Foot later 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (from their Gaelic war cry 'Faugh a Ballagh' ('Clear the Way') during the Peninsular War). The Featherbeds – 16th Foot The Fighting Fifth – 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot later Royal Northumberland Fusiliers The Fighting Fifteenth – 15th The King's Hussars The Fighting Fortieth – 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot later South Lancashire Regiment The Fighting Ninth – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment The First and the Last – 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards First of Track 1st Royal Tank Regiment (humorous from the infantry's history being named xth of Foot) Fitch's Grenadiers – The Royal Irish Rifles The Five-and-threepennies – 53rd Foot The Flamers – 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment The Flying Bricklayers – Royal Engineers The Fogies – 41st Foot (originally formed from invalids and Chelsea Pensioners, see 1st Invalids) The Fore & Aft – Gloucestershire Regiment (wore a second badge on the back of their headdress: see Back Numbers) The Foreign Legion – Welsh Guards The Forty Twas – 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot later Black Watch The Forty-Tens – 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (from an incident in India where the men were 'numbering', or calling out their position in the ranks: after they reached 'forty-nine' the next man called out 'forty-ten'.) The Four-Wheeled Hussars – Royal Horse Artillery The Fragile and Suffering Highlanders - 1st Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, used by other regiments in the Highland Brigade circa 1960/70 G The Gallant Half-Hundred – 50th Foot The Gallants – 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment The Gallopers – 2nd Life Guards The Galloping Gunners – Royal Horse Artillery The Garvies – Connaught Rangers The Gay Gordons – Gordon Highlanders (from the name of a popular dance) The Gentleman Dragoons – 17th Lancers George's – 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (gained Royal title in reign of King George III) The Geraniums – 13th Hussars The German Legion, or The German Mob – 109th Foot (possibly took recruits from the disbanded British German Legion) The Glasgow Greys – 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot later 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment The Glesca Keelies – 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot later 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Regiment was mostly recruited in Glasgow ("Glesca"), allegedly from local ruffians ("Keelies"). The Globe Rangers – Royal Marines (from their badge) The Glorious Glosters – The Gloucestershire Regiment Lord