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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.

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)
- 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)
- 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
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
Connaught Rangers
- 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
- 94th Regiment of Foot
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
- 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