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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).

1

• 1st Invalids - 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment (first raised as the Regiment of Invalids, in 1688)

A

• Agile and Bolton Wanderers - Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• Ally Sloper's Cavalry – Army Service Corps (humorous back-acronym; Ally Sloper was a popular pre-WWI cartoon character drawn by W.F. Thomas in a weekly comic strip; in contemporary slang an 'Alley Sloper' was a rent-dodger, who 'sloped off down the alley' when the rent-collector called)
• The Angle-irons - Royal Anglian Regiment(humorous malapropism)
• The Armoured Farmers - 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (raised in the West Country)

B

• The Back Numbers (also The Back Badgers) - Gloucestershire Regiment (allowed to wear a regimental badge on the back of the hat, after the rear rank faced about to drive off French cavalry at the Battle of Alexandria (1801))
• The Back Flash - Royal Welch Fusiliers(the last regiment to give up the queue or pigtail, retained the ribbons on the back of the collar)
• Bakers Light Bobs - 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• The Bays - 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
• The Beavers - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment (refers to the regiment's origin in Canada, and its first regimental badge)
• The Bendovers - 96th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bengal Tigers - Leicestershire Regiment(In 1825 the regiment was granted the badge of a "royal tiger" to recall their long service in India)
• The Bill Browns - 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards
• The Biscuit Boys - 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
• The Bird Catchers - 1st (Royal) Dragoons
• The Black Cuffs - Northamptonshire Regiment
• The Black Horse - 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
• The Black Knots - North Staffordshire Regiment (the regimental badge was a Stafford knot)
• The Black Mafia - Royal Green Jackets(number of former Greenjacket officers promoted to high rank)
• Blayney's Bloodhounds – 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot (from their 'unerring certainty and untiring perseverance in hunting down the Irish rebels in 1798, when the corps was commanded by Lord Blayney')
• The Bleeders - Somerset Light Infantry
• The Blind Half Hundred - 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later Royal West Kent Regiment (suffered badly from ophthalmia during the Egyptian Campaign of 1801.)
• The Bloodsuckers - 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment
• The Bloody Eleventh - 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot, later The Devonshire Regiment (from the heavy casualties suffered at the Battle of Salamanca)
• The Blue Caps - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers (originally part of the British East India Company's Madras Presidency Army, whose units wore blue rather than black headgear)
• The Blues - Royal Horse Guards (only British heavy cavalry regiment to wear blue rather than red uniforms)
• Bob's Own - Irish Guards (refers to Field Marshal Lord Roberts, the first Colonel of the regiment)
• The Botherers - King's Own Scottish Borderers (humorous malapropism)
• The Brickdusts - 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Budgies - the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers(from the hackle worn in the beret)
• The Buttermilks - 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

C

• The Cattle Reivers - Border Regiment
• Calvert's Entire - West Yorkshire Regiment
• The Cameronians - 1st Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
• The Carbs - Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Cat and Cabbage - The York and Lancaster Regiment (from the regimental badge, which was a royal lion atop a stylised Tudor Rose)
• The Celestials - 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Chainy 10th - 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Cheeses - 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• The Cheesemongers - Household Cavalry
• The Cauliflowers 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (from the regimental badge, which was a stylised Red Rose of Lancaster)
• The Centipedes - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons (as the regiment was then named) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain)
• The Cherubims - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (originally the "Cherrybums", from the crimson overall trousers adopted when Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha became the Honorary Colonel in Chief)
• The Cloudpunchers - Air Defence regiments of the Royal Artillery
• The Coal Heavers - Grenadier Guards
• The Coldstreamers - Coldstream Guards
• The Colonials - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Comical Chemical Corporals – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (responsible for poison gas and flame attacks; men with knowledge of chemistry were immediately promoted to corporal)
• The Crusaders - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment

D

• The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later the Queen's Royal Lancers (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
• The Delhi Spearman - 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
• The Devil's Own - 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) later 1st Battalion The Connaught Rangers
• The Devils Royals - 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Diehards - 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment (from the Battle of Albuera during the Peninsular War, when Colonel William Inglis urged the decimated regiment to "die hard")
• The Dirty Half Hundred - 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
• The Dirty Shirts - 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) later 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (from an occasion when the regiment stormed a fort in India; as a consequence their shirts were covered in blood, sweat and dirt)
• The Doc's - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Double X - Lancashire Fusiliers (from the regimental badge which, as the 20th Regiment of Foot, carried "XX", twenty in roman numerals)
• The Drogheda Light Horse - 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
• The Duke of Boots - The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment
• The Dumpies - 19th Royal Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own) (originally raised for the army of the British East India Company, from undersized riders who would not overload the lighter, locally-procured horses.)

