Regimental marches of the British Army
The following is a list of the notable Regimental for military regiments of the British Army. In addition, all regiments have additional pieces for slow marches, marches for mounted parades and pipe marches.
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Units in 1940
Regular Army
Life Guards :- - Milanollo
Royal Horse Guards :- - Aida, Duchess of Kent
1st King's Dragoon Guards :- - The Radetsky March
Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) :- - Rusty Buckles
3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) :- - Carabinier's March
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards :- - St Patrick's Day (former 4th Dragoon Guards had been the Royal Irish)
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards :- - Soldier's chorus (Faust), Sprig of Shillelagh
1st Royal Dragoons :- - 1st Dragoons, Soldier's chorus (Faust),
Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons):[1]- - Walk: The Garb of Old Gaul
- - - Trot: The Keel Row
- - - Canter: Bonnie Dundee
- - - Dismounted: Highland Laddie
3rd The King's Own Hussars :- - (Quick) Robert the Devil
- - - (slow) The 3rd Hussars
4th Queen's Own Hussars :- - Quick: Berkeley's Dragoons
- - - Slow: Litany of Loretto
7th Queen's Own Hussars :- - The Bannocks Of Barley Meal
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars :- - The Galloping 8th Hussar
9th Queen's Royal Lancers :- - Men of Harlech
10th Royal Hussars :- - The Merry Month Of May
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) :- - Moses in Egypt 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) :- - Coburg March
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) :- - none
14th/20th Hussars :- - none
15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars :- - Elliot's Light Horse
16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers :- - St Patrick's Day (former 5th Lancers had been Royal Irish)
17th/21st Lancers :- - White Lancers
Royal Tank Regiment :- - My Boy Willie
Royal Artillery :- - British Grenadiers, Keel Row, Bonnie Dundee
Royal Engineers :- - British Grenadiers, Wings
Royal Corps of Signals :- - Begone Dull Care
Grenadier Guards :- - Slow: Scipio Quick: British Grenadiers
Coldstream Guards :- - Slow: Figaro Quick: Milanollo
Scots Guards:[1]- - Quick: Highland Laddie
- - - Slow: Garb of Old Gaul
Irish Guards :- - Slow:Let Erin Remember Quick: St Patrick's Day
Welsh Guards :- - Slow: Men of Harlech, Quick: Rising of the Lark
Royal Scots (Royal Regiment):[1]- - Quick: Dumbarton's Drums
- - - Slow: Garb of Old Gaul
- - - When Royalty present: The Daughter of the Regiment (commemorating the birth of Queen Victoria, daughter of the regimental colonel, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn)
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) :- - We'll gang nae mair to yon toun, Braganza
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) :- - The Buffs
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) :- - Corn Riggs are Bonny, Shall Trelawny Die?
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers
Royal Warwickshire Regiment :- - Warwickshire Lads
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) :- - British Grenadiers, 7th Royal Fusiliers
King's Regiment (Liverpool) :- - Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen
Royal Norfolk Regiment :- - Rule Britannia
Lincolnshire Regiment :- - Lincolnshire Poacher
Devonshire Regiment :- - We've Lived & Loved Together, Widdicombe Fair
Suffolk Regiment :- - Speed the Plough
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) :- - Prince Albert's March
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) :- - Ça Ira
East Yorkshire Regiment :- - Yorkshire Lass
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment :- - Mountain Rose, Mandolinata
Leicestershire Regiment :- - Romaika, A Hunting Call
Green Howards (Alexandra PoW's Own Yorkshire) :- - Bonnie English Rose
Lancashire Fusiliers :- - ?
Royal Scots Fusiliers:[1]- - Band: British Grenadiers
- - - Pipes: Highland Laddie
Cheshire Regiment :- - Wha wadna fetch for Charlie?
Royal Welch Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers, Men of Harlech
South Wales Borderers :- - Men of Harlech
King's Own Scottish Borderers:[1]- - Blue Bonnets O'er the Border
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles):[1]- - Band: Within a mile of Edinboro's Town
- - - Pipes: 1st Bn: Kenmuir's On An' Awa'
- - - 2nd Bn: The Gathering of the Grahams
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers, Sprig of Shilelagh
Gloucestershire Regiment :- - Kynegad Slashers, Highland Piper
Worcestershire Regiment :- - Royal Windsor
East Lancashire Regiment :- - Lancashire Lads, The Attack
East Surrey Regiment :- - Quick: A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky
- - - Slow: Lord Charles Montague's The Huntingdonshire March
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry :- - One and All
Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) :- - The Wellesley
Border Regiment :- - John Peel
Royal Sussex Regiment :- - The Royal Sussex
Hampshire Regiment :- - The Hampshires, Highland Piper
South Staffordshire Regiment :- - Come Lassies & Lads
Dorsetshire Regiment :- - The Dorsetshires
Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) :- - South Lancashires, God Bless the Prince of Wales
Welch Regiment :- - Ap Shenkin
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment):[1]- - Blue Bonnets over the Border, Highland Laddie
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry :- - Nachtlager in Grenada, Lower Castle Yard
Essex Regiment :- - The Essex, Highland Piper
Sherwood Foresters :- - ?
