their distinctive headgear) The Red Devils – The Parachute Regiment (Refers to either the use of Tunisian Red mud as camouflage or the red berets worn) The Red Feathers – 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Red Knights – 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot later Cheshire Regiment The Red Lancers – 16th Lancers (The only lancer regiment to retain the short-lived red uniform ordered by King William IV in 1830, the others having reverted to blue in 1846) The Regiment – Special Air Service (Refers to their successes in the field, a sarcastic belief that saying their name will summon them.) The Ribs - 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards. They were the first Infantry to officially serve on board navy ships as Marines The Right of the Line – Royal Horse Artillery (from their privileged position on ceremonial parade) Rob All My Comrades – Royal Army Medical Corps (derogatory back-acronym from the belief that medical personnel took advantage of their position to steal from casualties) Rob All Our Comrades – Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Rollickers – 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers The Romulans – Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry (RMLY) The Rorys – The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Rough Engineering Made Easy -Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers The Royal Goats – The Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Royal Tigers – York and Lancaster Regiment Run Away, Someone's Coming – Royal Army Service Corps (humorous back-acronym) Rusty Buckles – 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) Rickshaw Cabs and Taxi's - Royal Corps of Transport S The Sandbags – Grenadier Guards The Scarlet Lancers – 16th The Queen's Lancers later 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers – the only British lancer regiment to wear red rather than blue uniforms from 1830 to World War I The Sanguinary Sweeps – King's Royal Rifle Corps (from the red facings on their Rifle green (almost black) uniform) The Saucy Greens – Worcestershire Regiment (from the duck green facing colour of their uniform) The Saucy Pompeys – 56th Foot Saucy Sixth – 6th Regiment of Foot later Royal Warwickshire Regiment Saucy Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars Sauvages d'Ecosse – Black Watch Scaly Backs - Royal Signals The Shiners – Northumberland Fusiliers – from their high standard of spit and polish The Shiny Fourth – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery The Shiny