Military Insignia

Army Nicknames

British Army Regimental Nicknames

A nickname is a short, clever, or even derogatory substitute name for a person, organization or even a thing. Example: Rifle is to 'bondook' or 'Gat' - as Tea is to 'Cha.'

'Bondook' and 'Cha' originate from India when the British Army was a based there, whereas 'gat' is a nickname for a gangster's weapon.

All three nicknames continue to be used on a daily basis by all British Military personnel today.

Detailed below is a large selection of Army, Navy and air Force nicknames of which some Army Regiments no longer exist as a result of Government defense cuts over the last ten years or so, but are still relevant if purely for historical purposes.

The Royal Armoured Corps

Household Cavalry Regiment

Piccadilly Cowboys

Donkey Wallopers

1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards

The Queen's Dancing Girls

9th /12th Royal Lancers

Three quarter Prancers;

The Ballroom Dancers

11th Hussars

Cherrypickers

The Queen’s Royal Lancers

The Boneheads

The king's Royal Hussars

The Sh*te hawks

The Queens Own Hussars

Queers on Horseback

The Royal Tank Regiment

The Chav Cav

The Cavalry

The People's Tank Regiments

The Infantry

The king’s Own Scottish Borderers

The Bing Crosbies

The Royal Scots

The Broken Biscuits

Pontius Pilots Bodyguard

The Black Watch (Highland Regiment)

The sheep sh**gers

The King's Regiment

King's Theiving Scouse and Manc Gits

The Parachute Regiment

Cherry Berries

Birdsh*t

The Royal Gurka Regiment

Johnny Gurkha

The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment

Queers, Loonies and Rejects

Queen's Last Resort

Queers, Lesbians and Rapists

The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire light Infantry

M4 Rifles

Alphabety spaghetti

Heebe geebees

The Guards Regiments in General

Wooden tops / Marble Tops

The Grenadier Guards

Gobblers

The Coldstream Guards

The Sheep-shaggers.

The Light Infantry

Think Light, Think Shite

"Oops, wrong house."

The Royal Green Jackets

The Black Mafia

The Falling Plates

The Green Howards

Frankies

The Dingles

The Royal Anglians

The angleirons

1st Bn "The Vikings"

2nd Bn "The Poachers"

3rd Bn "The Pompadours"

The Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment

Di's Guys

Camilla's Gorillas

The Squidgies

The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment

The Duke of Boots

The Dirty Dukes

The Agyll and Sutherland highlanders

Argyll and Bolton Wanderers

The Devon and Dorset Light Infantry

The Armoured Farmers

The Swede Bashers

The Royal Welsh

Really Wank Rarely welsh

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Feather heads

Combat Support

The Royal Horse Artillery

Donkey Wallopers

Royal Arse Hortillery

The Royal Artillery

Planks Long range snipers

Nine-Mile Snipers

The Royal Engineers

Wedgeheads

The Royal Signals

Scaley backs

Buzz heads

Bleeps

The Royal Intelligence Corps

Snot hats

Muppets

Green Slime

Sneaky beakies!

Combat Service Support

The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)

Ruin Everything Mechanical Eventually

Rough Engineering Made Easy

Arse bandits

Ruin Every Maiden Eventually

The Royal logistic Corps (RLC)

Right Lovely Crowd

Right Load of Cobblers

Rags Lorries & Curries

Really Large Corps

Army Medical Services

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)

Linseed Lancers

"Run away Matron's coming"

Rather a Mediocre Crowd

Scablifters

Pox Doctors

Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC)

Gob Docs

Fang Farriers

Royal Army Drinking Club

Adjutant General's Corps

The Royal Military Police (RMP)

Monkeys

Pigs

Red Caps

The Adjutant General's Corps (AGC)

All Girls Corps

Alf Garnets Commandos

Paper clip commandos

Staff and Personnel Support(SPS)

Special Pen Service

Misc Small Arms School Corps(SASC)

Sh*t and Shovel Corps

Thalidomide Corps

Womens Royal Army Corps(WRAC)

Lumpy Jumpers

Wet Round All Crevices

Royal Army Service Corps(RASC)

Run Away, Someone's Coming

Army Catering Corps(ACC)

Andy Caps Commandos

Aldershot Cement Company

Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC)

Blanket Stackers

Rag and Oil Company

Royal Army Chaplains' Department(RACD)

Sky Pilots

God Botherers

The Royal Navy

The Royal Marines

Bootnecks Lobsters

Cabbage Heads

The Green Death

Used boat salesmen

The Royal Airforce

RAF Regiment

Rockapes

Pebble Monkeys

The Short Range Desert Group