List of nicknames of British Army regiments

Nicknames of regiments and other units of the British Army.

• The Blacks - 7th Dragoon Guards
• The Blues - Royal Horse Guards
• The Buffs - 3rd Regiment of Foot
• The Devil's Own - The Connaught Rangers
• The Die Hards - 57th Regiment of Foot (later Middlesex Regiment)
• The Dirty Shirts - Royal Munster Fusiliers
• The Donkey Wallopers - Household Cavalry
• The Excellers - South Lancashire Regiment
• The Faughs - The Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Forty-Tens - The 2nd Battalion, The Leinster Regiment.
• The Green Dragoons - 13th Hussars
• The Green Howards - Royal Berkshire Regiment
• The Guards of the Line - Worcestershire Regiment
• The Havercake Lads - Duke of Wellington's Regiment previously 1st Yorkshire West Riding Regiment (33rd 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 Mutton Lancers - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
• The Old Namurers - The Royal Irish Regiment
• The Pompadours - 2nd Battallion, Royal Anglian Regiment
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard - The Royal Scots
• The Red Caps - Royal Military Police
• The Red Feathers - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Rifles - Royal Irish Rifles
• The Skins - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
• The Slashers - The Glosters (Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment)
• The Two Fours - The Essex Regiment
• The Ups and Downs - The Welsh Regiment
• The Yeller Bellies - Lincolnshire Regiment