's Garbage – Green Howards
• Howard's Greens – South Wales Borderers
• The Hull Commercials – 10th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Hull Tradesmen – 11th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Hull Sportsmen – 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
• T'Others – 13th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

I

• The Illustrious Garrison – 13th (Somerset) Light Infantry '
• The Immortals – 76th Foot
• The Ink Slingers – Royal Army Pay Corps
• The Iron Chests – 66th Foot
• The Iron Regiment – The Royal Sussex Regiment
• The Irish Giants – The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Irish Lancers – 5th Royal Irish Lancers
• The Isle of Wight Gurkhas – Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight rifles, 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment '
• The Isle of Wight Rifles – 9 Platoon, C Company, 6th/7th Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment ''''

J

• Jacks – Military Police during WWI
• The Jaegers – 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps '
• The Jellalabad Heroes – 13th (Somerset) Light Infantry '
• The Jocks – Scots Guards
• Joeys – Royal Marine Light Infantry
• Jollies – Royal Marine Light Infantry
• The Judaeans – 38th–42nd Battalions Royal Fusiliers ''''

K

• The Kaiser's Own – 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps '
• Kamarha – 79th Highlanders
• The Kids, or Kiddies – Scots Guards name given to the Third Regiment of Foot Guards when reaching King William III's Guards camp in 1686
• The Kingos – King's Liverpool Regiment later King's Regiment
• The King's Men – 78th Highlanders later 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• The King's Hanoverian White Horse – 8th Foot
• Kingsley's Stand – Lancashire Fusiliers
• Kirke's Lambs – The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) '
• Knapp's Nippers – 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey), after their commanding officer
• The Kokky-Olly Birds – The King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Kosbies or Kobs – King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Koylis – The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ''''

L

• The Lacedemonians – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Lambs – 102nd Foot
• The Lancashire Lads – 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• Lancashire Cavalry – B Squadron, Queen's Own Yeomanry
• The Leather Hats – 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot later The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
• The Lewisham Gunners – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
• The Light Bobs – Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry later The Light Infantry
• Lightning Conductors – Cheshire Regiment '
• The Lillywhites
• The Lillywhite Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• The Lilywhites – 13th/18th Royal Hussars
• Limmer's Own – 12th Lancers
• The Lincolnshire Poachers – Lincolnshire Regiment '
• Linseed Lancers – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Lions – The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) '
• The Lions of England – Duke of Lancaster's Regiment
• The Liverpool Blues
• The Liverpool Militia – Irish Guards '
• The 9th London and Lancs – 9th Battalion Devonshire Regiment '
• Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) '
• Lord Wellingtons Bodyguard – Northumberland Fusiliers
• Loyal Lincoln Volunteers – 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Lumpers – 1st Life Guards
• The Lumps – 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

M

• The Macraes – 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• The Maple Leaves – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot
• The Meanee Boys – 22nd Foot '
• The Measurers – Royal Engineers
• The Mediterranean Greys – 50th Foot
• The Micks – Irish Guards '
• The Milestones – 1st Foot
• The Minden Boys – 20th Regiment of Foot later Lancashire Fusiliers
• The Models – 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards
• Monkeys – Royal Military Police
• The Moonrakers – The Wiltshire Regiment '
• The Mounted Micks – 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards '
• The Mudlarks – Royal Engineers
• Murray's Bucks – 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• The Mutton Lancers – Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment ''''

N

• The Namurs – Royal Irish Regiment '
• The Nanny Goats – The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Night-Jars – 10th Battalion Manchester Regiment '
• Nobody's Own – 20th Hussars '
• The Norfolk Howards – The Norfolk Regiment
• The Norsets – 'Composite English Battalion' formed of reinforcement drafts for the 2nd Bn Norfolk Regiment and 2nd Bn Dorset Regiment during the Mesopotamian campaign in 1916
• The Nottingham Hosiers – 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot – '
• The Nottinghamshire Marksmen – Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia
• The Notts and Jocks – Sherwood Foresters
• The Nulli Secundus Club – The Coldstream Guards
• The Nut-Crackers – The Buffs

