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
- 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 (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
Light Cavalry
- 1st Royal Dragoons
- 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
- 3rd The King's Own Hussars
- 4th Queen's Own Hussars
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- 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 - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 14th King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 15th The King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 16th The Queen's Lancers - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
- 18th Hussars - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 19th Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 20th Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 21st Hussars (Lancers from 1897) - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
Support Arms
Infantry
Foot Guards
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)
- Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
- Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
- Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
- King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- 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
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
- 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 WWII service
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- Cheshire Regiment
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- South Wales Borderers
- The 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 WWII 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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