Regimental Nick names

[[GG] Tuncarl]

As this subject came up in a different thread I thought it would be interesting to get a list together of regiments nick names. I am assuming "nick-name" is understood worldwide ? but if not, it is an alternative name for someone/something. Usually shorter but not always and quite ofter it stems for a joke, or a comment of respect etc"

Um, think I will leave word explanations to the dictionary

Anyways, this list is for the Brit army and is direct off Wikipedia. There are a few which are later than our period (Desert Rats, 7th Armoured) but most are old names for regiments that were around in the 19th century.

"Die Hard's" is one of my favoutrites and this is a later name from near the end of the 19th century. They were actually given an order from their commander to "Die Hard" as they were surrounded with no hope of survival.

A lot of names come from uniform colours(buffs, grasshoppers, yeller beliies). Also the regiment number made up some names like fighting 9th etc

Anyways, heres the wiki list...

* The Argyll Marines - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* The Bengal Tigers - South Wales Borderers
* Bingham's Dandies - 17th Lancers
* The Blacks - 7th Dragoon Guards
* The Black Watch - 42nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Regiment)
* The Bloodsuckers - 63rd Regiment of Foot
* The Bloody Eleventh - 11th Regiment of Foot
* The Blue Caps - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
* The Blues - Royal Horse Guards
* Bob's Own - Irish Guards
* The Borg - Royal Green Jackets
* The Brickdusts - 53rd Regiment of Foot
* The Buffs - 3rd Regiment of Foot
* The Cauilflowers - 47th Regiment of Foot
* The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars
* The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers
* The Desert Rats - 7th Armoured Division
* The Devil's Own - The Connaught Rangers
* The Die Hards - 57th Regiment of Foot (later Middlesex Regiment)
* The Dirty Half-Hundred - 50th Regiment of Foot
* The Dirty Shirts - 101st Regiment of Foot (later Royal Munster Fusiliers)
* The Donkey Wallopers - Household Cavalry
* The Dubs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
* The Dukes - 33rd Regiment of Foot, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
* The Elegant Extracts - 7th Regiment of Foot {Royal Fusiliers}
* The Eversworded - 29th Regiment of Foot
* The Excellers - 40th Regiment of Foot - South Lancashire Regiment
* The Faughs - The Royal Irish Fusiliers
* The Fighting Fifth - 5th Regiment of Foot (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers)
* The Fighting Ninth - 9th Regiment of Foot
* The Fore and Aft - Royal Gloucestershire Regiment
* The Forty-Tens - The 2nd Battalion, The Leinster Regiment.
* The Gay Gordons - Gordon Highlanders
* The Granny-knotters - The Staffordshire Regiment
* The Grasshoppers - 95th Regiment of Foot
* The Green Dragoons - 13th Hussars
* The Green Howards - 28th Regiment of Foot - Royal Berkshire Regiment
* The Green Linnets - 39th Regiment of Foot
* The Guards of the Line - 29th Regiment of Foot - Worcestershire Regiment
* The Havercake Lads - 33rd Regiment of Foot - Duke of Wellington's Regiment, previously 1st Yorkshire West Riding Regiment
* The Holy Boys - 9th Regiment of Foot
* The Horse Marines - 17th Lancers
* The Immortals - 76th Regiment of Foot
* 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 M4 Regiment - Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
* The Micks - The Royal Irish Regiment, Irish Guards
* The Minden Boys - 20th Regiment of Foot
* The Mutton Lancers - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
* Nobody's Own - 20th Hussars
* The Nulli Secundus Club - The Coldstream Guards
* The Old Dozen - 12th Regiment of Foot
* The Old Farmers - 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
* The Old Namurers - The Royal Irish Regiment
* The Old Seven and Sixpennies - 76th Regiment of Foot
* The Orange Lilies - 35th Regiment of Foot
* The Old Toughs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
* The Nutcrackers - 3rd Regiment of Foot
* The Pattern - 33rd Regiment of Foot
* The Pigs - 76th Regiment of Foot
* Plymouths - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* The Pompadours - 2nd Battallion, Royal Anglian Regiment
* Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard - 1st Regiment of Foot - The Royal Scots
* The Redcaps - Royal Military Police
* The Red Feathers - 46th Regiment of Foot - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
* The Regiment - 22 SAS regiment
* The Resurrectionists - 3rd Regiment of Foot
* The Rifles - Royal Irish Rifles, 95th Regiment of Foot
* The Ross-Shire Buffs - 78th 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 Sweeps - 95th Regiment of Foot
* The Tangerines - 2nd Regiment of Foot
* The Tots - 17th Lancers
* Two and a Hook - 29th Regiment of Foot
* The Two Fours - The Essex Regiment
* The Ups and Downs - The Welsh Regiment, 96th Regiment of Foot
* The Vein Openers - 29th Regiment of Foot
* The White Lancers - 17th Lancers
* Wolfe's Own - 47th Regiment of Foot
* The Yeller Bellies - 10th Regiment of Foot, Lincolnshire Regiment