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The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; 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")
Mike Calvert, British Second World War leader of Special Forces formations [79] Mike Hoare, British officer and mercenary leader [80] "Magoo" – Tod D. Wolters, US Air Force General and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe "Majoren" (Norwegian, "The Major") – Hans Reidar Holtermann, Norwegian World War II military leader
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 ...
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]
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Molly Pitcher – American, Military woman who carried water pitchers for American soldiers in the Revolutionary war; Siegfried – Germany, the legendary dragon-slaying hero in Nibelungenlied. Sundiata Keita – Mali, founder of the Mali Empire and king of the Mandinke people. Tardanak – Altaic peoples, cunning boy-knight and opponent of giants.
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Mug-wamp - (Canadian) giant sturgeon monster said to inhabit Lake Temiskaming in Ontario. Name is of Native origin. Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people