APPENDIX III
LIST OF BADGES, MOTTOES, AND GENERAL NICKNAMES OF THE ARMY.
| Name. | Badge. | Motto. | Nicknames. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Life Guards | The Royal Arms | “Cheeses,” “Piccadilly | |
| 2nd Life Guards | ” | Butchers,” “The Tin Bellies,” “Patent Safeties” | |
| Royal Horse Guards | ” | “Blue Guards,” “Blues,” “Oxford Blues” | |
| 1st Dragoon Guards | Royal Cipher within Garter | “K. D. G.’s,” “The Trades Union” | |
| 2nd ” | ” | “The Bays,” “The Rusty Buckles,”[86] “The 2nd Horse” | |
| 3rd ” | Plume of Prince of Wales within Garter crowned. Red Dragon and Rising Sun | “The Old Canaries” | |
| 4th ” | Irish Harp within Garter crowned. Harp and Crown and Star of St. Patrick | “Quis separabit?”[87] | “The Blue Horse,” “Godfrey’s Horse,” “The Royal Irish” |
| 5th ” | V. D. G. in Garter crowned | “Vestigia nulla retrorsum” | “The Green Horse,” “Green Dragoon Guards,” “Cog’s Horse” |
| 6th ” | Crossed Carbines within a Garter crowned | “The Carbs,” “Tichborne’s Own,” “9th Horse” | |
| 7th ” | 7. D. G. in Garter crowned | “The Black Horse,” “The Blacks,” “Virgin Mary’s Guard,” “Strawboots” | |
| 1st Dragoons | Crest of England within Garter crowned, and Eagle | “Spectamur agendo” | |
| 2nd ” | Thistle within a Garter crowned. Eagle with “Waterloo” | “Second to None” and “Nemo me impune lacessit” | “Scots Greys,” “Old Greys,” “Grey Dragoons,” “Scots Regiment of White Horses,” “Bubbly Jocks” |
| 3rd Hussars | White Horse within Garter crowned | “Nec aspera terrent” | “Lord Adam Gordon’s Life Guards,” “Bland’s Dragoons” |
| 4th ” | V. R. within Garter crowned | “Paget’s Irregular Horse” | |
| 5th Lancers | V. R. within Garter crowned. Harp and Crown | “Quis separabit” | “Royal Irish,” “The Daily Advertisers,” “The Red Breasts” |
| 6th Dragoons | Castle of Inniskilling, with the S. George’s colours within Garter crowned | “The Black Dragoons,” “The Old Inniskillings,” “The Skillingers” | |
| 7th Hussars | V. R. within Garter crowned | “Old Straws,” “Black Horse,” “Young Eyes,” “Strawboots,” “The Lilywhite Seventh,” “The Old Saucy Seventh” | |
| 8th ” | Harp within Garter crowned. Harp crowned | “Pristinæ virtutis memores” | “St. George’s,” “The Cross-Belts,” “The Dirty 8th,”[88] “The King’s” |
| 9th Lancers | V. R. within Garter crowned | “Wynne’s Dragoons,” “The Delhi Spearmen,” “The Queen’s” | |
| 10th Hussars | Prince of Wales’s Plume within Garter crowned. The Prince of Wales’s Plume. The Red Dragon. The Rising Sun | “Baker’s LightBobs,” “The Chainey Tenth,” “Don’t Dance Tenth”[89] | |
| 11th ” | Sphinx in Garter crowned. Sphinx with “Egypt.” Prince Consort’s Crest | “Treu und fest” | “The Cherry Pickers,” “The Cherubims” |
| 12th Lancers | Prince of Wales’ Plume in Garter crowned. Red Dragon. Rising Sun. Prince of Wales’s Plume. Sphinx and “Egypt” | “The Supple Twelfth” | |
| 13th Hussars | V. R. in Garter crowned | “Viret in æternum” | “The Green Dragoons,” “The Ragged Brigade,” “The Evergreens,” “The Geraniums,” “Gardiner’s Dragoons,” “Great Runaway Prestonpans”[88] |
| 14th ” | Royal Crest in Garter crowned. Prussian Eagle | “Hamilton’s Runaways,” “Ramnuggur Boys,” “The Emperor’s Chamber maids” | |
| 15th ” | Royal Crest in Garter crowned | “Merebimur” | “Fighting Fifteenth,” “Elliot’s Light Horse” |
| 16th Lancers | V. R. within Garter crowned | “Aut cursu aut cominus armis” | “The Red Lancers,” “The Queen’s” |
