This could go on forever, but at Allan H's suggestion, off the top of my head:
The Grenadier Guards - The Bill Browns, The Old Eyes, The Sandags, The Reindeer Guards.
The Coldstream Guards - The Coldcream Guards (a fairly recent nickname, which seemed to follow on from a particular little scandal in about 1976).
The Scots Guards - The Jocks, The Sweaties.
Royal Scots (the old 1st Foot) - Pontius Pilates Bodyguard, The Fust & The Wust.
The west Surreys - Kirk's Lambs, The Mutton Lancers.
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - The Old & Bold, The Shiners, The Duke Of Wellington's Bodyguard.
The Royal Warwicks - The Saucy Sixth, The Tamgerines.
The Royal Fusiliers - The Elegant Extracts.
The Norfolks - The Holy Boys.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry - The Light Bobs.
The KRRC & The Rifle Brigade - The Black buttoned Bastards.
The HLI - The Pig & Whistle Light Infantry.
9th Royal Scots, - The Dandy Ninth, (circa WWI).
The Gordon Highlanders - The Gay Gordons.
The West Kents - The Dirty Half Hundred.
The Duke of Wellingtons - Duke of Boots.
The Hampshires - The Hamsters (they nicknamed bees "Regimental Flies" because of the yellow & black colouring).
The Parachute Regiment - The Cherry Berets.
The Royal Army Pay Corps - Rape A Pillage Corps.
The Royal Army Medical Corps - Rob All My Comrades, Runa Away Mother's Coming, The Poultice Wallopers, The Mepacrine Lancers.
The Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - Rough Engineering Made Easy.
(Apparently their cap badge of the lightening flash, chained horse & globe represents "Work like a horse at the speed of lightening & always drop a bollock").
The Intelligence Corps - Pansies Resting On Their Laurels.
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Rag And & Oil Company, Shiney Asses, Blanket Stackers (note how the cannon balls provided on their cap badge were always too big for the cannon on the badge).
The Royal Military Police - Redcaps (during WWII there were also "Blue Caps", wearing special insignia & a blue cover to the cap - guardede vulnerable points etc), The Monkeys.
The Royal Army Veterinary Corps - The Horse Doctors.
The Army Service Corps - Ally Sloper's Cavalry.
The Royal Pioneer Corps - The Chunkies.
The Royal Marines - The Mary-Annes, The Margerines, more recently "The Cabbage Heads" (a ferference to the Commandoes green beret).
More recent regiments:
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - The Fuzzies, The Budgies.
The Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment - The Squidgies.
The Royal Corps of Transport - The Yorkies (because of the chocolate bar adverts).
The Royal Logistical Corps - The Loggies.
Right, this is silly - there are literally hundreds to put down, time to get on with the decorating & give somebody else a chance.
How about a formalised reference thread in the library?
The Grenadier Guards - The Bill Browns, The Old Eyes, The Sandags, The Reindeer Guards.
The Coldstream Guards - The Coldcream Guards (a fairly recent nickname, which seemed to follow on from a particular little scandal in about 1976).
The Scots Guards - The Jocks, The Sweaties.
Royal Scots (the old 1st Foot) - Pontius Pilates Bodyguard, The Fust & The Wust.
The west Surreys - Kirk's Lambs, The Mutton Lancers.
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - The Old & Bold, The Shiners, The Duke Of Wellington's Bodyguard.
The Royal Warwicks - The Saucy Sixth, The Tamgerines.
The Royal Fusiliers - The Elegant Extracts.
The Norfolks - The Holy Boys.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry - The Light Bobs.
The KRRC & The Rifle Brigade - The Black buttoned Bastards.
The HLI - The Pig & Whistle Light Infantry.
9th Royal Scots, - The Dandy Ninth, (circa WWI).
The Gordon Highlanders - The Gay Gordons.
The West Kents - The Dirty Half Hundred.
The Duke of Wellingtons - Duke of Boots.
The Hampshires - The Hamsters (they nicknamed bees "Regimental Flies" because of the yellow & black colouring).
The Parachute Regiment - The Cherry Berets.
The Royal Army Pay Corps - Rape A Pillage Corps.
The Royal Army Medical Corps - Rob All My Comrades, Runa Away Mother's Coming, The Poultice Wallopers, The Mepacrine Lancers.
The Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - Rough Engineering Made Easy.
(Apparently their cap badge of the lightening flash, chained horse & globe represents "Work like a horse at the speed of lightening & always drop a bollock").
The Intelligence Corps - Pansies Resting On Their Laurels.
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Rag And & Oil Company, Shiney Asses, Blanket Stackers (note how the cannon balls provided on their cap badge were always too big for the cannon on the badge).
The Royal Military Police - Redcaps (during WWII there were also "Blue Caps", wearing special insignia & a blue cover to the cap - guardede vulnerable points etc), The Monkeys.
The Royal Army Veterinary Corps - The Horse Doctors.
The Army Service Corps - Ally Sloper's Cavalry.
The Royal Pioneer Corps - The Chunkies.
The Royal Marines - The Mary-Annes, The Margerines, more recently "The Cabbage Heads" (a ferference to the Commandoes green beret).
More recent regiments:
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - The Fuzzies, The Budgies.
The Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment - The Squidgies.
The Royal Corps of Transport - The Yorkies (because of the chocolate bar adverts).
The Royal Logistical Corps - The Loggies.
Right, this is silly - there are literally hundreds to put down, time to get on with the decorating & give somebody else a chance.
How about a formalised reference thread in the library?
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