E

• Earl of Mar's Grey Breeks - Royal Scots Fusiliers (from their first colonel, Charles Erskine, 21st Earl of Mar, and the grey breeches of their uniform)
• The Elegant Extracts - 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments.)
• Eliott's Light Horse - 15th The King's Hussars
• The Emperor's Chambermaids - 14th King's Hussars (from an incident during the Battle of Vitoria during the Peninsular War, when the regiment captured a silver chamberpot belonging to Joseph Bonaparte, brother of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte)
• England's Northern Cavalry - The Light Dragoons
• The Ever-Sworded - 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment
• The Excellers - 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment(from the regimental badge; 40 in roman numberals is "XL")
• The Evergreens - 13th Hussars

F

• The Faithful Durhams - Durham Light Infantry (from their motto, 'Faithful')
• Faugh-a-Ballagh Boys, or The Faughs - 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (from their Gaelic war cry 'Faugh a Ballagh' ('Clear the Way') during the Peninsular War.
• The Fighting Fifth - 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
• The Fighting Fortieth - 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment
• The Fighting Ninth - 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The Fighting Fifteenth - 15th The King's Hussars
• The First and the Last - 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
• Fitch's Grenadiers - The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Flamers - 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Forty Twas - 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot later Black Watch
• The Forty-Tens - 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (from an incident in India where the men were 'numbering', or calling out their position in the ranks: after they reached 'forty-nine' the next man called out 'forty-ten'.)

G

• The Garvies - Connaught Rangers
• The Gay Gordons - Gordon Highlanders(from the name of a popular dance)
• The Geraniums - 13th Hussars
• The Glasgow Greys - 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• The Glesca Keelies - 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry(Regiment was mostly recruited in Glasgow ("Glesca"), allegedly from local ruffians ("Keelies").
• The Glorious Glosters - The Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Grasshoppers - 95th (Rifle) Regiment of Foot (reference to rifle green colour of uniforms)
• The Green Dragoons - 13th Hussars
• The Green Howards - 19th (1st North Riding of Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot later Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (So named in 1744, to distinguish them from Howard's Buffs by facing colour of uniform; both regiments had colonels named Howard at the time)
• The Green Horse - 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
• The Green Jackets - 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps and The Rifle Brigade (in the Napoleonic Wars, both were specialised corps of skirmishers, armed with rifles and wearing rifle green uniforms rather than the standard red coat)
• The Green Linnets - 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot later The Dorsetshire Regiment
• The Grey Lancers - 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)(from French-grey colour of regimental facings)
• Guise's Geese - Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• The Gurkhas - Royal Gurkha Rifles

H

• The Hampshire Tigers - Hampshire Regiment
• The Hanoverian White Horse - Royal Fusiliers
• The Havercake Lads - 33rd Regiment of Foot later Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• Hell's Last Issue - the Highland Light Infantry(humorous back-acronym)
• The Hindoostan Regiment - 76th Foot
• The Holy Boys - 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment
• The Horse Marines - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
• Howard's Greens - South Wales Borderers

I

• The Iron Regiment - The Royal Sussex Regiment
• Irish Giants - The Royal Irish Rifles
• The Irish Lancer - 5th Royal Irish Lancers

J

• Jacks – Military Police during WWI
• The Jaeger - 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps (when first formed, included large numbers of German and German-speaking Swiss Jägers (light infantry))
• The Jocks - Scots Guards (mildly derogatory name for Scotsmen)
• The Judaeans – 38th–42nd Battalions Royal Fusiliers (the battalions formed the Jewish Brigade)

