Hanoverian White Horse – 8th Foot Kingsley's Stand – Lancashire Fusiliers Kirke's Lambs – The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (from their Paschal Lamb badge; ironic allusion to their brutal conduct under Percy Kirke's command during the Monmouth Rebellion) The Kokky-Olly Birds – The King's Own Scottish Borderers The Kosbies or Kobs – King's Own Scottish Borderers (from their initials) The Koylis – The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (from their initials) L The Lacedemonians – Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Lambs – 102nd Foot The Lancashire Lads – 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Lancashire Cavalry – B (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron, Queen's Own Yeomanry The Leather Hats – 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot later The King's (Liverpool Regiment) The Lewisham Gunners – 4th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery The Light Bobs – Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry later The Light Infantry Lightning Conductors – Cheshire Regiment (a detachment of the 2nd Battalion was struck by lightning in 1899) The Lillywhites – Leicestershire Regiment – East Lancashire Regiment – 109th Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment The Lillywhite Seventh – 7th Queen's Own Hussars The Lilywhites – 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) Limmer's Own – 12th Lancers The Lincolnshire Poachers – Lincolnshire Regiment (from a traditional folk song) Linseed Lancers – Royal Army Medical Corps The Lions – The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) (from their cap badge) The Lions of England – Duke of Lancaster's Regiment The Liverpool Blues – Liverpool Blues (Regiment), volunteer unit 1745–46 – 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) 1778–84 The Liverpool Militia – Irish Guards (due historically to large numbers of Liverpudlian Irish in their ranks) The 9th London and Lancs – 9th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (West Country Kitchener's Army battalion made up to strength with recruits from London and Lancashire) Lord Cardigan's Bloodhounds – 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (commanded for several years in the early nineteenth century by James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan) Lord Wellingtons Bodyguard – Northumberland Fusiliers Loyal Lincoln Volunteers – 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment The Lumpers – 1st Life Guards The Lumps – 2nd Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers M The Macraes – 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders The Maple Leaves – 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot The Meanee Boys