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Sometimes funny, normally rude - the names Regiments have historically and colloquially been known by. Due to amalgamation and disbandment, some no longer exist and, where possible, the names have been applied to their successor formations:
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[edit] Royal Armoured Corps
“The Cheesemongers”
- 1st Life Guards - Dates from 1788 when the regiment was being re-organised. Some commissions were refused because the officers concerned were the sons of merchants and therefore not, “gentlemen.”
“The Oxford Blues”
- The Royal Horse Guards - From the title of their commander (the Earl of Oxford, 1690) and, of course the blue uniform. Subsequently contracted to, “The Blues.”
“The Bird Catchers”
Colloquially:
- Piccadilly Cowboys
- Donkey Wallopers
- Kings REME Haters
“The Welsh Cavalry”
Colloquially:
- Queen's Dancing Girls
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards (the skins) (5th skins)
"The fore skins"
“The Delhi Spearmen”
- 9th (Queen’s) Royal Lancers. From the Indian Mutiny. The cry of retreating mutineers being, “Delhi Bhala Wallah!” See above.
Colloquially:
- Three quarter Prancers;
- 75 Heavy Underwater Artillery
- 3/4 Popular
- Ballroom Dancers
- 912 Recon (They HATE this one)
“The Cherry-pickers”
“The Cherubims”
- A pun on cherry-bums. The chaps wearing tight red breeches.
Colloquially:
- Elephant's Arse
"The Emperor's Chambermaids"
- From the 14th Hussars who captured Joseph Napoleon's carriage at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. The regiment retained a silver chamberpot from this, the further use of which is not specified.
Colloquially:
- Sh*te hawks
"The Saucy Seventh"
- Well, they rather brought this one on themselves. 7th Queen's Own Hussars described themselves thus on a recruiting poster in the early 19th century. Back then, of course, they were referring to their dapper and smart appearance.
Colloquially:
- (QOH) - Queers on Horseback
- The Royal Tank Regiment
- The People's Cavalry
- The Chav Cav
- The Chavalry
- The Council Cav
[edit] Infantry
- The King's Own Scottish Borderers
- Bing Crosbies
- The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
- The Broken Biscuits
- Pontius Pilots Bodyguard
- The Black Watch (The Royal Highland Regiment)
- The sheep sh**gers
- The King's Regiment
- Kingo's
- Theiving Scouse and Manc Gits
- The Parachute Regiment
- Cherry Berries
- Birdsh*t
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles
- Johnny Gurkha
- The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
- Queers, Loonies and Rejects
- Queen's Last Resort
- Quick Lets Run
- Queers, Lesbians and Rapists
- The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
- M4 Rifles
- Right Great Big Wimps
- Alphabety spaghetti
- Royal Green Belt Wearers
- Heebe geebees
- Any Guards Regiment
- Marble Tops
- Wooden Tops
- The Grenadier Guards
- The Regiment - The Bill Browns
- The 1st Battalion - The Dandies
- The 2nd Battalion - The Models (Now Disbanded)
- The 3rd Battalion - The Ribs (Now Disbanded)
- Gobblers
- Dum Dums (as in singing The British Grenadiers to the word 'dum')
- The Coldstream Guards
- Sheep-shaggers.
- The Royal Highland Fusiliers
- Jimmy Jimmy Fcuk Fcuks-Punk Rockers-Weegies
- The Light Infantry
- Arfurs (as in 'alf a cap badge')
- Think Light, Think Shite
- "Oops, wrong house."
- The Royal Green Jackets
- The Black Mafia
- The Falling Plates
- The Green Howards
- Frankies
- The Dingles
- The Green Cowards
- The Royal Anglian Regiment
- Angleirons
- Swedes
- 1st Bn "The Vikings"
- 2nd Bn "The Poachers"
- 3rd Bn "The Pompadours" - now disbanded.
