one of the Marines' home bases, with Plymouth Argyle FC as its local football team) The Poachers – 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment and The Lincolnshire Regiment (from the regimental quick march, "The Lincolnshire Poacher") The Pompadours – 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment later 3rd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard – 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot, later The Royal Scots (they were the oldest regiment in the British Army and humorously claimed to date back to the time of Christ; in fact they were founded in 1633) The Poona Guards – East Yorkshire Regiment The Poona Pets – 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment The Pot Hooks – 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment The Potters – 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment recruited from The Potteries area around Stoke-on-Trent The Poultice Wallopers – Royal Army Medical Corps The Prince of Orange's Own Regiment – 35th Foot The Printers – 2nd City of London Rifle Volunteers (unit recruited in Fleet Street from the printing works of Eyre & Spottiswoode and Associated Newspapers) The Pull-Throughs – 42nd (East Lancashire) Division (from their divisional number and generally small stature, like the 'Four-by-Two' inches of the flannel pull-through used to clean a rifle). The Pump and Tortoise - 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment (from the regimental badge, a stylised fighting castle atop an equally stylised elephant) Q Queen's Last Resort – Queen's Lancashire Regiment (humorous back-acronym) Queer Objects On Horseback – Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (humorous back-acronym) Queers On Horseback – Queen's Own Hussars (humorous back-acronym) Quick Let's Run – Queen's Lancashire Regiment (humorous back-acronym) The Quill Drivers – Royal Army Pay Corps Quick And Ready And Never Caught - Queen Alexanders Royal Army Nursing Corps R Radio Cabs and Taxis – Royal Corps of Transport The Rag and Oil Company – Royal Army Ordnance Corps (humorous back-acronym) The Ragged Brigade – 13th Hussars The Ramnuggar Boys – 14th King's Hussars (from the Battle of Ramnagar in 1849) Rats After Mouldy Cheese – Royal Army Medical Corps (humorous back-acronym) The Ready Reckoners – Highland Regiments Really Large Corps – Royal Logistic Corps (humorous back-acronym) Reckless Chaps in Trucks – Royal Corps of Transport (humorous back-acronym) The Redbreasts – 5th Royal Irish Lancers The Redcaps – Royal Military Police (from