title: List of British Army regiments (1881)
text: # 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
  