| 17th Lancers | Skull and Cross bones within a Garter crowned | Death’s Head “or Glory” | “Death or Glory Boys,” “Skull and Cross Bones,” “Bingham’s Dandies” |
| 18th Hussars | V. R. within Garter crowned | “Pro Rege, pro Lege, pro Patria conamur” | “Drogheda Light Horse” |
| 19th ” | V. R. within Garter crowned. Elephant | “The Dumpies” | |
| 20th Hussars | V. R. within Garter crowned | “The Dumpies” | |
| 21st Hussars | ” | ” | |
| Royal Artillery | Royal Arms and Supporters. A field gun with rammer | “Ubique.” “Quo fas et gloria ucunt” | “The Gunners” |
| Royal Engineers | Royal Arms and Supporters | ” | “The Mudlarks,” “The Sappers” |
| Grenadier Guards | A grenade. Also, 1st battalion, the Crown; 2nd battalion, Royal Cipher crowned; 3rd battalion, same as 2nd, but with a pile wavy | “Sandbags,” “Coal-heavers,” “Old Eyes,” “Bermuda Exiles” | |
| Coldstream Guards | The Star of the Garter, for 1st battalion; 2nd battalion, Eight-pointed Star within Garter crowned | “Nulli Secundus Club,” “Coldstreamers” | |
| Scots Guards | The Thistle. Sphinx with “Egypt.” 1st battalion, Royal Arms of Scotland crowned; 2nd battalion, Union Badge crowned | “En! Ferus Hostis.” “Unita Fortior” | “The Jocks” |
| Royal Scots (1st) | V.R. within St. Andrew’s Collar crowned. The Star of the Thistle. The Sphinx with “Egypt” | “Douglas’s Ecossais,” “Pontius Pilate’s Bodyguard” | |
| The Queen’s (2nd) | The Paschal Lamb. The Royal Cipher within the Garter. The Sphinx with “Egypt” | “Pristina virtutis memor.” “Vel exuviæ triumphant” | “Kirke’s Lambs,” “The Sleepy Queen’s,” “1st Tangerines” |
| The Buffs (3rd) | Rose and Crown. Dragon. White Horse of Kent | “Veteri frondescit honore” | “Buff Howards,” “Old Buffs,” “The Nutcrackers” |
| The King’s Own (4th) | V.R. within the Garter. The Lion. Rose and Crown | “Resurrectionists,” “Barrel’s Blues,” “The Lions” | |
| Northumberland Fusiliers (5th) | St. George and the Dragon on a grenade. St. George and Dragon alone. Rose and Crown | “Quo fata vocant” | “The Shiners,” “The Old Bold Fifth,” “The Fighting Fifth,” “Lord Wellington’s Bodyguard,” “The Old and Bold” |
| Royal Warwick (6th) | Bear and Ragged Staff. Antelope. Rose and Crown | “Guise’s Geese,” “The Warwickshire Lads,” “The Saucy Sixth” | |
| Royal Fusiliers (7th) | The united Red and White Rose within the Garter crowned.[90] White Horse | “Nec aspera terrent” | “Hanoverian White Horse,” “Elegant Extracts” |
| The King’s (8th) | White Horse within the Garter crowned. V.R. within the Garter crowned. Sphinx with “Egypt” | “Nec aspera terrent” | “King’s Hanoverian White Horse” |
| Norfolk (9th) | Britannia over a castle with three towers | “Holy Boys,” “Fighting Ninth,” “Norfolk Howards”[91] | |
| Lincolnshire (10th) | Sphinx and “Egypt” | “The Springers,” “The Lincolnshire Poachers” | |
| Devonshire (11th) | Castle of Exeter | “Semper fidelis” | “The Bloody Eleventh,” “One and All” |
| Suffolk (12th) | Castle and Key with “Gibraltar” | “Montis insignia Calpe” | “Old Dozen,” “The Minden Boys” |
| Somersetshire Light Infantry (13th) | Mural Crown with “Jellalabad,” over a Bugle stringed with a Sphinx and “Egypt.” The Sphinx and “Egypt.” | “Yellow-banded Robbers,” “Bleeders,” “Jellalabad Heroes,” “The Illustrious Garrison.” (Sergeants wear sash on left shoulder) | |
