List of British Army regiments (1881)
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This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms. It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.
Cavalry[]
Household Cavalry[]
- 1st Life Guards
- 2nd Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Cavalry of the Line[]
Dragoon Guards[]
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards
- 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
- 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
- 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers[]
- 1st Royal Dragoons
- 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
- 3rd The King's Own Hussars
- 4th Queen's Own Hussars
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers
- 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
- 7th Queen's Own Hussars
- 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
- 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
- 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
- 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
- 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
- 13th Hussars
- 14th King's Hussars
- 15th The King's Hussars
- 16th The Queen's Lancers
- 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
- 18th Hussars
- 19th Hussars
- 20th Hussars
- 21st Hussars (Lancers from 1897)
Support Arms[]
- Royal Regiment of Artillery
- Corps of Royal Engineers
- Royal Horse Artillery
Infantry[]
Foot Guards[]
- Grenadier Guards
- Coldstream Guards
- Scots Guards
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)[]
- Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
- 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot
- Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
- Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
- 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot
- King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- Northumberland Fusiliers
- 5th Regiment of Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers)
- Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
- 7th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
- King's (Liverpool Regiment)
- Norfolk Regiment - Royal title in 1935 as part of Silver Jubilee
- 9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
- Devonshire Regiment
- 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- Suffolk Regiment
- 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
- Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
- Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- 15th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot
- Bedfordshire Regiment
- 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
- Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
- Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
- Cheshire Regiment
- 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
- South Wales Borderers
- 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
- The King's Own Borderers
- The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
- 26th (The Cameronians) Regiment of Foot
- 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry)
- Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
- 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)
- Gloucestershire Regiment
- 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
- 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
- Worcestershire Regiment
- 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
- 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
- East Lancashire Regiment
- 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
- 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
- East Surrey Regiment
- 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
- 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
- Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
- 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
- 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
- 76th Regiment of Foot
- Border Regiment
- 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
- 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Sussex Regiment
- 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
- 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
- Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
- 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
- South Staffordshire Regiment
- 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
- 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
- Dorsetshire Regiment
- 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
- 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
- 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
- Welsh Regiment
- 41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot
- 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
- Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
- 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
- Oxfordshire Light Infantry
- 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
- 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot
- Essex Regiment
- 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
- 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
- Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
- 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
- 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
- Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- 47th (The Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
- 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
- Northamptonshire Regiment
- 48th (The Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
- 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
- Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment)
- 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot
- 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
- Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
- The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
- The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
- 53rd (The Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
- 85th (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
- The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment
- 57th (The West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
- 77th (The East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
- King's Royal Rifle Corps
- The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
- Manchester Regiment
- 63rd (The West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
- 96th Regiment of Foot
- The (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment
- 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
- 98th (The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
- The York and Lancaster Regiment
- 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
- 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
- Durham Light Infantry
- 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
- 106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)
- Highland Light Infantry
- 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
- 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot
- Seaforth Highlanders (Duke of Albany's/Ross-shire Buffs)
- 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
- 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (The Ross-shire Buffs)
- Gordon Highlanders
- 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
- 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- Royal Irish Rifles
- 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
- 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
- Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
- Connaught Rangers
- 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
- 94th Regiment of Foot
- Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
- 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- 102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)
- 103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)
- The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade
- 1st West India Regiment
- 2nd West India Regiment
Services[]
- Commissariat and Transport Corps (later becoming Royal Army Service Corps in 1888)
- Army Hospital Corps
- Army Ordnance Corps
- Corps of Military Mounted Police
- Corps of Army Schoolmasters
- Army Chaplains' Department
- Army Pay Department
- Army Veterinary Department
- Army Nursing Service
See also[]
- British Army order of precedence
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