List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Definition and Overview

Nicknames of regiments and other units of the British Army.

• The Blacks - 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Black Watch - 42nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Blind Half-Hundred - 50th Regiment of Foot
• The Bloody Eleventh - 11th Regiment of Foot
• The Blues - Royal Horse Guards
• The Brickdusts - 53rd Regiment of Foot
• The Buffs - 3rd 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 Shirts - 101st Regiment of Foot (later Royal Munster Fusiliers)
• The Donkey Wallopers - Household Cavalry
• The Elegant Extracts - 8th Regiment of Foot
• 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 Forty-Tens - The 2nd Battalion, The Leinster Regiment.
• The Gay Gordons - Gordon Highlanders
• 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 - 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 Koylis - The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• The Ladies from Hell - Black Watch
• The Linseed Lancers - Royal Army Medical Corps
• The M4 Regiment - Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
• The Minden Boys - 20th Regiment of Foot
• The Mutton Lancers - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
• The Nulli Secundus Club - The Coldstream Guards
• The Old Dozen - 12th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Namurers - The Royal Irish Regiment
• The Orange Lilies - 35th Regiment of Foot
• The Nutcrackers - 3rd Regiment of Foot
• 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 Rifles - Royal Irish Rifles
• 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 Tangerines - 2nd Regiment of Foot
• The Two Fours - The Essex Regiment
• The Ups and Downs - The Welsh Regiment
• The Vein Openers - 29th Regiment of Foot
• The Yeller Bellies - Lincolnshire Regiment