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.

Household Cavalry

 * 1st Life Guards
 * 2nd Life Guards
 * Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)

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

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