List of nicknames of British Army regiments

1

• 1st Invalids – 41st Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment

  A

• Agile and Bolton Wanderers – Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders '
• The Aiglers – 87th Foot '
• The Albert Lesters – Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry, also known as "God's Own" in the 3rd Cavalry Division during the Great War.
• Ally Sloper's Cavalry – Army Service Corps '
• Andy Capp's Commandos - Army Catering Corps, named after the famous newspaper cartoon character Andy Capp
• The Angle-irons – Royal Anglian Regiment'
• The Armoured Chavalry – Royal Tank Regiment
• The Armoured Farmers – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment '
• The Assaye Regiment – 74th Regiment of Foot '

  B

• The Back Numbers – Gloucestershire Regiment '
• The Back Flash – Royal Welch Fusiliers
• Bakers Light Bobs – 10th Royal Hussars
• The Bangalore Gallopers – 13th Hussars
• The Bangers – 1st Life Guards
• Barrell's Blues – 4th Foot
• The Bays – 2nd Dragoon Guards
• The Beavers – 100th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment '
• The Belfast Regiment – 35th Foot
• The Bendovers – 96th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bengal Tigers
• The Bermuda Exiles – Grenadier Guards
• The Bill Browns - Grenadier Guards
• Bingham's Dandies – 17th Lancers '
• The Biscuit Boys – 49th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
• The Bird Catchers
• The Black Cuffs – Northamptonshire Regiment
• The Black Dragoons – 6th Dragoons
• The Black Horse – 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Black Knots – North Staffordshire Regiment '
• The Black Mafia – Royal Green Jackets
• Blayney's Bloodhounds – 89th Regiment of Foot '
• The Bleeders – Somerset Light Infantry
• The Blind Half Hundred – 50th Regiment of Foot later Royal West Kent Regiment '
• The Bloodless Lambs – 16th Foot
• The Bloodsuckers – 63rd Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bloody Eleventh – 11th Regiment of Foot, later The Devonshire Regiment '
• The Blue Caps – The Royal Dublin Fusiliers .
• The Blues – Royal Horse Guards '
• The Blue Horse – 4th Dragoon Guards
• Bobs' Own – Irish Guards '
• The Bomb-proofs – 14th Foot
• The Botherers – King's Own Scottish Borderers '
• The Bounders – 19th Foot
• The Brass Heads – 109th Foot
• The Brave Boys of Berks – Berkshire Regiment
• The Brickdusts – 53rd Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Brothers – King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Brummagen Guards – 29th Regiment of Foot '
• The Bubbly Jocks – Royal Scots Greys
• Buckmaster's Light Infantry – West India Regiments
• The Budgies – the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers'
• The Butchers – 37th Foot
• The Buttermilks – 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

  C

• Calvert's Entire – West Yorkshire Regiment
• The Cameronians – 1st Battalion The Cameronians
• The Carbs – Carabiniers
• Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds – 11th Hussars
• The Cast Iron Sixth – 6th Battalion, London Regiment
• Castor Oil Dragoons – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Cat and Cabbage – The Royal Hampshire Regiment
• The Cattle Reivers – Border Regiment
• The Cauliflowers 47th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment '
• The Celestials - 97th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Centipedes - 100th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Chainy 10th - 10th Royal Hussars
• Cheeses - 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• The Cheesemongers - Household Cavalry
• The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars '
• The Cherubims - 11th Hussars '
• Cia ma Tha's'' – 79th Highlanders '
• The Cloudpunchers - Air Defence regiments of the Royal Artillery
• The Coal Heavers - Grenadier Guards
• The Cockney Jocks – London Scottish
• The Coldstreamers - Coldstream Guards
• The Colonials - 100th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Comical Chemical Corporals – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers '
• The Commos – Royal Army Service Corps '
• The Crossbelts – 8th Hussars
• The Crusaders - 100th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Corned Beef Highlanders - The Cameron Highlanders, used as a reference to the Regimental tartan

