Seventh – 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment – being the only red-coated and brass-buttoned battalion in a brigade otherwise uniformed in rifle green with black buttons The Shiny Tenth – 10th Royal Hussars The Shropshire Gunners – 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – on conversion from a battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, there was a shortage of RA insignia, so the men were ordered to cut the 'KING'S' and 'L.I.' from their shoulder titles, leaving the word 'Shropshire' The Skilljngers – Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) The Skins – 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons – Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Skull and Crossbones – 17th Lancers (see Death and Glory Boys) The Sleepy Queens – Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Slop Jockeys = The Army Catering Corps The Snappers – East Yorkshire Regiment The Splashers – The Wiltshire Regiment The Sprats – 94th Foot The Springers – 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot – The Wiltshire Regiment – The Lincolnshire Regiment The Staffordshire Knot – 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment The Star of the Line – Worcestershire Regiment (from the elongated star forming part of the regimental badge) The Steelbacks - 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment – The Northamptonshire Regiment The Steel Heads – 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment The Stickies – The Royal Ulster Rifles (83rd & 86th) Stink – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (responsible for poison gas and flame attacks) Stonewallers – 37th Foot The Stoney Lane Boys – 3rd South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (from their headquarters at Stoney Lane, Balsall Heath) Strada Reale Highlanders – Gordon Highlanders Strawboots – 7th Dragoon Guards – 7th Hussars The Sugar Stick Brigade – Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Supple Twelfth – 12th Royal Lancers The Surprisers – 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot The Sussex Sappers – 1st Sussex Engineers The Sweeps – 95th Rifles later The Rifle Brigade (from their black facings) T The Tabs – 15th The King's Hussars later 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars 1st Tangerines – 2nd Foot (originally raised for the garrison of Tangiers) The Tankies – Royal Tank Regiment specifically, rather than cavalry units equipped with tanks – this differentiates from "tankers" as the US army term for all tank soldiers The Tartan Tankies 4th Royal Tank Regiment The Tearaways – 49th Foot Teenie Weenie