O

• The Old Agamemnons – 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment
• The Old Bendovers – see Bendovers
• The Old Black Cuffs – 50th Foot – '
• The Old and Bold
• The Old Braggs – 28th Foot
• The Old Bucks – Bedfordshire Regiment '
• The Old Buffs – The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
• The Old Canaries – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
• The Old County Regiment – 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own) after a second regiment was raised in 1798
• The Old Dozen – 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot later The Suffolk Regiment
• Old Eyes – Grenadier Guards
• The Old Farmers – 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards later 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Old Firms – 36th Foot
• Old Five and Threepences – 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Old Fogs – 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Old Hundredth – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Old Iniskillings – Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Old Immortals – 76th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Old Namurers – see The Namurs
• Old Oil Rags – 2nd Dragoons
• The Old Seven and Sixpennies – 76th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Sixteen – Bedfordshire Regiment
• The Old Stubborns – 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
• Old Saucy Seventh – 7th Hussars
• Old Straws – 7th Hussars
• Old Stubborns – 45th Foot
• The Old Toughs – The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Orange Lilies – 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
• The Oxford Blues – Household Cavalry – ''''

P

• Paget's Irregular Horse – 4th Hussars
• Paddy's Blackguards – Royal Irish Regiment
• The Paras – The Parachute Regiment
• The Paschal Lambs – see Kirke's Lambs
• The Patent Safeties – Life Guards
• The Peacemakers – Bedfordshire Regiment '
• The People's Cav Royal Tank Regiment
• Perthshire Grey Breeks – 2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
• The Piccadilly Allsorts – London Scottish
• The Piccadilly Butchers – Life Guards
• The Piccadilly Heroes – Paget's Horse
• The Piccadilly Peacocks – Westminster Dragoons
• The Pig and Whistle Light Infantry – Highland Light Infantry
• The Pigs – 76th Foot
• The Pills – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Plymouth Argylls – composite battalion of Royal Marines and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders formed in Malayan Campaign '
• The Poachers – 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment and The Lincolnshire Regiment '
• The Pompadours – 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment later 3rd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard – 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, later The Royal Scots '
• The Poona Guards – East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Poona Pets – 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Pot Hooks – 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment
• The Potters – 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment recruited from The Potteries area around Stoke-on-Trent
• The Poultice Wallopers – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Prince of Orange's Own Regiment – 35th Foot
• The Princes Street Lancers - Lothians and Border Horse
• The Printers – 2nd City of London Rifle Volunteers '
• The Pull-Throughs – 42nd (East Lancashire) Division '.
• The Pump and Tortoise – 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment ''''

Q

• Blue Mafia – Queen's Own Highlanders
• Queen's Last Resort – Queen's Lancashire Regiment '
• Queer Objects on Horseback – Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars '
• Queers on Horseback – Queen's Own Hussars '
• Quick Let's Run – Queen's Lancashire Regiment '
• The Quill Drivers – Royal Army Pay Corps
• Quick And Ready And Never Caught – Queen Alexanders Royal Army Nursing Corps

R

• Radio Cabs and Taxis – Royal Corps of Transport '
• The Rag and Oil Company – Royal Army Ordnance Corps '
• The Ragged Brigade – 13th Hussars
• The Ramnuggar Boys – 14th King's Hussars '
• Rats After Mouldy Cheese – Royal Army Medical Corps '
• The Ready Reckoners – Highland Regiments
• Really Large Corps – Royal Logistic Corps '
• Reckless Chaps in Trucks – Royal Corps of Transport '
• The Redbreasts – 5th Royal Irish Lancers
• The Redcaps – Royal Military Police '
• The Red Devils – The Parachute Regiment '
• The Red Feathers – 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Red Knights – 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot later Cheshire Regiment
• The Red Lancers – 16th Lancers '
• The Regiment – Special Air Service '
• The Ribs – 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards. They were the first Infantry to officially serve on board navy ships as Marines
• Rice Crispy Tasters – Royal Corps of Transport '
• Rickshaws, Cabs and Taxis – Royal Corps of Transport '
• The Right of the Line – Royal Horse Artillery '
• Rob All My Comrades – Royal Army Medical Corps '
• Rob All Our Comrades – Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Roll on Death – Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Department
• The Rollickers – 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Romulans – Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
• The Rorys – The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• Rough Engineering Made Easy – Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers '
• Royal Army Overseas Commandos – Royal Army Ordnance Corps '
• Royal Engineers Made Easy – Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers '
• The Royal Goats – The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Royal Tigers – York and Lancaster Regiment
• Run Away, Someone's Coming – Royal Army Service Corps '
• Rusty Buckles – 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

