List of nicknames of British Army regiments

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This is a list of nicknames of regiments of the British Army. Many nicknames were used by successor regiments (following renaming or amalgamation).

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Leicestershire Regiment [1] [3] (In 1825 the regiment was granted the badge of a "royal tiger" to recall their long service in India)
24th Foot [3]
1st (Royal) Dragoons and Royal Scots Greys [3] [10] (both regiments captured French Imperial Eagle standards at the Battle of Waterloo)
87th Foot [3] (captured a French Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Barrosa)

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E

F

G

H

I

J

K

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Leicestershire Regiment [1] [59]
East Lancashire Regiment [1] [59]
109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment [1] [59]
Liverpool Blues (Regiment), volunteer unit 1745–46 [62]
79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) 1778–84 [59]

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N

O

Northumberland Fusiliers [1] [59]
West Yorkshire Regiment [1] [59]
Worcestershire Regiment [1] [59]

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Q

R

S

6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons [59]
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [4] [59]
62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
The Wiltshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment
57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment [1] [59]
The Northamptonshire Regiment [1] [59]
3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (Army Reserve)
7th Dragoon Guards [59]
7th Hussars [59]

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U

V

W

X

Y

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 Field-Marshal His Majesty the King George V of the United Kingdom
  2. Beevor, p.335
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 Baldry, W. Y. (1921). "'Regimental Nicknames', Part 1". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 1 (1): 29–30. ISSN   0037-9700. JSTOR   44227460. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Hinckley.
  5. Beevor, p.337
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  9. 1 2 Beevor, p.339
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Caffrey, pp. 36–8.
  11. Litchfield, p. 237.
  12. Chant, p 13
  13. Aston & Duggan, pp. 32, 303.
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  16. 1 2 Brewer's
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  19. Col Burnand obituary, The Die-Hards, Vol V, No 2, November 1934, p. 128.
  20. Beevor, p.336
  21. Godfrey
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  28. Carter, p. 22.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Chant, p 116
  30. Chant, p 43
  31. James, p. 109.
  32. Williamson & Whalley, pp. 349–50.
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  35. Barnes, Scottish, p. 292.
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  37. Chant, p 45
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  39. Gilhooley, p. 54.
  40. Barnes, Britain and the Empire, p. 26.
  41. Chant, p 20
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  43. Chant, p 44
  44. Litchfield, p. 97.
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  46. Godfrey, p. 81.
  47. Beckett, p. 61 and Appendix VII.
  48. Westlake, p. 179.
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  50. Beevor, p.334
  51. Rudyard Kipling, The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion, London, 1923/Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1997, ISBN   1-873376-72-3.
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  53. Turton, p. 45.
  54. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Middlebrook, Somme.
  55. 1 2 Chant, p56
  56. Rudyard Kipling, Soldier an' Sailor Too in The Seven Seas.
  57. Holmes, Soldiers, p. 132.
  58. Aston & Duggan, p. 102.
  59. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 Baldry, W. Y. (1921). "Regimental Nicknames', Part 2". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 1 (2): 74–75. ISSN   0037-9700. JSTOR   44219076. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08.
  60. 1 2 Anon, Lewisham Gunners.
  61. 1 2 Chant, p 29
  62. Williamson & Whalley, pp. 31–55.
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  65. 1 2 Leslie/
  66. Gibbon, p. 165.
  67. Chant, p 47
  68. 'Dorsetshire Regiment', Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail, accessed 3 May 2023.
  69. Lowe, p. 17.
  70. Middlebrook, Kaiser's Battle, p. 256.
  71. Williamson & Whalley, p. 145.
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  74. Rose-Innes, pp. 23–4.
  75. Barnes, Scottish, p. 223.
  76. 1 2 "Royal Anglian Regiment". The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  77. Chant, p 59
  78. Rawson, p. 122.
  79. "The Lothians and Border Horse". John Gray Centre. East Lothian Council. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  80. Beckett, p. 70 and Appendix VII.
  81. Westlake, p. 161.
  82. Gibbon, p. 172.
  83. "The story of Oxfordshire Yeomanry – Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars – The QOOH in action". Oxfordshire County Council Museum Service. Archived from the original on 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
  84. Walton, Vol I, p.56.
  85. Aston & Duggan, p. 270.
  86. Chant, p 54
  87. Lowe, p. 26.
  88. C. Digby Planck, History of the Shiny Seventh, London:Old Comrades' Association 1946/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, ISBN   1 84342 366 9.
  89. Chant, p 40
  90. Aston & Duggan, passim.
  91. Neal.
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  94. Morling.
  95. Chant, p 51
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  97. 582nd M/L Battery War Diary 1945, The National Archives (TNA), Kew, file WO 171/5105.

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