British Soldiers

British Soldier may refer to:

  • A member of the British Armed Forces, particularly the British Army
  • The lichen Cladonia cristatella, a type of cup lichen commonly known as "British Soldiers"

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or soldiers:

    “If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
    —British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    “But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
    With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
    people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)