- The Princess Of Wales's Royal Regiment
- Di's Guys
- Camilla's Gorillas
- The Squidgies
- Squidgey's Own
- The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
- The Duke of Boots
- The Dirty Dukes
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- Agile and Suffering
- Argyll and Bolton Wanderers
- Devon and Dorset Light Infantry
- The Armoured Farmers
- Janners
- Bloody Eleventh
- The Swede Bashers
- "Shoot that cow"
- Drunk and Disorderlies
- The Royal Welsh (RW)
- Really Wank
- Rarely welsh
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
- feather heads
[edit] Army Air Corps
- Anti Aviation Corporation
- Anagram - Sorry I Am Crap
- Teeny Weeny Airways
- Smurff Hats
- Blue tac Head
[edit] Combat Support
- Royal Horse Artillery
- Donkey Wallopers
- Royal Arse Hortillery
- The Royal Artillery
- Planks
- Dropshots, Cloudpunchers
- Long range snipers
- Nine-Mile Snipers
- Royal Arselickers
- The Royal Engineers
- Wedgeheads
- The Royal Signals
- Scaley Backs
- Modern variant Scaleys
- Buzz heads
- Bleeps
- The Intelligence Corps
- Snot hats
- Muppets
- IC (as in eh i see, ugh),
- Green Slime
- Sneaky beakies (I hate that term!)
- Backstabbers
- Lack Of(Intelligence)Corps
- Splitters f*ck the boss for promotion Corps,
[edit] Combat Service Support
- The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)
- Royal Engineers Minus Ego
- Royal Engineers Made Easy
- Royal Engineers Minus Educayshun
- Real Engineering Made Easy
- Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually
- Rough Engineering Made Easy
- Arrse bandits
- Rear Ends Made Easy
- Ruin Everything Mainly Engines
- Ruin Every Maiden Eventually
- The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC)
- Right Lovely Crowd
- Right Load of Cobblers
- Rags Lorries & Curries
- Really Large Corps
- Paramilitary wing of Eddie Stobart ‘’(God damn it! Who let the cnut out of the bag)’’
- REME Luggage Carriers
- Rejects Last Chance
- Real Lesbian Corps
- Really Lazy Corps
[edit] Army Medical Services
- Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
- Chancre mechanics
- Linseed Lancers
- "Run away Matron's coming"
- Rather a Mediocre Crowd
- Rob All My Comrades.
- Scablifters
- Pox Doctors
- Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC)
- Gob Docs
- Fang Farriers
- Royal Army Drinking Club
- Royal Army Divorce Corps
- Tooth Fairies
[edit] Adjutant General's Corps
- The Royal Military Police (RMP)
- Monkeys
- Pigs
- Filth
- Meat heads
- Red Caps
- Shït In Bulk (SIB)
- The Adjutant General's Corps (AGC)
- All Girls Corps
- Alf Garnets Commandos
- Paper clip commandos
- Urban Commandos
- Staff and Personnel Support (SPS)
- Special Pen Service
[edit] Misc
- Small Arms School Corps (SASC)
- Sh*t and Shovel Corps
- Thalidomide Corps
- 51 Bde BRT
- Better (than) Regular Troops
- Womens Royal Army Corps (WRAC)
- Lumpy Jumpers
- Wet Round All Crevices
- Weekly Ration of Army C**t
- Warm Round And Cuddly
- Royal Army Service Corps (RASC)
- Run Away, Someone's Coming
- Royal Army Skirt Chasers
- Army Catering Corps (ACC)
- Ah Cannae Cook
- Andy Caps Commandos
- Aldershot Cement Company
- Ah Can't Crap
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC)
- Blanket Stackers
- Duvet technicians (modern army you see)
- Rag and Oil Company
- Recruit Any Old C*nt
- Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RACD)
- Sky Pilots
- God Botherers
- Karma Mechanics
[edit] Non-Army
- The Royal Marines
- Bootnecks
- Lobsters
- Cabbage Heads
- Royal (amongst themselves)
- The Green Death
- Used boat salesmen
- RAF Regiment
- Rockapes
- Pebble Monkeys
- The Short Range Desert Group
- Bunch of Walty Cunts
[edit] UOTCs
- University of London OTC (ULOTC)
- Usually Learnt Off The Cuff
- Bristol University Officer Training Corps
- Better Undergraduates Offer Their Competence
- "Benders. Unusually Obtuse Teenage Cretins"
- Exeter University OTC (EUOTC)
- Elite Unit Of The Commandos [yeah right]
- Excited Undergraduates Opt for Transvestite Cocks
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