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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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Leicestershire Regiment[1][56]
East Lancashire Regiment[1][56]
109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment[1][56]
Liverpool Blues (Regiment), volunteer unit 1745–46[59]
79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) 1778–84[56]

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Northumberland Fusiliers[1][56]
West Yorkshire Regiment[1][56]
Worcestershire Regiment[1][56]

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6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons[56]
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers[4][56]
62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
The Wiltshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment
- 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment[1][56]
The Northamptonshire Regiment[1][56]
7th Dragoon Guards[56]
7th Hussars[56]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft Field-Marshal His Majesty the King George V of the United Kingdom
  2. ^ Beevor, p.335
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hinckley.
  5. ^ Beevor, p.337
  6. ^ "The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War". Bedford Regiment. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  7. ^ Beevor, p.354
  8. ^ Barnes, Scottish, pp. 94–5.
  9. ^ a b Beevor, p.339
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Caffrey, pp. 36–8.
  11. ^ Litchfield, p. 237.
  12. ^ Chant, p 13
  13. ^ "History of the Royal Dragoon Guards". The Royal Dragoon Guards Museum and Regimental Association. Archived from the original on 2008-07-28. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  14. ^ "The Green Jacket contribution to the wider army". Royal Green Jackets Regimental Association. Archived from the original on 2008-12-24. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  15. ^ a b Brewer's
  16. ^ Westropp in 'History of the Manchester Regiment' (Wylly 1923)
  17. ^ Barnes, Britain and the Empire, p. 88.
  18. ^ Beevor, p.336
  19. ^ Godfrey
  20. ^ Lieut.-Col. F.E. Whitton, History of the 40th Division, Aldershot; Gale & Polden, 1926/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2004, ISBN 9781843428701, p. 19.
  21. ^ "Lt-Col Kendal Chavasse". Daily Telegraph. 12 May 2001. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  22. ^ Doherty, Richard (2007). The British Reconnaissance Corps in World War II. Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-1846031229.
  23. ^ "Cloudpuncher - ARRSEpedia". Archived from the original on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
  24. ^ a b Richter.
  25. ^ Gilhooley.
  26. ^ Carter, p. 22.
  27. ^ a b c d Chant, p 116
  28. ^ Chant, p 43
  29. ^ James, p. 109.
  30. ^ Williamson & Whalley, pp. 349–50.
  31. ^ Sir Lawrence Weaver, The Story of the Royal Scots, The Lothian Regiment, London: Country Life Military Histories, 1915, Chapter 18. Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ McElwee, William (1974). The Art of War: Waterloo to Mons. London: Purnell. p. 76. ISBN 0-253-31075-X.
  33. ^ Barnes, Scottish, p. 292.
  34. ^ "Napoleon-series.org". Archived from the original on 15 July 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  35. ^ Chant, p 45
  36. ^ "The Light Dragoons". Archived from the original on 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  37. ^ Gilhooley, p. 54.
  38. ^ Barnes, Britain and the Empire, p. 26.
  39. ^ Chant, p 20
  40. ^ "Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum Site". Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  41. ^ Chant, p 44
  42. ^ Litchfield, p. 97.
  43. ^ "Royal Gurkha Rifles". Army Mod UK. Archived from the original on 2009-03-08. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  44. ^ Godfrey, p. 81.
  45. ^ Beckett, p. 61 and Appendix VII.
  46. ^ Westlake, p. 179.
  47. ^ "Falling off the Wagon at Fusiliers Museum". Archived from the original on 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  48. ^ Beevor, p.334
  49. ^ Rudyard Kipling, The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion, London, 1923/Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1997, ISBN 1-873376-72-3.
  50. ^ "The Long, Long Trail". Archived from the original on 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  51. ^ Turton, p. 45.
  52. ^ a b c d e f Middlebrook, Somme.
  53. ^ a b Chant, p56
  54. ^ Rudyard Kipling, Soldier an' Sailor Too in The Seven Seas.
  55. ^ Holmes, Soldiers, p. 132.
  56. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo 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.
  57. ^ a b Anon, Lewisham Gunners.
  58. ^ a b Chant, p 29
  59. ^ Williamson & Whalley, pp. 31–55.
  60. ^ "Irish Guards". Archived from the original on 2013-02-27. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
  61. ^ "The Long, Long Trail". Archived from the original on 2015-11-07. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
  62. ^ a b Leslie/
  63. ^ Gibbon, p. 165.
  64. ^ Chant, p 47
  65. ^ 'Dorsetshire Regiment', Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail, accessed 3 May 2023.
  66. ^ Lowe, p. 17.
  67. ^ Middlebrook, Kaiser's Battle, p. 256.
  68. ^ Williamson & Whalley, p. 145.
  69. ^ a b "The Parachute Regiment". Army Mod UK. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  70. ^ Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, London: Cassell 1957/Penguin 1960.
  71. ^ Rose-Innes, pp. 23–4.
  72. ^ Barnes, Scottish, p. 223.
  73. ^ a b "Royal Anglian Regiment". The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum. Archived from the original on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  74. ^ Chant, p 59
  75. ^ Rawson, p. 122.
  76. ^ Beckett, p. 70 and Appendix VII.
  77. ^ Westlake, p. 161.
  78. ^ Gibbon, p. 172.
  79. ^ "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.
  80. ^ Walton, Vol I, p.56.
  81. ^ Chant, p 54
  82. ^ Lowe, p. 26.
  83. ^ C. Digby Planck, History of the Shiny Seventh, London:Old Comrades' Association 1946/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, ISBN 1 84342 366 9.
  84. ^ Chant, p 40
  85. ^ Neal.
  86. ^ "Birmingham Daily Gazette quoted in 48th Divisional Artillery at Long, Long Trail". Archived from the original on 2022-11-22. Retrieved 2022-11-24.
  87. ^ Chant, p 37
  88. ^ Morling.
  89. ^ Chant, p 51
  90. ^ R.W.S. Norfolk, Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689–1908, York: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965.
  91. ^ 582nd M/L Battery War Diary 1945, The National Archives (TNA), Kew, file WO 171/5105.

References

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