  D

• The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers
• The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
• The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers '
• The Delhi Spearman – 9th Lancers
• The Desert Rats - 7th Armoured Division then 7th Armoured Brigade
• The Devil's Own – 88th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Connaught Rangers
• The Devil's Own – Inns of Court Regiment
• The Devils Royals – 50th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Diehards – 57th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment '
• The Dirty Eighth – 8th Hussars
• The Dirty Half Hundred – 50th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Dirty Shirts – 101st Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers '
• The Doc's – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry – from their initials DOCLI
• The Dogs – 17th Lancers
• Dog Squadron - 1 Armoured Engineers Squadron
• The Donkey Whallopers – Cavalry
• The Don't-Dance Tenth – 10th Hussars
• The Double X – Lancashire Fusiliers '
• Douglas's Ecossais – Royal Scots '
• The Drogheda Light Horse – 18th Royal Hussars
• The Drop-short Rifles – Royal Regiment of Artillery
• The Duke of Boots – The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment
• The Dumpies – 19th Royal Hussars, 20th Hussars and 21st Lancers '

  E

• The Eagle-Takers – 87th Foot '
• The Earl of Mar's Grey Breeks – Royal Scots Fusiliers '
• The Edinburgh Regiment – 46th Foot
• The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry '
• Eliott's Light Horse – 15th The King's Hussars
• The Emperor's Chambermaids – 14th King's Hussars '
• England's Northern Cavalry – The Light Dragoons
• The Evergreens – 13th Hussars
• The Ever-Sworded – 29th Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment
• The Excellers – 40th Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment

  F

• The Faithful Durhams – Durham Light Infantry '
• Faugh-a-Ballagh Boys, or The Faughs – 87th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers during the Peninsular War.
• The Featherbeds – 16th Foot
• The Fighting Fifth – 5th Regiment of Foot later Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
• The Fighting Fifteenth – 15th The King's Hussars
• The Fighting Fortieth – 40th Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment
• The Fighting Ninth – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The First and the Last – 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
• First of Track 1st Royal Tank Regiment '
• Fitch's Grenadiers – The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Five-and-threepennies – 53rd Foot
• The Flamers – 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Flying Bricklayers – Royal Engineers
• The Fogies – 41st Foot '
• The Fore & Aft – Gloucestershire Regiment '
• The Foreign Legion – Welsh Guards
• The Forty Twas – 42nd Regiment of Foot later Black Watch
• The Forty-Tens – 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment ''
• The Four-Wheeled Hussars – Royal Horse Artillery
• The Fragile and Suffering Highlanders - 1st Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, used by other regiments in the Highland Brigade circa 1960/70

  G

• The Gallant Half-Hundred – 50th Foot
• The Gallants – 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• The Gallopers – 2nd Life Guards
• The Galloping Gunners – Royal Horse Artillery
• The Garvies – Connaught Rangers
• The Gay Gordons – Gordon Highlanders'
• The Gentleman Dragoons – 17th Lancers
• George's – 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars '
• The Geraniums – 13th Hussars
• The German Legion, or The German Mob – 109th Foot '
• The Glasgow Greys – 70th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• The Glesca Keelies – 71st Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry, allegedly from local ruffians .
• The Globe Rangers – Royal Marines '
• The Glorious Glosters – The Gloucestershire Regiment
• Lord Adam Gordon's Life Guards – 3rd Hussars
• Graham's Perthshire Grey-Breeks – 90th Regiment of Foot '
• The Grannies – Grenadier Guards
• The Grasshoppers – 95th Regiment of Foot '
• The Green Cats – 17th Foot '
• The Green Dragoons – 13th Hussars
• The Green Horse – 5th Dragoon Guards
• The Green Howards – 19th Regiment of Foot later Green Howards '
• The Green Jackets – 60th Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps and The Rifle Brigade
• The Green Linnets – 39th Regiment of Foot later The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Green Tigers – see Green Cats
• The Greybreeks – see Earl of Mar's, and Graham's
• The Grey Dragoons – 2nd Dragoons
• The Grey Lancers – 21st Lancers
• The Guards of the Line – 29th Foot
• Guise's Geese – Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• The Gurkhas – Royal Gurkha Rifles

