Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of the British Army

by Anonymous

Nickname: "Wardour's Horse."

(Depot, Perth.)

(Record Office, Perth.)

The Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."

"Guadaloupe, 1759," "Martinique, 1762," "Havannah," "North America, 1763-64," "Mangalore," "Mysore," "Seringapatam," "Corunna," "Busaco," "Fuentes d'Onor," "Pyrenees," "Nivelle," "Nive," "Orthes," "Toulouse," "Peninsula," "Waterloo," "South Africa, 1846-7, 1851-2-3," "Alma," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow," "Ashantee, 1873-4," "Tel-el-Kebir," "Egypt, 1882, 1884," "Kirbekan," "Nile, 1884-85," "Paardeberg," "South Africa, 1899-1902."

Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (No one provokes me with impunity).

Uniform, Scarlet.

Facings, Blue.