| West Yorkshire (14th) | Prince of Wales’s Plume. White Horse. Royal Tiger | “Nec aspera terrent” | “The Old and Bold,” “Calvert’s Entire,” “The Powo’s”[91] |
| East Yorkshire (15th) | White Rose in an eight-pointed Star | “The Snappers,” “The Poona Guards.” (One of Wolfe’s Regiments) | |
| Bedfordshire (16th) | The United Red and White Rose | “The Old Bucks,” “The Peacemakers,” “The Feather Beds”[92] | |
| Leicestershire (17th) | Royal Tiger with “Hindostan” | “The Lilywhites,” “The Bengal Tigers,” “The Tigers,” “The Green Tigers” | |
| Royal Irish (18th) | Harp crowned with Shamrock. The Dragon with “China.” Sphinx with “Egypt.” The Lion of Nassau on shield | “Virtutis Namurcensii præmium” | “The Namurs” |
| Yorkshire Regiment (19th) | White Rose. Princess of Wales’s Cipher crowned | “Green Howards,” “Howard’s Garbage,” “Howard’s Greens” | |
| Lancashire Fusiliers (20th) | Sphinx with “Egypt.” The Rose. Sphinx, and “Egypt” laurelled on a grenade | “Two Tens,” “Minden Boys,” “Kingsley’s Stand” | |
| Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st) | St. Andrew with Thistle wreath. The Royal Arms on a grenade. The Thistle. V.R. crowned | “Nemo me impune lacessit” | “Earl of Mar’s Greybreeks” |
| Cheshire Regiment (22nd) | The united Red and White Rose | “The Two Twos,” “The Red Knights” | |
| Royal Welsh Fusiliers (23rd) | Rising Sun. Red Dragon. Prince of Wales’s Plume on grenade. White Horse. Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Ich Dien.” “Nec aspera terrent” | “Nanny Goats,” “Royal Goats” |
| South Wales Borderers (24th) | Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Howard’s Greens,” “Bengal Tigers” | |
| King’s Own Scottish Borderers (25th) | White Horse. Castle of Edinburgh. The Royal Crest. The Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Nec aspera terrent.” “Nisi Dominus frustra.” “In veritatis religionis confido” | “Leven’s Regiment,” “The Edinburgh Regiment,” “The Borderers,” “Sevens,” “The Brothers” |
| Cameronians (26th and 90th) | Sphinx and “Egypt,” Dragon and “China,” Bugle within a Thistle wreath crowned | (2nd battalion) “The Greybreeks,” “The Cameronians” | |
| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (27th and 108th) | Castle of Inniskilling with St. George’s colours on a grenade. The Sphinx and “Egypt.” White Horse | “Nec aspera terrent” | “The Lamps,” “The Old Muster,” “Inniskillings.” |
| Gloucestershire (28th and 61st) | Sphinx and “Egypt” (worn back and front) | “Old Braggs,” “The Slashers” “The Right Abouts,”[93] (2nd battalion) “Whitewashers” | |
| Worcestershire (29th and 36th) | The united Red and White Rose | “Firm” | “The Vein Openers,” “The Old and Bold,” “Star of the Line,” (2nd battalion) “The Saucy Greens” |
| East Lancashire (30th and 59th) | Sphinx and “Egypt.” The Rose | “Triple X,” “The Three Tens,” (2nd battalion) “The Lilywhites” | |
| East Surrey (31st and 70th) | United Red and White Rose | “Young Buffs,” “Glasgow Greys,” “Murray’s Bucks” | |
| Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (32nd and 46th) | Red and White Rose. Bugle crowned | “The Docs,” “The Surprisers,” (2nd battalion) “The Red Feathers,” “The Lacedemonians” | |
| West Riding (33rd and 76th) | Elephant with “Hindostan” Crest of Duke of Wellington | “Virtutis fortuna comes” | “Havercake Lads,” “Duke of Wellington’s Own,” (2nd battalion) “The Immortals,” “The Pigs,” “The Old Seven and Sixpennies” |
