List of British Army regiments (1881)
# 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)

### Cavalry of the Line

**Dragoon Guards**

* 1st King's Dragoon Guards
* 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
* 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
* 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
* Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
* 7th (The Princess Royal's) 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

* Grenadier Guards
* Coldstream Guards
* Scots 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)
   * 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot
* 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
   * 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
* Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
   * 7th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
* King's (Liverpool Regiment)
   * 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
* 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
   * 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
* Suffolk Regiment
   * 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
* Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
   * 13th (1st Somersetshire)(Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
* Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
   * 14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
* East Yorkshire Regiment
   * 15th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot
* Bedfordshire Regiment
   * 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
* 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)
   * 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
* Lancashire Fusiliers
   * 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
* Royal Scots Fusiliers
   * 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
* Cheshire Regiment
   * 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
* Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
   * 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)
* 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)
* Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
   * 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
   * 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)
* Gloucestershire Regiment
   * 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
   * 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
* Worcestershire Regiment
   * 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
   * 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
* East Lancashire Regiment
   * 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
* East Surrey Regiment
   * 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
* Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
   * 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
   * 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
* Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
   * 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
   * 76th Regiment of Foot
* Border Regiment
   * 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
   * 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
* Royal Sussex Regiment
   * 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
   * 107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
* Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
   * 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
* South Staffordshire Regiment
   * 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
* Dorsetshire Regiment
   * 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
* Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
   * 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
* Welsh Regiment
   * 41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot
   * 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
* Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
   * 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
   * 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
* Oxfordshire Light Infantry
   * 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot
* Essex Regiment
   * 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
   * 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
* Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
   * 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
* Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
   * 47th (The Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
   * 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
* Northamptonshire Regiment
   * 48th (The Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 58th (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
* 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
* King's Royal Rifle Corps
   * 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
* The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
   * 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot
* 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
* Durham Light Infantry
   * 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
   * 106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)
* 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)
* Gordon Highlanders
   * 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
* Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
   * 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
* 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
* Connaught Rangers
   * 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)
   * 94th Regiment of Foot
* Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
   * 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Regiment of Foot
   * 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
* Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
   * 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians) Regiment of Foot
   * 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
* Royal Munster Fusiliers
   * 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
   * 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
* 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 (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
