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)
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
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)
- 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
- Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
- 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
- Suffolk Regiment
- Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
- Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- Bedfordshire Regiment
- 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)
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
- Cheshire Regiment
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- South Wales Borderers
- The King's Own Borderers
- 25th (The York) Regiment of Foot (King's Own Borderers)
- The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
- Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- Gloucestershire Regiment
- Worcestershire Regiment
- East Lancashire Regiment
- East Surrey Regiment
- Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
- Border Regiment
- Royal Sussex Regiment
- Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- South Staffordshire Regiment
- Dorsetshire Regiment
- Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
- Welsh Regiment
- Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- Oxfordshire Light Infantry
- Essex Regiment
- Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
- Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- Northamptonshire Regiment
- Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment)
- Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
- The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
- The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
- The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment
- King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
- The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
- Manchester Regiment
- The (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment
- The York and Lancaster Regiment
- Durham Light Infantry
- Highland Light Infantry
- Seaforth Highlanders (Duke of Albany's/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)
- Connaught Rangers
- Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- 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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