K

• The Kaiser's Own - 60th (Royal American) Regiment later Kings Royal Rifle Corps
• King's Men - 78th Highlanders later 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• Kingsley's Stand - Lancashire Fusiliers
• Kirke's Lambs - The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
• Kokky-Olly Birds - The King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Koylis - The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• The Kids - (Scots Guards)- name given to the Third Regiment of Foot Guards when reaching King William's Guards camp in 1686

L

• The Lacedemonians - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Lancashire Lads - 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Leather Hats - 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot later The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
• Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (commanded for several years in the early nineteenth century by James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan)
• Lord Wellingtons Bodyguard - Northumberland Fusiliers
• Loyal Lincoln Volunteers - 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Light Bobs - Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry later The Light Infantry
• Lightning Conductors - Cheshire Regiment( a detachment of the 2nd Battalion was struck by lightning in 1899)
• The Lillywhites - Leicestershire Regiment and East Lancashire Regiment and 109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Lillywhite Seventh - 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• The Lions - The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
• Linseed Lancers – Royal Army Medical Corps
• The Lumps - 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

M

• The Macraes - 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
• The Micks – Irish Guards (the term is not regarded as derogatory by the regiment)
• The Moonrakers - The Wiltshire Regiment
• The Mounted Micks - 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards (mildly derogatory name for Irishmen)
• The Minden Boys - 20th Regiment of Foot later Lancashire Fusiliers
• Murray's Bucks - 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• The Lilywhites - 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO)

N

• The Namurs - Royal Irish Regiment (from their battle honour of 'Namur' gained in 1695, the first such honour granted to a regiment of the British Army)
• The Nanny Goats - The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Norfolk Howards - The Norfolk Regiment
• Nobody's Own - 20th Hussars (for a time, were almost the only British cavalry regiment not to have a prestigious honorary colonel with his or her title in the regimental name)

O

• The Old Agamemnons - 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment
• The Old and Bold - Northumberland Fusiliers and West Yorkshire Regiment and Worcestershire Regiment
• The Old Buffs - The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
• The Old Bucks - Bedfordshire Regiment (from 1782 to 1809, were the senior regiment raised in Buckinghamshire)
• The Old Canaries - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
• The Old Dozen - 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot later The Suffolk Regiment
• Old Eyes - Grenadier Guards
• The Old Farmers - 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards later 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
• The Old Fogs - 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• Old Five and Threepences - 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry
• The Old Hundredth - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Old Iniskillings - Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Old Immortals - 76th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment
• The Old Namurers – see The Namurs
• The Old Sixteen - Bedfordshire Regiment
• The Old Stubborns - 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters
• The Old Seven and Sixpennies - 76th Regiment of Foot
• The Old Toughs - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• The Orange Lilies - 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
• The Oxford Blues - Household Cavalry

P

• The Paras - The Parachute Regiment
• Paddy's Blackguards - Royal Irish Regiment
• The Peacemakers - Bedfordshire Regiment (The regiment had no battle honours until 1882, when it was belatedly given those for the War of the Spanish Succession 170 years earlier; the regimental motto was misquoted as 'Thou Shalt not Kill')
• Perthshire Grey Breeks - 2nd Battalion The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
• The Plymouth Argylls – composite battalion of Royal Marines and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders formed in Malayan Campaign (Plymouth is one of the Marines' home bases, with Plymouth Argyle FC as its local football team)
• The Poachers - 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment and The Lincolnshire Regiment
• The Pompadours - 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment later 3rd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• The Poona Guards - East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Poona Pets - 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard - 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, later The Royal Scots (they were the oldest regiment in the British Army and humourously claimed to date back to the time of Christ; in fact they were founded in 1633)
• The Pot Hooks - 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment
• The Pump and Tortoise - 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment

Q

• Queer Objects On Horseback - Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (humorous back-acronym)
• Queers On Horseback - Queen's Own Hussars (humorous back-acronym)