| Border (34th and 55th) | Laurel Wreath. Dragon with “China” | (2nd battalion) “The Two Fives” | |
| Royal Sussex (35th and 107th) | United Red and White Rose | Belfast Regiment, “The Orange Lilies” | |
| Hampshire (37th and 67th) | Royal Tiger in Laurel Wreath with “India” | (2nd battalion) “Royal Tigers” | |
| South Staffordshire (38th and 81st) | Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Pump and Tortoise,” (2nd battalion) “Staffordshire Knots” | |
| Dorsetshire (39th and 54th) | Sphinx and “Marabout.” The Castle and Key | “Montis Insignia Calpe.” “Primus in Indis” | “Lankey’s Horse,” “Green Linnets,” (2nd battalion) “The Flamers” |
| South Lancashire (40th and 82nd) | Sphinx and “Egypt.” Prince of Wales’s Plume | “Excellers,” “The Fighting Fortieth” | |
| Welsh (41st and 69th) | Rose and Thistle within the Garter. Prince of Wales’s Plume | “Gwell augau neu Chwilydd” | “1st Invalids,” “Wardour’s Regiment,” (2nd battalion) “Old Agamemnons,” “Ups and Downs” |
| Royal Highlanders (42nd and 73rd) | V.R. within Garter. St. Andrew. The Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Nemo me impune lacessit” | “Black Watch.” “Sauvages d’Ecosse.” |
| Oxfordshire Light Infantry (43rd and 52nd) | United Red and White Rose. Bugle | “Light Bobs,” “Light Brigade” | |
| Essex Regiment (44th and 56th) | Castle and Key with “Gibraltar.” Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Montis insignia Calpe” | “The Two Fours,” “Little Fighting Fours,” (2nd battalion) “The Pompadours,” “Saucy Pompeys” |
| The Sherwood Foresters, (Derbyshire Regiment) (45th and 95th) | The United Red and White Rose | “Old Stubborns,” “Sherwood Foresters “Nottingham Hosiers,” (2nd battalion) “Sweeps” | |
| North Lancashire (47th and 81st) | The Red Rose | “Cauliflowers,” “Lancashire Lads,” “Wolfe’s Own,” (2nd battalion) “Loyal Lincoln Volunteers” | |
| Northamptonshire (48th and 58th) | Castle and Key with “Gibraltar.” Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Montis insignia Calpe” | “The Steelbacks,” “Heroes of Talavera” |
| Royal Berkshire (49th and 66th) | Dragon with “China” | (2nd battalion) “Green Howards,” “Two Sixes” | |
| Royal West Kent (50th and 97th) | Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Quo fas et gloria ducunt” | “Blind Half Hundred,” “Dirty Half Hundred,” “The Devil’s Royal,” “The Gallant Fiftieth,” (2nd battalion) “Celestials” |
| Yorkshire Light Infantry (51st and 105th) | The White Rose | “Cede nullis” | “The Kolis” |
| Shropshire Light Infantry (53rd and 85th) | The United Red and White Rose. A Bugle with K. L. I. | “Aucto splendore resurgo” | “Brickdusts” “Old Five and Threepennies,” (2nd battalion) “Elegant Extracts” |
| Middlesex (57th and 77th) | Prince of Wales’s Plume. Duke of Cambridge’s Coronet and Cipher in Laurel Wreath | “Steelbacks” “The Die-hards,” (2nd battalion) “The Pothooks” | |
| King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th—4 battalions) | Maltese Cross crowned, with Bugle and 60th in centre, with names of battles | “Celer et audax” | “Royal Americans,” “Sanguinary Sweeps” |
| Wiltshire (62nd and 99th) | Duke of Edinburgh’s Cipher and Coronet | “The Springers,” “Splashers” | |
| Manchester (63rd and 96th) | Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Bloodsuckers” | |
