List of British Army regiments (1881)
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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 - that gave each regiment two "line" battalions and two militia battalions. Existing two battalion regiments were renamed, while single battalion regiments were combined.
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
Cavalry of the Line
Dragoon Guards
Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers
- 1st (Royal) Dragoons[1]
- 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
Infantry
Foot Guards
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)
- Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) - renaming of 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot
- Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) - renaming of 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
- Buffs (East Kent Regiment) - renaming of 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot
- King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- Northumberland Fusiliers - renaming of 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, renaming of "9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot"
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service, renaming of 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
- Devonshire Regiment - renaming of 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- Suffolk Regiment - renaming of 12th (The East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
- Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
- Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- Bedfordshire Regiment - renaming of 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
- Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service, renaming of 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
- Lancashire Fusiliers - renaming of 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- Cheshire Regiment
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- South Wales Borderers
- 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
- The King's Own Borderers
- 25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
- 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
- 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 - merged with 2nd in 1881 to form single West Indian Regiment[2]
- 2nd West India Regiment