# 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