Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — British Regimental Nicknames. [ARTICLE]

British Regimental Nicknames.

Some army experts are strongly In favor of a more extensive nee of khaki for the purpose of campaigning. We have all heard of such regimental nicknames as “strawboots,” “cherublms.” “Nanny goats,” “slashers,” “Sankey’s horse,” “die hards,” and the “dirty half hundred,” but few people In England know that the first Indian regiment to don khaki became known as the “dustmen.”—London Telegraph.