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.

Cavalry

Household Cavalry

*1st Life Guards
*2nd Life Guards
** 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards amalgamated in 1922 to form The Life Guards
*Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)

Cavalry of the Line

Heavy Cavalry

*1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
*2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
*3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
*4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
*5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
*6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
*7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards

Light Cavalry

*1st (Royal) Dragoons
*2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
*3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
*4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
*5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
*6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
*7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
*8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
*9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
*10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
*11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
*12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
*13th Hussars
*14th (The King's) Hussars
*15th (The King's) Hussars
*16th (The Queen's) Lancers
*17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
*18th Hussars
*19th Hussars
*20th Hussars
*21st Hussars

upport 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)

*The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
**1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot
*The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
**2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
*The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
**3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot
*The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
**4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
*The Northumberland Fusiliers
**5th Regiment of Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers)
*The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
**6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
**7th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
*The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
**8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
*The 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 WWII service
**10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Devonshire Regiment
**11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Suffolk Regiment
**12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
*The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
**13th (1st Somersetshire)(Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
*The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
**14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
*The East Yorkshire Regiment
**15th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot
*The Bedfordshire Regiment
**16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
**17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Irish Regiment
**18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
*The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
**19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
*The Lancashire Fusiliers
**20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Scots Fusiliers
**21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
*The Cheshire Regiment
**22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
**23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
*The 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)
*The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
**27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
**108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)
*The Gloucestershire Regiment
**28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
**61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
*The Worcestershire Regiment
**29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
**36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
*The East Lancashire Regiment
**30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
**59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
*The East Surrey Regiment
**31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
**70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
*The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
**32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
**46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
**33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
**76th Regiment of Foot
*The Border Regiment
**34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
**55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Sussex Regiment
**35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
**107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
*The Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
**37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
**67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
*The South Staffordshire Regiment
**38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
**80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
*The Dorsetshire Regiment
**39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
**54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
*The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
**40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
**82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
*The Welsh Regiment
**41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot
**69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
**42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
**73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
**43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
**52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Essex Regiment
**44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
**56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
*The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
**45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
**95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
*The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
**47th (The Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
**81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
*The Northamptonshire Regiment
**48th (The Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
**58th (The 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
*The 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
*The King's Royal Rifle Corps
**60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
*The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
**62nd (The Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
**99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
*The 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
*The Durham Light Infantry
**68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
**106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)
*The 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)
*The Gordon Highlanders
**75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
**92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
*The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
**79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
*The Royal Irish Rifles
**83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
**86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
*Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
**87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
**89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
*The Connaught Rangers
**88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
**94th Regiment of Foot
*Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders)
**91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Regiment of Foot
**93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
*The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
**100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians) Regiment of Foot
**109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
*The Royal Munster Fusiliers
**101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
**104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
*The 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

ervices

*Commissariat and Transport Corps
*Army Hospital Corps
*Army Ordnance Corps
*Corps of Military Mounted Police
*Corps of Army Schoolmasters
*Army Chaplain's Department
*Army Pay Department
*Army Veterinary Department
*Army Nursing Service