R

• The Ragged Brigade - 13th Hussars
• The Ramnuggar Boys - 14th King's Hussars (from the Battle of Ramnagar in 1849)'
• Rats After Mouldy Cheese – Royal Army Medical Corps (humorous back-acronym)
• The Redbreasts - 5th Royal Irish Lancers
• The Redcaps – Royal Military Police (from their distinctive headgear)
• The Red Devils - The Parachute Regiment (Refers to either the use of Tunisian Red mud as camouflage or the red berets worn)
• The Red Feathers - 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Red Knights - 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot later Cheshire Regiment
• Rob All My Comrades – Royal Army Medical Corps (derogatory back-acronym from the belief that medical personnel took advantage of their position to steal from casualties)
• The Rollickers - 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
• The Rorys - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Royal Goats - The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• The Royal Tigers - York and Lancaster Regiment
• Run Away, Someone's Coming – Royal Army Service Corps (humorous back-acronym)
• Rusty Buckles - 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

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 Saucy Greens - Worcestershire Regiment(from the duck green facing colour of their uniform)
• Saucy Sixth - 6th Regiment of Foot later Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• The Shiners - Northumberland Fusiliers
• The Shiny Seventh – 7th (City of London) 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
• Saucy Seventh - 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• The Skilljngers - Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Skins

– 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons

– Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

• The Snappers - East Yorkshire Regiment
• The Splashers - The Wiltshire Regiment
• The Springers - 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot and The Lincolnshire Regiment and The Wiltshire Regiment
• The Staffordshire Knot - 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
• The Star of the Line - Worcestershire Regiment(from the elongated star forming part of the regimental badge)
• The Steelbacks

- 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment

– The Northamptonshire Regiment

• The Steel Heads - 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
• The Stickies - The Royal Ulster Rifles (83rd & 86th)
• Stink – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (responsible for poison gas and flame attacks)
• The Supple Twelfth - 12th Royal Lancers
• The Surprisers - 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
• The Sweeps - 95th Rifles later The Rifle Brigade

T

• The Tabs - 15th The King's Hussars later 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• The Thin Red Line - 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot later The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• The Tigers - 37/67th of Foot The Royal Hampshire Regiment and 4th Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment
• The Tigers - Royal Leicestershire Regiment
• The Tin Bellies - 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards
• Titchburns Own - Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
• The Trades Union - 1st King's Dragoon Guards
• The Triple Xs - East Lancashire Regiment
• The Two Fours - 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Essex Regiment
• The Two Fives - 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Border Regiment
• The Two Tens - - Lancashire Fusiliers
• The Two Twos - Cheshire Regiment
• The Three Tens - East Lancashire Regiment
• The Twin Roses - York and Lancaster Regiment

U

• The Ups and Downs - 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment

V

• The Vein Openers - 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot later Worcestershire Regiment(refers to involvement of the 29th in the Boston Massacre)
• The Vikings - 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment

W

• Wardour's Horse - The Welsh Regiment
• The Warwickshire Lads - Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Wolfe's Own - 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• The Wonkey Donkeys - Berkshire Yeomanry
• The Woofers - Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment(pronunciation of WFR)

X

• The XV - 20th Hussars

Y

• The Young Buffs - 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment
• Young and Livelies - York and Lancaster Regiment

See also

• Nicknames of U.S. Army divisions
• Regimental nicknames of the Canadian Forces

References

• Maj R. Money Barnes, Military Uniforms of Britain and the Empire, London: Seeley Service, 1960/Sphere 1972.
• Maj R. Money Barnes, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London: Seeley Service, 1956/Sphere 1972.
• Rev E. Cobham Brewer, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870 (and many subsequent editions).
• Beevor, Antony (1991). Inside the British Army. Corgi Books. ISBN 0-552-13818-5. 
• Chant, Christopher (1988). The Handbook of British Regiments. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00241-9. 
• Field-Marshal His Majesty the King (George V of the United Kingdom) (1916). Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army. Gale & Polden Ltd. London. 
• Paul Hinckley, Battlefield Colloquialisms of the Great War (WW1), http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/~davidt/z_ww1_slang/index_bak.htm.
• N.B. Leslie, The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1695–1914, London: Leo Cooper, 1970.
• Donald Richter, Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I, Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1992, ISBN 0 7006 0544 4.