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 and 2nd Life Guards - amalgamated in 1922 to form The Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards
Cavalry of the Line
Dragoon Guards
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards
- 2nd Dragoon Guards
- 3rd Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 5th Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- Carabiniers - amalgamated into the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards in 1922
- 7th Dragoon Guards - amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922
Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers
- 1st Royal Dragoons
- 2nd Dragoons
- 3rd The King's Own Hussars
- 4th Queen's Own Hussars
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 6th Dragoons - amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922
- 7th Queen's Own Hussars
- 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
- 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
- 10th Royal Hussars
- 11th Hussars
- 12th Lancers
- 13th Hussars - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 14th King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 15th The King's Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 16th The Queen's Lancers - amalgamated into the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922
- 17th Lancers - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
- 18th Hussars - amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922
- 19th Hussars - amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922
- 20th Hussars - amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922
- 21st Hussars - amalgamated into the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922
Support Arms
- Royal Regiment of Artillery
- Corps of Royal Engineers
- Royal Horse Artillery
Infantry
Foot Guards
- Grenadier Guards
- Coldstream Guards
- Scots Guards
- Irish Guards
- Welsh Guards
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)
- Royal Scots
- *1st Regiment of Foot
- Queen's
- *2nd Regiment of Foot
- Buffs
- *3rd Regiment of Foot
- King's Own
- *4th Regiment of Foot
- Northumberland Fusiliers
- *5th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- *6th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Fusiliers
- *7th Regiment of Foot
- King's
- *8th Regiment of Foot
- Norfolk Regiment - Royal title in 1935 as part of Silver Jubilee
- *9th Regiment of Foot
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- *10th Regiment of Foot
- Devonshire Regiment
- *11th Regiment of Foot
- Suffolk Regiment
- *12th Regiment of Foot
- Prince Albert's
- *13th Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Own
- *14th Regiment of Foot
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- *15th Regiment of Foot
- Bedfordshire Regiment
- *16th Regiment of Foot
- Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- *17th Regiment of Foot
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- *18th Regiment of Foot
- Princess of Wales's Own
- *19th Regiment of Foot
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- *20th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- *21st Regiment of Foot
- Cheshire Regiment
- *22nd Regiment of Foot
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh in 1921
- *23rd Regiment of Foot
- South Wales Borderers
- *24th Regiment of Foot
- The King's Own Borderers
- *25th Regiment of Foot
- The Cameronians
- *26th Regiment of Foot
- *90th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- *27th Regiment of Foot
- *108th Regiment of Foot
- Gloucestershire Regiment
- *28th Regiment of Foot
- *61st Regiment of Foot
- Worcestershire Regiment
- *29th Regiment of Foot
- *36th Regiment of Foot
- East Lancashire Regiment
- *30th Regiment of Foot
- *59th Regiment of Foot
- East Surrey Regiment
- *31st Regiment of Foot
- *70th Regiment of Foot
- Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- *32nd Regiment of Foot
- *46th Regiment of Foot
- Duke of Wellington's
- *33rd Regiment of Foot
- *76th Regiment of Foot
- Border Regiment
- *34th Regiment of Foot
- *55th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Sussex Regiment
- *35th Regiment of Foot
- *107th Regiment of Foot
- Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- *37th Regiment of Foot
- *67th Regiment of Foot
- South Staffordshire Regiment
- *38th Regiment of Foot
- *80th Regiment of Foot
- Dorsetshire Regiment
- *39th Regiment of Foot
- *54th Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Volunteers
- *40th Regiment of Foot
- *82nd Regiment of Foot
- Welsh Regiment
- *41st Regiment of Foot
- *69th Regiment of Foot
- Black Watch
- *42nd Regiment of Foot, The Black Watch
- *73rd Regiment of Foot
- Oxfordshire Light Infantry
- *43rd Regiment of Foot
- *52nd Regiment of Foot
- Essex Regiment
- *44th Regiment of Foot
- *56th Regiment of Foot
- Sherwood Foresters
- *45th Regiment of Foot
- *95th Regiment of Foot
- Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- *47th Regiment of Foot
- *81st Regiment of Foot
- Northamptonshire Regiment
- *48th Regiment of Foot
- *58th Regiment of Foot
- Princess Charlotte of Wales's
- *49th Regiment of Foot
- *66th Regiment of Foot
- Queen's Own
- *50th Regiment of Foot
- *97th Regiment of Foot
- The King's Own Light Infantry
- *51st Regiment of Foot
- *105th Regiment of Foot
- The King's Light Infantry
- *53rd Regiment of Foot
- *85th Regiment of Foot
- The Middlesex Regiment
- *57th Regiment of Foot
- *77th Regiment of Foot
- King's Royal Rifle Corps
- *60th Regiment of Foot
- The Wiltshire Regiment
- *62nd Regiment of Foot
- *99th Duke of Edinburgh's Regiment of Foot
- Manchester Regiment
- *63rd Regiment of Foot
- *96th Regiment of Foot
- The North Staffordshire Regiment
- *64th Regiment of Foot
- *98th Regiment of Foot
- The York and Lancaster Regiment
- *65th Regiment of Foot
- *84th Regiment of Foot
- Durham Light Infantry
- *68th Regiment of Foot
- *106th Regiment of Foot
- Highland Light Infantry
- *71st Regiment of Foot
- *74th Regiment of Foot
- Seaforth Highlanders
- *72nd Regiment of Foot
- *78th Regiment of Foot
- Gordon Highlanders
- *75th Regiment of Foot
- *92nd Regiment of Foot
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- *79th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Irish Rifles
- *83rd Regiment of Foot
- *86th Regiment of Foot
- Princess Victoria's
- *87th Regiment of Foot
- *89th Regiment of Foot
- Connaught Rangers
- *88th Regiment of Foot
- *94th Regiment of Foot
- Princess Louise's
- *91st Regiment of Foot
- *93rd Regiment of Foot
- Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment
- *100th Regiment of Foot
- *109th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- *101st Regiment of Foot
- *104th Regiment of Foot
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- *102nd Regiment of Foot
- *103rd Regiment of Foot
- The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade
- 1st West India Regiment
- 2nd West India Regiment
Services
- Commissariat and Transport Corps
- 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