List of British Army regiments (1881)
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.
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| Regiments of Foot |
| Regiments in 1881 |
| Territorial Force Units in 1908 |
| Yeomanry Regiments converted to Royal Artillery |
| Regiments in 1962 |
| Regiments in 1994 |
| Regiments in 2008 |
| Territorial Army units in 2012 |
| List of British Army Reserve Units (2020) |
| Present-day Regiments |
| Nicknames of regiments |
Cavalry
Household Cavalry
- 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards - amalgamated in 1922 to form The 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 - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
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 - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- 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 - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 14th King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 15th The King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 16th The Queen's Lancers - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
- 18th Hussars - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 19th Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 20th Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 21st Hussars (Lancers from 1897) - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
Support Arms
- Royal Regiment of Artillery
- Corps of Royal Engineers
- Royal Horse Artillery
Infantry
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)
- Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
- 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot
- Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
- 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
- Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
- 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot
- King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
- 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)
- 13th (1st Somersetshire)(Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- 14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
- 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)
- 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
- 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
- 25th (The York) Regiment of Foot (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
- Worcestershire Regiment
- East Lancashire Regiment
- East Surrey Regiment
- 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
- 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
- South Staffordshire Regiment
- 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
- 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
- Dorsetshire Regiment
- 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
- Essex Regiment
- 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)
- Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
- 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
- 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
- The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
- 51st Regiment of Foot (King's Own Light Infantry)
- 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
- 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
- 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
- The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
- 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
- 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
- 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
- Durham 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
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Irish Rifles
- Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
- 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
- 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
- Connaught Rangers
- Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Regiment of Foot
- 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians) Regiment of Foot
- 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- Royal Dublin 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
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