Show TOMMY PET NAMES some soine of the sobriquets and DIs distine DIstl nc lions that arc are fied by the DrI tIsh soldiers Sold lers IN Y said a london paper a few da daya Ys again an out of the way para paragraph g raph yesterday being the nun anniversary iv i ebsary ersary of the battle of alexandria fought on march 21 1801 the usual custom of decking the colors with laurel was observed in those regiments which took part in lie the famous engagement under sir ralph abercrombie the battalions batt aliona of the grenadier guards which fought under sir john moore at corunna coranna Cor unna observe the same custom on the an niver sary of the action and regularly as the month of J june tune comes round every regiment that was represented at waterloo binds its colors with victorious wreaths even as the men cofone of one of the regiments wear the rose in their caps annually on the of august in memory of of the stand made by their cor corps s in a rose two g garden arden at minden alinden unless the custom has been affected by the recent sweeping changes in the british army a proviso which applies to other parts of this article wolfes brigade still wear the mourning line down the center of their lace for that gallant leader who died victorious on the plains of abraham one of the oldest distinctions distinct inns in the british service is the ama I 1 union popularly styled the uni in n jack or the queens color ot of the guards w which recalls the fact that monk duke of albemarle ita its birdt colonel and the restorer of charle charles 11 II was an admiral of ot the fleet the paschal jamb lamb which id is the badge of the second foot is eaid said to have ayen been adopted because the c corps irps was raided raised for the defense of tangier tr the dowry brought to the merry monarch by catharine of braganza braga anza the lamb being the emblem of portugal at the time of the suppression of a re belion the men were known satirically as kirkes lambs the third foot arc are nr or were the buffs being the lineal representatives senta tives of the men raised by the city of din on in 1672 1572 equipped in buff coats and sent to tha tile netherlands kut not long ago tho the 1 war office refused to allow the officers and men to retain the lime time honored fac facings at their own expense the old buffa buffs in memory of their origin retain the spec in caf privilege of f marching through the city with drums beating and colors flying the thirty first regiment claims the title young buffs conferred at dettingen dettinger Det by a it general who mistook the corps for the third and called out well done old buffi buffs I 1 a meow commendation na en dation which when instructed of his error he changed to then well done young buffs I 1 the fifth foot style themselves the old and bold and were long wearers bearers of white plumes in commemoration me of the fact that on the island of saint lucia the men killed so many french grenadiers grena diers that they mant cou could d equip themselves with the feathers of the slain when in 1829 leave to wear the white plume was given to several other corps the fifth obtained the right to have the tile feather leather parti col ored red at top whence the tradition that on a battlefield battle field the rank and file dipped their feathers in the blood of their slain enemies enemies the ninth got the tulo title of holy bo boys it in the peninsula from a sale of the tenth is the famous regiment which dont darnce the repetition of this supercilious reply to the proffer prof fier of a dublin hostess to furnish the officers with partners led to her indignant retort as she pointed to the doon door perhaps the tenth can marchl and ani through her influence at headquarters to the exile of the regiment to castlebar castlebary Cast lebar and end Ball enrobe the dullest dena dens upon tho the globe the bandsmen bandsman bands men of the twelfth wear a small crown on their caps as a i memorial of the last day on which in an E english sovereign led his troops in in penton a against the enemy george IL 11 led the twelfth and twenty second at and the officers offic cra and men of both regi m nals ants still wear roses on the sovereigns ere igns birthday in in memory of his leadership the twelfth d deserves erves mention for he the lesson which it gave james 11 II on the eve of the revolution because de of the number of catholics in its ranks it was thought safe to appal app al to the regiment at and id the king paraded it un hounslow IIo heath and invited the officers and men to bind to assist him i in n carrying 0 out ut his plan plans giving those who were not satisfied the option of quitting the bervice eer fer vice all al I 1 but two and a few privates straightway laid down th their air inns to james jaines s profound disgust take up your arm eaid said the king sullenly another time I 1 shall chall do you ahe honor of consulting you the sixteenth were long known as the peacemakers Peace makers 1 l that tha being the only regiment in the service except two recently formed indian corps with maiden colors it did not see lee a shot fired in anger from the siege of burnam down to the last boer war and even in the action of magala mountain it escaped with trifling loss the nineteenth claims the title of the green Ilo wards them in 1688 to distinguish them thein from fron the third also commanded by a howard but having buff bult facin facings 93 instead of the green of the newer cor corps 1 the he twenty third royal welsh fusiliers fusi liers delight in the st style ae of the royal nanny kanii goats bince since 1849 the goat that from f rom time immemorial has marched at their head has been sent to the regiment from windsor by the queen the men wear a bow of black ribbon with coda ends on the back of the collar a survival of the pigtail pig tail the twenty fourth claimed the title of howards greens from their th air grass