List of nicknames of British Army regiments

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Nicknames of regiments

Nicknames of regiments and other units of the British Army.

• The Agile and Suffering Highlanders - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Argyll Marines - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Bairns - The Scots Guards
• The Bengal Tigers - South Wales Borderers^[1]
• Bingham's Dandies - 17th Lancers^[1]
• The Birmingham Fusiliers - Royal Welch Fusiliers
• The Blacks - 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Black Watch - 42nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Regiment)^[1]
• The Black Mafia - Royal Green Jackets
• The Bloodsuckers - 63rd Regiment of Foot
• The Bloody Eleventh - 11th Regiment of Foot, later The Devonshire Regiment^[1]
• The Blue Caps - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Blues - Royal Horse Guards^[1]
• Bob's Own - Irish Guards
• The Bogging Royals - Royal Scots
• The Borg - Royal Green Jackets
• The Bone Heads (17/21st Lancers)
• The Brickdusts - 53rd Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Buffs - 3rd Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Cams - Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• The Cat and Cabbage - The York and Lancaster Regiment
• The Cauliflowers - 47th Regiment of Foot
• The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars
• The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (the nickname has stuck with the Queen's Royal Lancers)
• The Death Heads - 17th Lancers (the nickname has stuck with the Queen's Royal Lancers)
• The Desert Rats - 7th Armoured Division
• The Devil's Own - 88th Regiment of Foot, The Connaught Rangers, also the Inns of Court Regiment^[1]
• The Diehards - 57th Regiment of Foot (later the West Middlesex Regiment)^[1]
• The Dirty Half-Hundred - 50th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Dirty Shirts - 101st Regiment of Foot (later Royal Munster Fusiliers)^[1]
• The Donkey Wallopers - Household Cavalry
• The Dubs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Dukes - 33rd Regiment of Foot, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Duke of Boots - 33rd Regiment of Foot, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Eagle Catchers - The Royal Scots Greys; The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
• The Elegant Extracts - 7th Regiment of Foot {Royal Fusiliers} ^[1]
• The Emperor's Chambermaids - 14th King's Hussars
• The Ever-Sworded - 29th Regiment of Foot (later Worcestershire Regiment)^[1]
• The Excellers - 40th Regiment of Foot - South Lancashire Regiment
• Falling Plates - Royal Green Jackets
• The Farmersboys - Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment
• The Faughs - The Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Fighting Fifth - 5th Regiment of Foot (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers)^[1]
• The Fighting Ninth - 9th Regiment of Foot
• The First and Worst - The Royal Scots
• The Fore and Afts - Royal Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Forty-Tens - The 2nd Battalion, The Leinster Regiment
• The Gay Gordons - Gordon Highlanders
• The Glorious Glosters - The Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Granny-Knotters - The Staffordshire Regiment
• The Grasshoppers - 95th Regiment of Foot
• The Green Dragoons - 13th Hussars^[1]
• The Green Howards - 19th Regiment of Foot,^[1] 28th Regiment of Foot - Royal Berkshire Regiment
• The Green Linnets - 39th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Green Mafia - Light Infantry
• The Green Slime - Intelligence Corps
• The Guards of the Line - 29th Regiment of Foot - Worcestershire Regiment
• The Havercake Lads - 33rd Regiment of Foot (1st West Riding Regiment), later Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• Hell's Latest Invention - Highland Light Infantry
• Hickety Pip - 65th Regiment of Foot
• The Holy Boys - 9th Regiment of Foot
• The Horse Marines - 17th Lancers
• The Immortals - 76th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Iron Fist - 20th Armoured Brigade (The Iron Fist)^[2]
• The Iron Regiment - The Royal Sussex Regiment
• King's Hanoverian White Horse- 47th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• King's Men - 78th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Kosbies - The King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Koylis - The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• The Ladies from Hell - Black Watch
• The Lambs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Lancashire Lads - 47th Regiment of Foot
• The Leather Hats - 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
• The Linseed Lancers - Royal Army Medical Corps
• Liverpool Blues - 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)
• The Loggies - Royal Logistic Corps
• Manningham's Sharpshooters - 95th Regiment of Foot
• The Maroon Machine - The Parachute Regiment
• The M4 Regiment - Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
• The Micks - The Royal Irish Regiment, Irish Guards
• The Minden Boys - 20th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Monkeys - Royal Military Police
• The Mutton Lancers - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
• Nobody's Own - 20th Hussars
• The Nulli Secundus Club - The Coldstream Guards^[1]
• The Nutcrackers - 3rd Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Old Dozen - 12th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Farmers - 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Old Namurs - The Royal Irish Regiment
• The Old Seven and Sixpennies - 76th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Toughs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Orange Lilies - 35th Regiment of Foot^[1]
• The Paras - The Parachute Regiment
• The Pattern Regiment - 33rd Regiment of Foot
• Pauper's Horse - The 13th/18th Hussars
• The Pigs - 76th Regiment of Foot
• Plymouths - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Poachers - 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
• The Poison Dwarves - The Cameronians
• The Pompadours - 56th Regiment of Foot^[1] 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard - 1st Regiment of Foot, later The Royal Scots^[1]
• The Plymouth Argylls - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Queen's Last Resort - The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
• Queer Objects On Horseback -Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
• The Redcaps - Royal Military Police
• The Red Feathers - 46th Regiment of Foot - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry^[1]
• The Regiment - 22 SAS regiment
• The Resurrectionists - 3rd Regiment of Foot
• The Rifles - Royal Irish Rifles, 95th Regiment of Foot
• The Rories - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Ross-Shire Buffs - 78th Regiment of Foot
• The Royal Goats - Royal Welch Fusiliers^[1]
• The Royal Tigers - 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
• Sankey's Horse - 39th Regiment of Foot
• Saucy Sixth - 6th Regiment of Foot
• The Skins - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Slashers - 28th Regiment of Foot - The Glosters (Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment)
• The Surrey Highlanders - Scots Guards
• The Steelbacks - The Northamptonshire Regiment
• The Stormers - The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• The Sweeps - 95th Regiment of Foot
• The Tabs - 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• The Tangerines - 2nd Regiment of Foot
• The Thin Red Line - 93rd Highlanders, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders^[1]
• The Three-quarter Lancers - 9th/12th Royal Lancers
• The Tigers - 37/67th of Foot The Royal Hampshire Regiment
• The Tigers - Royal Leicestershire Regiment
• The Tots - 17th Lancers
• The Two and Hook - 29th Regiment of Foot
• The Two Fours - The Essex Regiment
• The Two Fives - The 55th Regiment of Foot
• The Ups and Downs - The Welsh Regiment, 96th Regiment of Foot
• The Vein Openers - 29th Regiment of Foot
• The Vikings - 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• The Vulgar Fraction - 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
• The Watch - The Black Watch
• The Wild MacRaes - The Seaforth Highlanders
• The White Lancers - 17th Lancers
• Wolfe's Own - 47th Regiment of Foot
• The Yellowbellies - 10th Regiment of Foot, Lincolnshire Regiment
• The Young and Lovelies - 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot

[edit] See also

• List of warships by nickname
• Nicknames of U.S. Army divisions
• Regimental nicknames of the Canadian Forces

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

• Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. London: Cassell, n.d.