  H

• The Halls and Balls Light Infantry – 6th Battalion, London Regiment
• The Hampshire Tigers – Royal Hampshire Regiment '
• The Hanoverian White Horse – Royal Fusiliers
• The Havercakes, or The Havercake Lads – 33rd Regiment of Foot later Duke of Wellington's Regiment – because their recruiting officers walked along with an oatcake on their sword-point
• Havelock's Temperance Battalion – 48th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps recruited by the noted Temperance campaigner George Cruikshank
• The Heavy Gunners – Royal Garrison Artillery
• Hell's Last Issue – the Highland Light Infantry'
• The Heroes of Talavera – 47th Foot
• The Herts Guards – Hertfordshire Regiment
• The Hindoostan Regiment – 76th Foot
• The Holy Boys – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The Horse Doctors – Royal Army Veterinary Corps
• The Horse Marines – 17th Lancers
• The Housemaids' Pets – Grenadier Guards
• Howard's Garbage – Green Howards
• Howard's Greens – South Wales Borderers
• The Hull Commercials – 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Hull Tradesmen – 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Hull Sportsmen – 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
• The T'Others – 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

  I

• The Illustrious Garrison – 13th Light Infantry '
• The Immortals – 76th Foot
• The Ink Slingers – Royal Army Pay Corps
• The Iron Chests – 66th Foot
• The Iron Regiment – The Royal Sussex Regiment
• The Irish Giants – The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Irish Lancers – 5th Royal Irish Lancers
• The Isle of Wight Gurkhas – Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight rifles, 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment '
• The Isle of Wight Rifles – 9 Platoon, C Company, 6th/7th Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

  J

• Jacks – Military Police during WWI
• The Jaegers – 60th Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps '
• The Jellalabad Heroes – 13th Light Infantry '
• The Jocks – Scots Guards '
• Joeys – Royal Marine Light Infantry
• Jollies – Royal Marine Light Infantry
• The Judaeans – 38th–42nd Battalions Royal Fusiliers '

  K

• The Kaiser's Own – 60th Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps '
• Kamarha – 79th Highlanders
• The Kids, or Kiddies – Scots Guards name given to the Third Regiment of Foot Guards when reaching King William III's Guards camp in 1686
• The Kingos – King's Liverpool Regiment later King's Regiment
• The King's Men – 78th Highlanders later 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• The King's Hanoverian White Horse – 8th Foot
• Kingsley's Stand – Lancashire Fusiliers
• Kirke's Lambs – The Queen's '
• The Kokky-Olly Birds – The King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Kosbies or Kobs – King's Own Scottish Borderers '
• The Koylis – The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry '

  L

• The Lacedemonians – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Lambs – 102nd Foot
• The Lancashire Lads – 47th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• Lancashire Cavalry – B Squadron, Queen's Own Yeomanry
• The Leather Hats – 8th Regiment of Foot later The King's
• The Lewisham Gunners – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
• The Light Bobs – Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry later The Light Infantry
• Lightning Conductors – Cheshire Regiment '
• The Lillywhites
• The Lillywhite Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• The Lilywhites – 13th/18th Royal Hussars
• Limmer's Own – 12th Lancers
• The Lincolnshire Poachers – Lincolnshire Regiment '
• Linseed Lancers – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Lions – The King's Own '
• The Liverpool Blues – 79th Regiment of Foot
• The Liverpool Militia – Irish Guards '
• The 9th London and Lancs – 9th Battalion Devonshire Regiment '
• Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds – 11th Hussars '
• Lord Wellingtons Bodyguard – Northumberland Fusiliers
• Loyal Lincoln Volunteers – 81st Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Lumpers – 1st Life Guards
• The Lumps – 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

  M

• The Macraes – 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• The Maple Leaves – 100th Regiment of Foot
• The Meanee Boys – 22nd Foot '
• The Measurers – Royal Engineers
• The Mediterranean Greys – 50th Foot
• The Micks – Irish Guards '
• The Milestones – 1st Foot
• The Minden Boys – 20th Regiment of Foot later Lancashire Fusiliers
• The Models - 2nd Bn Grenadier Guards
• Monkeys - Royal Military Police
• The Moonrakers – The Wiltshire Regiment '
• The Mounted Micks – 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards '
• The Mudlarks – Royal Engineers
• Murray's Bucks – 46th Regiment of Foot
• The Mutton Lancers – Queen's Regiment

  N

• The Namurs – Royal Irish Regiment '
• The Nanny Goats – The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Night-Jars – 10th Battalion Manchester Regiment '
• Nobody's Own – 20th Hussars '
• The Norfolk Howards – The Norfolk Regiment
• The Nottingham Hosiers – 45th Regiment of Foot – '
• The Notts and Jocks – Sherwood Foresters
• The Nulli Secundus Club – The Coldstream Guards
• The Nut-Crackers – The Buffs

