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The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Edmund Ironside, British field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Bernard Freyberg, British World War I officer and commander of NZEF in World War II; Frank C. Lynch, Jr., U.S. submarine commander [4] "Tooey" – Carl A. Spaatz, American general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Royal Military Police (RMP) [33] Military Provost Staff (MPS) [34] Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) [35] Royal Corps of Army Music - 14 + 20 bands [36] Royal Army Chaplains' Department - approx. 150 [37] Small Arms School Corps [38] Royal Army Physical Training Corps [39] General Service Corps; Royal Army Medical Service - 9 + 15 units [40]
The German, [24] the French and the British Commonwealth armies used the name "Tommy" for British soldiers. "Tommy" is derived from the name "Tommy Atkins" which had been used as a generic name for a soldier for many years (and had been used as an example name on British Army registration forms). The precise origin is the subject of some debate ...
A publicity photograph of "Tommy Atkins", a soldier of the 51st (Highland) Division, seated with a large doll in his arms, taken during the German offensive in Lys, 13 April 1918. Tommy Atkins or Thomas Atkins has been used as a generic name for a common British soldier for many years. The origin of the term is a subject of debate, but it is ...
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.As of 1 January 2025, the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Gurkhas, 25,742 volunteer reserve personnel and 4,697 "other personnel", for a total of 108,413.
Name Photo Appointment Former regiment/corps Honours Date of promotion Ref Sir Ralph William Wooddisse: Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps: Royal Anglian Regiment: KCB, CBE, MC: 19 April 2021 [5] Sir Ian John Cave: UK National Military Representative to NATO. UK National Military Representative to the European Union [6] Queen's Lancashire ...
Pages in category "British Army soldiers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 335 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.