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

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) 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

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