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The following is a list of the militia regiments of the British army in the Victorian period. It shows their order of precedence in 1833, when permanent numbers were first allocated by ballot, and 1855, when numbers were reallocated to reflect the creation of new regiments and the conversion of existing ones. Militia infantry regiments were allocated to a regimental district in 1871 as part of the Cardwell reforms; in 1881, in a further series of reforms launched by Cardwell's successor, they were converted from independent units to a battalion of the new regiment. The table shows the battalion number and regiment to which these units were assigned in 1881, as well as any other significant changes in the unit's nature.

Following the Boer War, recruitment for the militia was ended and a new force, the Special Reserve, was created to take its place. Militia artillery regiments served as coastal artillery until after the Boer War: on conversion to the Special Reserve, they were designated to provide ammunition columns for regular Royal Artillery regiments.