This is a list of nicknames of regiments of the British Army. Many nicknames were used by successor regiments (following renaming or amalgamation). 1 1st Invalids – 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot later The Welsh Regiment (first raised as the Regiment of Invalids, in 1688) A Agile and Bolton Wanderers – Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (humorous allusion to Bolton Wanderers F.C.) The Aiglers – 87th Foot (captured a French Imperial Eagle (aigle) at the Battle of Barrosa) The Albert Lesters – Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry, also known as "God's Own" in the 3rd Cavalry Division during the Great War (reference to the lack of KIA until 13 May 1915 – having landed in France since early November 1914). Ally Sloper's Cavalry – Army Service Corps (humorous back-acronym; Ally Sloper was a popular pre-WWI cartoon character drawn by W.F. Thomas in a weekly comic strip; in contemporary slang an 'Alley Sloper' was a rent-dodger, who 'sloped off down the alley' when the rent-collector called) Andy Capp's Commandos - Army Catering Corps, named after the famous newspaper cartoon character Andy Capp The Angle-irons – Royal Anglian Regiment (humorous malapropism) The Armoured Chavalry – Royal Tank Regiment The Armoured Farmers – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (raised in the West Country) The Assaye Regiment – 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot (awarded a special Regimental Colour for service at the Battle of Assaye) B The Back Numbers (also The Back Badgers) – Gloucestershire Regiment (allowed to wear a regimental badge on the back of the hat, after the rear rank faced about to drive off French cavalry at the Battle of Alexandria (1801)) The Back Flash – Royal Welch Fusiliers (the last regiment to give up the queue or pigtail, retained the ribbons on the back of the collar) Bakers Light Bobs – 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) The Balsall Heath Artillery – 3rd South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (from their headquarters at Stoney Lane, Balsall Heath) The Bangalore Gallopers – 13th Hussars The Bangers – 1st Life Guards Barrell's Blues – 4th Foot The Bays – 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) The Beavers – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment (refers to the regiment's origin in Canada, and its first regimental badge) The Belfast Regiment – 35th Foot The Bendovers – 96th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment The Bengal