  O

• The Old Agamemnons – 69th Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment
• The Old Bendovers – see Bendovers
• The Old Black Cuffs – 50th Foot – '
• The Old and Bold
• The Old Braggs – 28th Foot
• The Old Bucks – Bedfordshire Regiment '
• The Old Buffs – The Buffs
• The Old Canaries – 11th Hussars
• The Old Dozen – 12th Regiment of Foot later The Suffolk Regiment
• Old Eyes – Grenadier Guards
• The Old Farmers – 5th Dragoon Guards later 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Old Firms – 36th Foot
• Old Five and Threepences – 53rd Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Old Fogs – 87th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Old Hundredth – 100th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Old Iniskillings – Carabiniers
• The Old Immortals – 76th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Old Namurers – see The Namurs
• Old Oil Rags – 2nd Dragoons
• The Old Seven and Sixpennies – 76th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Sixteen – Bedfordshire Regiment
• The Old Stubborns – 45th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
• Old Saucy Seventh – 7th Hussars
• Old Straws – 7th Hussars
• Old Stubborns – 45th Foot
• The Old Toughs – The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Orange Lilies – 35th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
• The Oxford Blues – Household Cavalry –

  P

• Paget's Irregular Horse – 4th Hussars
• Paddy's Blackguards – Royal Irish Regiment
• The Paras – The Parachute Regiment
• The Paschal Lambs – see Kirke's Lambs
• The Patent Safeties – Life Guards
• The Peacemakers – Bedfordshire Regiment '
• The People's Cav Royal Tank Regiment
• Perthshire Grey Breeks – 2nd Battalion The Cameronians
• The Piccadilly Allsorts – London Scottish
• The Piccadilly Butchers – Life Guards
• The Piccadilly Peacocks – Westminster Dragoons
• The Pig and Whistle Light Infantry – Highland Light Infantry
• The Pigs – 76th Foot
• The Pills – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Plymouth Argylls – composite battalion of Royal Marines and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders formed in Malayan Campaign '
• The Poachers – 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment and The Lincolnshire Regiment '
• The Pompadours – 56th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment later 3rd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard – 1st Regiment of Foot, later The Royal Scots '
• The Poona Guards – East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Poona Pets – 109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Pot Hooks – 77th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment
• The Potters – 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment recruited from The Potteries area around Stoke-on-Trent
• The Poultice Wallopers – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Prince of Orange's Own Regiment – 35th Foot
• The Printers – 2nd City of London Rifle Volunteers '
• The Pull-Throughs – 42nd Division '.
• The Pump and Tortoise - 38th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment ''

  Q

• Queen's Last Resort – Queen's Lancashire Regiment '
• Queer Objects On Horseback – Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars '
• Queers On Horseback – Queen's Own Hussars '
• Quick Let's Run – Queen's Lancashire Regiment '
• The Quill Drivers – Royal Army Pay Corps

  R

• The Rag and Oil Company – Royal Army Ordnance Corps '
• The Ragged Brigade – 13th Hussars
• The Ramnuggar Boys – 14th King's Hussars
• Rats After Mouldy Cheese – Royal Army Medical Corps '
• The Ready Reckoners – Highland Regiments
• Really Large Corps – Royal Logistic Corps '
• Reckless Chaps in Trucks – Royal Corps of Transport '
• The Redbreasts – 5th Royal Irish Lancers
• The Redcaps – Royal Military Police '
• The Red Devils – The Parachute Regiment '
• The Red Feathers – 46th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Red Knights – 22nd Regiment of Foot later Cheshire Regiment
• The Red Lancers – 16th Lancers '
• The Regiment – Special Air Service '
• The Rifles ~ cannon foda
• The Ribs - 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards. They were the first Infantry to officially serve on board navy ships as Marines
• The Right of the Line – Royal Horse Artillery '
• Rob All My Comrades – Royal Army Medical Corps '
• Rob All Our Comrades – Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• The Rollickers – 89th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Romulans – Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
• The Rorys – The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• Rough Engineering Made Easy -Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• The Royal Goats – The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Royal Tigers – York and Lancaster Regiment
• Run Away, Someone's Coming – Royal Army Service Corps '
• Rusty Buckles – 2nd Dragoon Guards