| North Staffordshire (64th and 89th) | Prince of Wales’s Plume. Dragon and “China” | ||
| York and Lancaster (65th and 84th) | Union Rose. Royal Tiger and “India” | ||
| Durham Light Infantry (68th and 106th) | United Red and White Rose. The Bugle | “Faithful Durhams” | |
| Highland Light Infantry (71st and 74th) | Elephant and “Assaye.” Bugle crowned, with H.L.I. inside | “Glasgow Light Infantry,” “The Glesca’ Keelies,” (2nd battalion) “The Assaye,” “Pig and Whistle Light Infantry” | |
| Seaforth Highlanders (72nd and 78th) | Elephant and “Assaye.” Late Duke of York’s Cipher and Coronet. A Stag’s Head | Cuidich’n Righ (”Help the King,” the motto of the Mackenzies) | “The Macraes,” (2nd battalion) “King’s Men” |
| Gordon Highlanders (75th and 92nd) | Royal Tiger and “India.” Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Strada Reale Highlanders” | |
| Cameron Highlanders (79th) | Thistle crowned. Sphinx and “Egypt” | “Cia mar tha’s” | |
| Royal Irish Rifles (83rd and 86th) | Harp crowned. Sphinx and “Egypt.” Bugle | “Quis separabit?” | “Fitch’s Grenadiers,” (2nd battalion) “County Downs,” “Shropshire Volunteers” |
| Royal Irish Fusiliers (87th and 89th) | Prince of Wales’s Plume. Harp crowned. Sphinx and “Egypt.” Eagle with Laurel wreath on grenade. Princess Victoria’s Coronet | “Old Fogs,” “Faugh-a-Ballagh Boys,” “Eagle-takers,” (2nd battalion) “Blayney’s Bloodhounds,” “The Rollickers” | |
| Connaught Rgrs. (88th and 94th) | Elephant. Sphinx and “Egypt.” Harp crowned | “Quis separabit?” | “Devil’s Own,” (2nd battalion) “Garvies” |
| Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders (91st and 93rd) | Princess Louise’s Cipher and Coronet. A Boar’s Head in a Myrtle wreath. A Cat in a Broom wreath | “Ne oblivis-caris” “Sans peur” | (2nd battalion) “The Thin Red Line,” “The Rories” |
| Leinster (100th & 109th) | Prince of Wales’s Plume in a circle crowned with Maple Leaf wreath. A Maple Leaf | “Royal Canadians,” (2nd battalion) “The German Legion.” “The Crusaders.” “The Wild Indians.” “The Centipedes.” “The Old Hundredth.” “The Colonials.” “The Maple- leaves”[94] | |
| Munster Fusiliers (101st & 104th) | Royal Tiger. Shamrock | “The Dirty Shirts” | |
| Dublin Fusiliers (102nd & 103rd) | Elephant with “Carnatic” and “Mysore.” Royal Tiger with “Plassey” and “Buxar” | “Specta-mur agendo” | “The Lambs,” (2nd battalion) “The Old Toughs” |
| Rifle Brigade (4 battalions) | Bugle. Rose. Maltese Cross, laurelled and crowned | “The Sweeps” | |
| West Indians | Broken Column with Ivy | “Buckmaster’s Light Infantry” | |
| Royal Marines | Globe and Laurel. Royal Cipher crowned. “Gibraltar” | “Per mare, per terram” | (Infantry) “The Joeys,” “The Jollies,” “The Little Grenadiers” (Artillery) “Blue Marines,” “Water Gunners” |
| Royal Malta Artillery | Maltese Cross within a Garter. Royal Cipher. Egypt, 1882 | ||
| Ordnance Store Corps | “Sugarstick Brigade” | ||
| Army Service Corps | “London Thieving Corps,” “Murdering Thieves,” “Moke Train,” “Muck Train”[95] | ||
| Army Medical Department | “Pills,” “Linseed Lancers,” “Poultice Whollopers”[94] | ||
| Chaplains Department | |||
| Army Veterinary Department |
FOOTNOTES
[1] Polybius.
[2] One of the latter was exhumed some years since on the field of Hastings.
[3] History of the Conquest of Granada.
[4] Atlas des Batailles, Kausler.
[5] The rates of pay, per day, at this time were:—