green gree n facings and the colonel who commanded them in 1738 48 howards garbage 11 is another and less dignified arsion version tho the twenty tac nty eighth rejoices in several distinctions the title of the clashers Sla Sl shere ashers is variously attributed to the fact that tho the men aped their swords at white plains slashing away like ake good fellow fello wo and to the tradition that when in canada a brutal magistrate refused quarters to the women of the regiment during a severe winter some of the officers disguised themselves as indians broke into his house and slashed lied off his ears the old braggs is another name derived from their co colonel 11 onel in 1734 51 but the most valued distinction con cone berred upon the twenty eighth ia is that of wearing the regimental plate before and behind the shako a memorial of the regiments bravery at alexandria where the rear rank faced about and repelled the charge of the tile french cavalry while the front rank was engaged with another bodt body of the enemy the thirtieth bear ear the alluring name of the treble xe 9 the thirty first as b has as already been said are the young buffi buffs the thirty third were originally the Haver Have cako reake lads from their recruiting cruit cr ng ser sergeants gaDt a fashion of beating up recruits with a huge oaten cake spit spitted tedon on theand the end of his sword since the death of the iron duke the they have enjoyed the style of the ile me duke of wellington regiment their orange facings gave the thi f r ay iy ty fifth the style of f the orange oradge lilies and from their facings of grassgreen grass green the men of the tile thirty sixth were dubbed the saucy tl green the sobriety of alie ie men of the thirty eighth during their service at malta alta and the extreme deliberateness deliberate nesa of their movements earned for the re regiment ament the title of tl the it e pu pump m and ut tortoise the thirty nin ninth t from their green facings became became the green linnets linneas Lin nets CoL Sankey once mounted them on mules for u n forced march whence their other title Sank San keys cys horse this regiment bears the proud motto primoz in india having been the first to round the cape for ser sera vice in hindostan hindustan Hind the fortieth are the X L ere ers and their dark tartans hartans have conferred on the Forty second its famous name of the Black watch the F forty orty third were the original possessors of the sty leLi ht B 0 b 8 afterwards n applied i ed to a au if fig light lit infantrymen fantry men athe the forty fourth rejoice in the name old Stub borns conferred upon them in the peninsula where the forty sixth were self dubbed the from their commanders harangue under a pelting fire tire stand firm men and emulate the courage of the heroic Lace the light company of the forty sixth wear or wore a red pompon in in their caps instead of the green spoiled dotted by the rest of the regiment one version ia is that after the battlo battle of the brandy brandywine wine the company was marked out by the americans to be given no quarter in the event of its capture and that the flattered company changed its ito color BO so that there pay could d c be no mistake if one of its members were taken another give gives the distinction for the capture in the peninsula of the light company of the french forty sixth the forty seventh are the cauliflowers li though why is not ex pla ined the fiftieth have bare a whole elainee Ela host ost of names the devils royals the gallant fiftieth frosti their stand at Vi miera the blind half hundredth from the sufferings of the meno froin during the egyptian and t the he dirty half flun hundredth dred h bec because ause deion dil of the appearance of the regime regiment nt after a foag long march in hot weather when the perspiring heroes mopped their faces with the black cuffs the fifty first have been dubbed the kolis from their title kings own light infantry the tile fifty sixth from the color of their facings got for its men the ti ditl t lit of the pompadour Pomp Pompa adoun doum the fifty seventh tire the dle die harda 1 I from coh colonel nel anglia steady appeal die hard my men die hard hird I 1 at albue ra where only one officer of twenty four left le ft the field unhurt and I 1 68 in men en of the fifty eighth are the black cuff and the sled backs back one of the most moat wadel widely circulated 1 f 1 I 1 1 1 of popular 1 ar errors id is that which lilo ciul piul links the t famous war cry of faugh a ballagh with the connaught rangers Ra ugere the cry belon belongs to the eighty seventh royal irish irist fusilier sand and it vas was raised at barossa in 1811 when gough led the regiment upon the eighth french and captured the only rin y eagle taken by a british infantry fantry in regiment the eagle with a wreath of laurel is borne on the colora colors of the eighty seventh a distinction sh shared ared by the first royal dragoons and the scots greys the connaught rangers how h ever hayo have glory to spare though the regiment was only raised in 1793 and more than any other reap cor corps s it should be recalled by the readers ders ot of splendid eulogy of the athletic arms that drove t their h air bayonets at through t the h e phalanxes phalanx that never reeled in the t ae shock of war before the desperate valor that climbed the steeps stee and filled the moats of bada jos jost mention has been made of the black watch an even more famous highland regiment is the ninety third which at balaclava scorned to form square against the russian cavalry but received its charge in line at waterloo it may be remembered the highlanders High landers when the scots greys came to their aid instead of 0 opening r their ranks to let the horsemen through and reforming in the rear caught the stirrups of their mounted countrymen and dashed forward with them in the scotland forever I 1 charge |