  S

• The Sandbags – Grenadier Guards
• The Scarlet Lancers – 16th The Queen's Lancers later 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers – the only British lancer regiment to wear red rather than blue uniforms from 1830 to World War I
• The Sanguinary Sweeps – King's Royal Rifle Corps '
• The Saucy Greens – Worcestershire Regiment '
• The Saucy Pompeys – 56th Foot
• Saucy Sixth – 6th Regiment of Foot later Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Saucy Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• Sauvages d'Ecosse – Black Watch
• Scaly Backs - Royal Signals
• The Shiners – Northumberland Fusiliers – from their high standard of spit and polish
• The Shiny Fourth – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
• The Shiny Seventh – 7th Battalion, London Regiment – being the only red-coated and brass-buttoned battalion in a brigade otherwise uniformed in rifle green with black buttons
• The Shiny Tenth – 10th Royal Hussars
• The Shropshire Gunners – 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – on conversion from a battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, there was a shortage of RA insignia, so the men were ordered to cut the 'KING'S' and 'L.I.' from their shoulder titles, leaving the word 'Shropshire'
• The Skilljngers – Carabiniers
• The Skins
• Skull and Crossbones – 17th Lancers '
• The Sleepy Queens – Queen's Royal Regiment
• Slop Jockeys = The Army Catering Corps
• The Snappers – East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Splashers – The Wiltshire Regiment
• The Sprats – 94th Foot
• The Springers
• The Staffordshire Knot – 80th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
• The Star of the Line – Worcestershire Regiment'
• The Steelbacks
• The Steel Heads – 109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Stickies – The Royal Ulster Rifles
• Stink – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers '
• Stonewallers – 37th Foot
• Strada Reale Highlanders – Gordon Highlanders
• Strawboots
• The Sugar Stick Brigade – Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• The Supple Twelfth – 12th Royal Lancers
• The Surprisers – 46th Regiment of Foot
• The Sussex Sappers – 1st Sussex Engineers
• The Sweeps – 95th Rifles later The Rifle Brigade '

  T

• The Tabs – 15th The King's Hussars later 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• 1st Tangerines – 2nd Foot '
• The Tankies – Royal Tank Regiment specifically, rather than cavalry units equipped with tanks – this differentiates from "tankers" as the US army term for all tank soldiers
• The Tartan Tankies 4th Royal Tank Regiment
• The Tearaways – 49th Foot
• Teenie Weenie Airlines - Army Air Corps
• THEM – Special Air Service, coined by Auld Sapper.
• The Thin Red Line – 93rd Regiment of Foot later The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Three Tens – 30th Foot later East Lancashire Regiment
• The Tigers – 67th Regiment of Foot who amalgamated with 37th Regiment of Foot to form the Hampshire Regiment in 1881 and now Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment '
• The Tin Bellies – 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• Titchburns Own – Carabiniers
• The T'Others – 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Tow Rows – Grenadier Guards
• The Trades Union – 1st King's Dragoon Guards
• The Triple Xs – 30th Regiment of Foot later East Lancashire Regiment
• The Twin Roses – York and Lancaster Regiment*The Two Fours – 44th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Essex Regiment
• The Two Fives – 55th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Border Regiment
• The Two Tens – 20th Regiment of Foot later Lancashire Fusiliers
• The Two Twos – 22nd Regiment of Foot

  U

• The Ups and Downs – 69th Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment – because the number 69 reads the same either way up

  V

• The Vein Openers – 29th Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment
• The Vikings – 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• Virgin Mary's Guard – 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Vulgar Fractions – 16/5th Lancers

  W

• Wardour's Horse – The Welsh Regiment
• The Warwickshire Lads – Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Wellington's Body Guard – 5th Foot
• Wenlock's Horse – East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry '
• The Whisky Blenders – 34th Foot
• The White Stars – 7th Hussars
• The Whitewashers – 61st Foot
• The Wild Indians – 100th Regiment of Foot
• Wolfe's Own – 47th Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Wonkey Donkeys – Berkshire Yeomanry
• The Woofers – Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment'
• Wright's Irregulars – 582nd Moonlight Battery, Royal Artillery

  X

• The XV – 20th Hussars

  Y

• The Young Bucks – 85th Foot
• The Young Buffs – 31st Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• Young Eyes – 7th Hussars
• Young and Livelies – York and Lancaster Regiment