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) :- - The Red Rose
Northamptonshire Regiment :- - The Northamptonshires
Royal Berkshire (Princess Charlotte of Wales) :- - Dashing White Sergeant
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment :- - A Hundred Pipers
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry :- - Jockey of York, Jockey to the Fair
King's Shropshire Light Infantry :- - Old Towler
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) :- - Lass o' Gowrie, Sir Manley Power
King's Royal Rifle Corps :- - Huntesman's Chorus, Lutzow's Wild Hunt
Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's :- - The Wiltshires, The Fly be on the turmits
Manchester Regiment :- - The Manchesters
North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) :- - The Days We went Gypsying
York and Lancaster Regiment :- - ?
Durham Light Infantry :- - Light Barque, Old 69th, Keel Row
Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regt):[1]- - Whistle o'er the lave o't,
- - - Column: Blue Bonnets over the Border
- - - Close column: Highland Laddie
- - - Marching into barracks: Scotland the Brave
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's) :- - Highland Laddie
Gordon Highlanders:[1]- - Cock o' the North
- - - Until 1932: Highland Laddie
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders :- - Pilbeoch o' Donald Dhu, March of the Cameron Men
Royal Ulster Rifles :- - Off, off, said the Stranger
Royal Irish Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers
- - - combination of Barrosa, Garry Owen, Norah Creing, St Patrick's Day
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's):[1]- - 1st Bn The Campbells are Coming
- - - 2nd Bn: Highland Laddie
Rifle Brigade :- - I'm Ninety Five
Royal Army Service Corps :- - Wait for the Wagon
Royal Army Medical Corps :- - Bonny Nell
Royal Army Ordnance Corps :- - Village Blacksmith
Royal Army Pay Corps :- - Primrose & Blue
Royal Army Veterinary Corps :- - Village Blacksmith
Army Dental Corps :- - none
Territorial Army
Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry:[1]- - Garb of Old Gaul
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry:[1]- - Wee Cooper o' Fife
Lovat Scouts:[1]- - The Lovat Scouts
Scottish Horse:[1]- - The Scottish Horse
7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment:[2]- - My Lady Greensleeves
London Scottish:[1]- - Highland Laddie
Liverpool Scottish:[1]- - Glendauruel Highlanders
1st Surrey Rifles[3]- - Lutzow's Wild Hunt
Tyneside Scottish:[1]- - Highland Laddie
Units in 2008
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - Radetsky & Rusty Buckles;
- Royal Dragoon Guards - St Patrick's Day
- 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles - Young May Moon;
- 9th/12th Royal Lancers - God Bless the Prince of Wales;
- 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - A Life on the Ocean Wave and Balaklava March;
- l4th/20th King's Hussars - Royal Sussex;
- 15th/19th king's Royal Hussars - The Bold King's Hussars;
- 16th/5th Queen's royal Lancers - Stable Jacket;
- 15th Princess Mary's own Gurkha Rifles - Hundred Pipers;
- 17th/21st Lancers - The White Lancers;
- 22nd (Cheshire) regiment - Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie;
- Adjutant General's corps - Pride of Lions;
- Allied Rapid Reaction Corps - Fortune Favours the Bold;
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - The Thin Red Line;
- Army Air Corps - Recce Flight;
- Army Benevolent Fund - Action Support; SSAFA - The SSAFA Concert March;
- Army Catering corps - Sugar and Spice;
- Army Legal Corps - Scales of Justice;
- Army Physical Training Corps - Be Fit;
- Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - Highland Laddie;
- Blues and Royals - Grand March from Aida & The Royals;
- Brigade of Gurkhas - Yo Nepali;
- British Korean Veterans' Association - The Hills of Korea;
- Burma Star Association - On The Road To Mandalay;
- Central flying School - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines;
- Civil Admin (MOD) - Soldiers First;
- St Dunstans - St Dunstans;
- Coldstream Guards - Milanollo;
- Corps of Royal electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Lillibullero;
- Corps of Royal Engineers - Wings;
- Corps of Royal Military Police - The Watch Tower;
- Corps of Army Music/RMSM - Blow Away the Morning Dew
- Devonshire and Dorset Regiment - Widecombe Fair, We've Lived and Loved Together and The Maid of Glenconnel;
- Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy;
- Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - The Wellesley;
- Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles - Old Monmouthshire;
- Dunkirk Veterans Association - Dunkirk Veterans March;
- Fleet Air Arm - Flying Stations;
- Gloucestershire Regiment - The Kinnegad Slashers;
- Gordon Highlanders - Cock o' the North; 2nd
- Green Howards - Bonnie English Rose;
- Grenadier Guards - British Grenadiers;
- Gurkha Signals - Scotland the Brave;
- Special air Service - Marche Des Parachutistes Belges;
- Gurkha Transport Regiment - Wait for the Wagon;
- Gurkha Engineers - Wings;
- Gurkha Military Police - The Watch Tower;
- Highlanders - The Queen's Own Highlanders & Cock o' the North;