S

• The Sandbags – Grenadier Guards
• The Scarlet Lancers – 16th The Queen's Lancers later 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers – the only British lancer regiment to wear red rather than blue uniforms from 1830 to World War I
• The Sanguinary Sweeps – King's Royal Rifle Corps '
• The Saucy Greens – Worcestershire Regiment '
• The Saucy Notts – Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia
• The Saucy Pompeys – 56th Foot
• Saucy Sixth – 6th Regiment of Foot later Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Saucy Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• Sauvages d'Ecosse – Black Watch
• Scaly Backs – Royal Signals
• The Shiners – Northumberland Fusiliers – from their high standard of spit and polish
• The Shiny Fourth – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
• The Shiny Seventh – 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment – being the only red-coated and brass-buttoned battalion in a brigade otherwise uniformed in rifle green with black buttons
• The Shiny Tenth – 10th Royal Hussars
• The Shiny Twelfth – 12th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Bermondsey)
• The Shropshire Gunners – 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – on conversion from a battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, there was a shortage of RA insignia, so the men were ordered to cut the 'KING'S' and 'L.I.' from their shoulder titles, leaving the word 'Shropshire'
• The Skilljngers – Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Skins
• Skull and Crossbones – 17th Lancers '
• The Sleepy Queens – Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
• Slop Jockeys = The Army Catering Corps
• The Snappers – East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Splashers – The Wiltshire Regiment
• The Sprats – 94th Foot
• The Springers
• The Staffordshire Knot – 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
• The Star of the Line – Worcestershire Regiment '
• The Steelbacks
• The Steel Heads – 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Stickies – The Royal Ulster Rifles
• Stink – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers '
• Stonewallers – 37th Foot
• The Stoney Lane Boys – 3rd South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery '
• Strada Reale Highlanders – Gordon Highlanders
• Strawboots
• The Sugar Stick Brigade – Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• The Supple Twelfth – 12th Royal Lancers
• The Surprisers – 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• The Sussex Sappers – 1st Sussex Engineers
• The Sweeps – 95th Rifles later The Rifle Brigade ''''

T

• The Tabs – 15th The King's Hussars later 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• 1st Tangerines – 2nd Foot '
• The Tankies – Royal Tank Regiment specifically, rather than cavalry units equipped with tanks – this differentiates from "tankers" as the US army term for all tank soldiers
• The Tartan Tankies 4th Royal Tank Regiment
• The Tearaways – 49th Foot
• Teenie Weenie Airlines – Army Air Corps
• THEM – Special Air Service – relates to the hush-hush nature of most of their work, where it wouldn't be prudent to mention their name, coined by Auld Sapper.
• The Thin Red Line – 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot later The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Three Quarter Lancers – 9th/12th Royal Lancers '
• The Three Tens – 30th Foot later East Lancashire Regiment
• The Tigers – 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot who amalgamated with 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot to form the Hampshire Regiment in 1881 and now Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
• The Tin Bellies – 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• Titchburns Own – Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The T'Others – 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Tow Rows – Grenadier Guards
• The Trades Union – 1st King's Dragoon Guards
• The Trifles – the Rifles
• The Triple Xs – 30th Regiment of Foot later East Lancashire Regiment
• The Twin Roses – York and Lancaster Regiment
• The Two Fours – 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Essex Regiment
• The Two Fives – 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Border Regiment
• The Two Tens – 20th Regiment of Foot later Lancashire Fusiliers
• The Two Twos – 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
• THOSE – Special Boat Service – for same reasons as per THEM above. As in, being one of THEM or one of THOSE.

U

• The Ups and Downs – 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment – ''because the number 69 reads the same either way up''

V

• The Vein Openers – 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment
• The Vikings – 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• Virgin Mary's Guard – 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Vulgar Fractions – 16/5th Lancers

W

• Wardour's Horse – The Welsh Regiment
• The Warwickshire Lads – Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Wellington's Body Guard – 5th Foot
• Wenlock's Horse – East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry '
• The Whisky Blenders – 34th Foot
• The White Stars – 7th Hussars
• The Whitewashers – 61st Foot
• The Wild Indians – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot
• Wolfe's Own – 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Wonkey Donkeys – Berkshire Yeomanry
• The Woofers – Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment '
• Wright's Irregulars – 582nd Moonlight Battery, Royal Artillery ''''

X

• The XV – 20th Hussars

Y

• The Young Bucks – 85th Foot
• The Young Buffs – 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• Young Eyes – 7th Hussars
• Young and Livelies – York and Lancaster Regiment

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