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.

The 5 regiments of the Foot Guards have their own regimental marches, that are each performed by their respective regimental bands.

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

- - Band: Blue Bonnets O'er the Border[1]
- - Pipes: Pibroch O' Donail Dhu[1]

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

  1. Barnes.
  2. Planck, pp. 219–20.
  3. 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
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