- Intelligence corps - The Rose and the Laurel;
- Irish Guards - St Patrick's Day;
- King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles - Lutzow's Wild Hunt;
- King's Own Scottish Borderers - Blue Bonnets Over the Border;
- King's Division - Bond of Friendship;
- King's Royal Hussars - The King's Royal Hussars;
- King's Regiment - The Kingsman;
- King's Own Border Regiment - John Peel & Corn Rigs are Bonnie;
- Life Guards - Milanollo;
- Light Division - The Light Division;
- Light Infantry - Light Infantry;
- Military Provost Staff Corps - The Metropolitan;
- Normandy Veterans' Association - Normandy Veterans;
- Parachute Regiment - Ride of the Valkyries; 7th
- Prince of Wales' Division - God Bless the Prince of Wales;
- Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire - Ca Ira and The Yorkshire Lass;
- Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy/The Soldiers of the Queen;
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps - Gray and Scarlet;
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service - QARNNS March;
- Queen's Royal Irish Hussars - St Patrick's Day, Berkeley's Dragoons and The Galloping 8th Hussars;
- Queen's Regiment - Soldiers of the Queen;
- Queen's division - The Queensman;
- Queen's Royal Hussars - The Queen's Royal Hussars;
- Queen's Own Hussars - Light Cavalry;
- Queen's Royal lancers - Scarlet and Green;
- Queen's Own Highlanders - Scotland for Ever & Cameron Men;
- Queen's Lancashire Regiment - The Attack & The Red Rose;
- Reconnaissance Corps - Away To The Mountain's Brow;
- Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force March Past
- Royal Air Force Association - RAF Association March;
- Royal Air Force Nursing Service - Skywards;
- Royal Air Force Police - Royal Air Force Police March Past
- Royal Air Force Regiment - Holyrood
- Royal Anglian Regiment - Rule Britannia & Speed the Plough;
- Royal Army Chaplain's Department - Trumpet Voluntary;
- Royal Army Education Corps - Gaudeamus Igitur & The Good Comrade;
- Royal Army Medical Corps - Here's a Health unto His Majesty;
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps - The Village Blacksmith
- Royal Army Pay Corps - Imperial Echoes;
- Royal Army Veterinary Corps - Drink Puppy Drink & A Hunting We Will Go;
- Royal British Legion - The British Legion;
- Royal Corps of Signals - Swift and Sure; Begone Dull Care; The Signaller.
- Royal Corps of Transport - Wait for the Wagon;
- Royal Army Dental Corps - Green Facings;
- Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - The Sphinx and Dragon;
- Royal GreenJackets - Huntsman's Chorus & The Italian Song;
- Royal Hampshire Regiment - The Hampshire;
- Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayreshire Regiment) - Whistle o'er the Lave O't and British Grenadiers:
- Royal Hospital Chelsea - Boys of the Old Brigade
- Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) - The Merry Month of May;
- Royal Irish Rangers - Killaloe;
- Royal Logistic Corps - On Parade;
- Royal Marines - A Life on the Ocean Wave;
- Royal Marine Commandos - Sarie Marais;
- Royal Navy - Heart of Oak;
- Royal Naval Association - Under the White Ensign
- Royal Observer Corps - Skywatch;
- Royal Pioneer Corps - Pioneer Corps;
- Royal Regiment of Artillery - British Grenadiers & Voice of the Guns;
- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - New Fusilier; The British Grenadiers
- Royal Regiment of Wales - Men of Harlech;
- Royal Scots - Dumbarton's Drums;
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - 3DG's;
- 5th Royal Inniskilling Guards - Fare ye Well Inniskilling;
- Royal Star and Garter Home - The Royal Star and Garter;
- Royal Tank Regiment - My Boy Willie;
- Royal Welch Fusiliers - The British Grenadiers;
- Scots Guards - Heilan' Laddie;
- Small Arms School Corps - March of the Bowmen;
- Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) - Come Lasses and Lads and The Days We went A-Gipsying;
- Strike Command - Strike Command March Past;
- Sub mariners - Up Periscope;
- Ulster Defence Regiment - Sprig of Shillelagh & Garryowen;
- Welsh Guards - Rising of the Lark;
- Women's Royal Army Corps - Lass of Richmond Hill & Early One Morning;
- Women's Royal Naval Service - Passing By;
- Women's Royal Voluntary Service - The WRVS March.
- Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment - Young May Moon & The Royal Windsor;
Notes
- Barnes.
- Planck, pp. 219–20.
- Anon, War Record, p. 14.
References
- Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1940). The British Army. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
- Anon, A War Record of the 21st London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 1914–1919, 1927/Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, ISBN 1-843426-19-6.
- Maj R. Money Barnes, The Uniforms and History of the Scottish Regiments, London: Seeley Service, 1956/Sphere 1972.
- C. Digby Planck, The Shiny Seventh: History of the 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment, London: Old Comrades' Association, 1946/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2002, ISBN 1-84342-366-9.
- Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Quick Marches of the British Armed Forces – audio recordings in four volumes