for 'What's Wrong?') The Cloudpunchers - Air Defence regiments of the Royal Artillery The Coal Heavers - Grenadier Guards The Cockney Jocks – London Scottish The Coldstreamers - Coldstream Guards The Colonials - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment The Comical Chemical Corporals – Special Brigade, Royal Engineers (responsible for poison gas and flame attacks; men with knowledge of chemistry were immediately promoted to corporal) The Commos – Royal Army Service Corps (possibly from their origins in the Commissariat and Transport Staff) The Crossbelts – 8th Hussars The Crusaders - 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment The Corned Beef Highlanders - The Cameron Highlanders, used as a reference to the Regimental tartan D The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory") The Delhi Spearman – 9th Lancers The Desert Rats - 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) then 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom), now 7th Infantry Brigade The Devil's Own – 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) later 1st Battalion The Connaught Rangers The Devil's Own – Inns of Court Regiment (so named by King George III ) The Devils Royals – 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment The Diehards – 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment (from the Battle of Albuera during the Peninsular War, when Colonel William Inglis is said to have urged the decimated regiment to "die hard") The Dirty Eighth – 8th Hussars The Dirty Half Hundred – 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment The Dirty Shirts – 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) later 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers ( During the Indian Mutiny the regiment wore shirts stained an early form of khaki as campaign dress) The Doc's – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry – (from their initials DOCLI) The Dogs – 17th Lancers Dog Squadron - 1 Armoured Engineers Squadron The Donkey Whallopers – Cavalry The Don't-Dance Tenth – 10th Hussars The Double X – Lancashire Fusiliers