"Best name for a regiment?" Topic

I nominate an actual Austrian cavalry regiment from the Hungarian War of Independence 1848-1849 for the award of most appropriate regimental title:

The Hardegg Cuirassiers.

Can anyone beat that?

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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3rd Foot and Mouth. Carry on up the Khyber.

The Bucktails. 149th Pennsylvania ACW

Shining Monkey Heads. A cavalry regiment from the Great Paraguayan War.

Sir Lady Lancelot's Light in the Slipper's Diehard's!

"3rd Foot and Mouth."

A good joke reflecting the marvellous absurdities of the entire British regimental system as rendered by generations of Major Generals and clerks at Horse Guards who gave us:

16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers)

11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars)

2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)

Or in the infantry:
6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
24th (the 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
- (who bore no relationship whatsoever with each other)/

19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding – Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
33rd (the 1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot

It is hardly surprising that the system was deemed ripe for reform in 1881 but how did:
40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot become
- 1st Bn, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)?

Or the 30th (the Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
-1st Bn The East Lancashire Regiment?

It makes the 1861 title granted the '42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch' seem modest and logical- until one considers the uniforms the Royal Highlanders wore as they marched into battle at the Alma and Tel-el Kebir.

The Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada.

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There was a battalion of Quebec militia--War of 1812 vintage?--recruited from law students and known as "The Devil's Avocates."

And we should not forget the 5307th Composite Battalion (Provisional) better known as Merrill's Marauders.

But there was a western Confederate outfit named something like "16th Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Dismounted.)"

The 5307th was a "composite unit" not a battalion.

And there were a number of dismounted cavalry regiments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee that went by "Cavalry Regiment (dismounted)."

My favorite is "The Canaries" nickname for the Neuchatel Leger Battalion.

Jim

When the three Yorkshire regiments were reorganized from :
The Green Howards
The The Duke of Wellington's
and The Prince of Wale's Own the joke was that they became" The Prince of Wale's Own Green Wellingtons"……

The Robin Hood Rifles. Raised in 1859 as the Nottingham City militia battalion they went on in the Territorial Force to be the 7th (Robin Hood) Bn The Sherwood Foresters. Had the battle honour South Africa 1900-02. My Grandfather was a Robin Hood on the Somme at Gommecourt, So was I, as by the 1970's it was A (Robin Hood) Company Nottinghamshire Army Cadet Force.

John gordon organized the Racoon Roughs, and dear to my heart is the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, originally known as Ashby's Cavalry and later renamed the "Laurel Brigade."
I believe the 5th Georgia was known as the Poundcake Regiment

Wilder's Lightening Brigade, the Iron Brigade and Jackson's Stonewall Brigade come to mind for brigade names

I always like Napoleon's 57th Regiment de Ligne (le Terrible – rien ne les arręte)

the thread is mixing official units names and titles with only nicknames

as official units titles
Infantry Regiment of All the Colors in Spanish America Militia
Urban Commerce/Trade of Mexico Regiment
Argentine Agricultural Militar Legion
Pandours of the Cape
Battalion of Deserters
Corps of Invalids (in many countries)
Mormon Battalion
US Camel Corps
British Uhlans
Regiment of Pupils of the Imperial Guard
Battalion of Fathers of Familly, Revolutionary France
Battalion of Mountaineers Poachers, the same
New York Battalion "Lost Children"

Von Pilsenschnapps hussar..

9th Bearded Infantry

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Col Campbell, I stand corrected on the Marauders. It's been a while. But I still maintain that "cavalry regiment (dismounted)" merely acknowledges a state of affairs, while it takes a certain amount of bureaucratic insanity to get to "mounted infantry (dismounted.)"

If we're doing nicknames, surely "the Hostages" AKA the Guards of Honor ought to be included.

The Frangipani Hussars – great name, great uniform; yellow dolman, blue pelvises – and real.

Thanks, chaps. I was really hoping for more non-English names producing inadvertent translingual puns, and that maybe someone could come up with the Tuffnut Dragoons or De Poncey Lancers to match my Hardeggs. I will have to settle for brigading them with another Austrian 1848 outfit, the Kress Chevauxlegers, to make a Hardegg & Kress salad.

But thank you for all the fine nicknames and curious titles. I particularly liked the 'Prince of Wales Own Green Wellingtons' and some of the oddities offered by Lilian.

Chris

French OOB at Blenheim included the Silly Regiment!

Without pun, but funny: the British 11th Hussars:

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The Silly Regiment? Now that's the kind of thing I'm talking about! I may have to award the title to them!

Chris

"The Frangipani Hussars – great name, great uniform; yellow dolman, blue pelvises – and real."

Well if they'd just kept their (yellow) breeches on, the colour of their pelvises would never have been known to posterity, or posteriority, or something . . .

Cheers,
John

"The Artists Rifles"

Probably too politically incorrect to mention The Gay Gordons.

OK strictly a dance and a brave person that would address the Gordon Highlanders or their successors thus, nowadays.

Die Hards – 57th RoF