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
  • Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)

Line 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
  • 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 (Iniskilling) 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

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)

• • 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) Regiemnt 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
    • 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) Regiemnt 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 (Westmoreland) 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 Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
    • 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) 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 (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot
    • 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) Regiemnt of Foot
  • The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
    • 67th (The Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
    • 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarckshire) 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)
    • 104th (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

Services

• • 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