Household Cavalry—Dragoon Guards—Cavalry—Artillery—Engineers—Guards—Infantry, both past and present nomenclature—Other units

The composition of the British Army is a matter concerning which the lay reader knows but little. As many regiments will be mentioned by name in the following pages, it is very necessary that the various divisions be given in tabulated form for purposes of reference. Without such a list the collecting of badges, crests, and other devices cannot be performed methodically nor can we study the various forms of dress with anything like precision.

The following list consists of one hundred and fourteen units, many of which may be sub-divided into regulars, territorials, and cadets. Where such sub-divisions exist separate badges are worn. It must also be mentioned that each battalion in certain regiments boasts of a distinct device of its own. The different badges worn to-day in the King's Army are therefore considerably above two hundred in number:—

Household Cavalry:

1st Life Guards.
2nd Life Guards.
Royal Horse Guards.

Dragoon Guards:

1st Dragoon Guards (King's).
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays).
3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's).
4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish).
5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers).
7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's).

Cavalry:

1st Royal Dragoons.
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys).
3rd 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 Prince of Wales's Own Royal Hussars.
11th Prince Albert's Own Hussars.
12th Prince of Wales's Royal Lancers.
13th Hussars.
14th King's Hussars.
15th The King's Hussars.
16th The Queen's Lancers.
17th Duke of Cambridge's Own Lancers.
18th Queen Mary's Own Hussars.
19th Queen Alexandra's Own Royal Hussars.
20th Hussars.
21st Empress of India's Lancers.

Royal Artillery.

Royal Engineers.

Guards:

Grenadier Guards.
Coldstream Guards.
Scots Guards.
Irish Guards.
Welsh Guards.

Infantry:

(N.B.—Following each horizontal mark the old regimental nomenclature is appended. It will be seen that in many cases two of the old regiments were joined together to form one of the new.)

• Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)—1st or Royal Scots.
• Queen's (Royal West Surrey)—2nd or Queen's Royal.
• Buffs (East Kent)—3rd East Kent.
• King's Own (Royal Lancaster)—4th or King's Own.
• Northumberland Fusiliers—5th or Northumberland Foot Regiment.
• Royal Warwickshire Regiment—6th or 1st Warwickshire Foot Regiment.
• Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)—7th Regiment of Foot or Royal Fuzileers.[1]

  [1] The old spelling is retained.

• King's (Liverpool Regiment)—8th or King's Regiment.
• Norfolk Regiment—9th East Norfolk.
• Lincolnshire Regiment—10th North Lincolnshire.
• Devonshire Regiment—11th North Devonshire.
• Suffolk Regiment—12th or East Suffolk.
• Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)—13th or 1st Somersetshire.
• Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)—14th or Buckinghamshire Regiment.
• East Yorkshire Regiment—15th Yorkshire (East Riding).
• Bedfordshire Regiment—16th or Bedfordshire Regiment.
• Leicestershire Regiment—17th or Leicestershire Regiment.
• Royal Irish Regiment—18th or Royal Irish Regiment.
• Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)—19th or 1st Yorkshire (North Riding).
• Lancashire Fusiliers—20th or East Devonshire.
• Royal Scots Fusiliers—21st or Royal North British Fuzileers.
• Cheshire Regiment—22nd or Cheshire Regiment.
• Royal Welsh Fusiliers—23rd or Royal Welsh Fuzileers.
• South Wales Borderers—24th or Warwickshire Regiment.
• King's Own Scottish Borderers—25th or King's Own Borderers.
• Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)—26th or Cameronians; also Perthshire Volunteers.
• Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers—27th or Inniskilling Regiment.
• Gloucestershire Regiment—28th or North Gloucestershire; also 61st or South Gloucestershire.
• Worcestershire Regiment—29th Worcestershire; also 36th or Herefordshire.
• East Lancashire Regiment—30th or Cambridgeshire Regiment; also 59th or 2nd Nottinghamshire Regiment.
• East Surrey Regiment—31st or Huntingdonshire Regiment; also 70th or Glasgow Lowland Regiment.
• Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry—32nd or Cornwall Regiment; also 46th or South Devonshire Regiment.
• Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)—76th Regiment; also 33rd or 1st Yorkshire (West Riding Regiment).
• (This is the only regiment named after a person not of royal blood.)
• Border Regiment—34th or Cumberland; also 55th or Westmoreland Regiment.
• Royal Sussex Regiment—35th or Sussex Regiment.
• Hampshire Regiment—37th or North Hampshire; also 67th or South Hampshire.
• South Staffordshire Regiment—38th or 1st Staffordshire; also 80th or Staffordshire Volunteers.
• Dorsetshire Regiment—39th Dorsetshire; also 54th or West Norfolk.
• Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)—40th or 2nd Somersetshire; also 82nd Regiment.
• Welsh Regiment—41st Regiment of Foot; also 69th or South Lincolnshire.
• Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)—42nd or Royal Highland Regiment; also 73rd Highland Regiment.
• Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry—43rd or Monmouthshire
• Regiment; also 52nd or Oxfordshire Regiment.
• Essex Regiment—44th or East Essex; also 56th or West Essex Regiment.
• Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)—45th or Nottinghamshire.
• Loyal North Lancashire Regiment—47th or Lancashire Regiment; also 81st Regiment.
• Northamptonshire Regiment—48th Northamptonshire; also 58th Rutlandshire.
• Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)—49th or Hertfordshire Regiment; also 66th or Berkshire Regiment.
• Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)—50th or West Kent; also 97th or Queen's Own Regiment.
• King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)—51st or 2nd Yorkshire (West Riding).
• King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)—53rd or Shropshire Regiment; also Bucks Volunteers.
• Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)—57th or West Middlesex; also 77th or East Middlesex.
• King's Royal Rifle Corps—60th or Royal American Regiment.
• Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)—62nd or Wilts Regiment; also Prince of Wales's Tipperary Regiment.
• Manchester Regiment—63rd or West Suffolk; also 96th Regiment.
• Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)—64th or 2nd Staffordshire; also 98th Regiment
• York and Lancaster Regiment—65th or 2nd Yorkshire North Riding Regiment; also 84th York and Lancaster Regiment.
• Durham Light Infantry—68th or Durham Regiment.
• Highland Light Infantry—71st and 74th Highland Regiment.
• Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)—72nd; also 78th Highland Regiment.
• Gordon Highlanders—75th Highland Regiment; also 92nd Regiment.
• Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders—79th Regiment of Cameron Highlanders.
• Royal Irish Rifles—83rd Regiment; also Royal County Down Regiment.
• Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)—87th or Prince of Wales's Own Irish Regiment; also 89th Regiment.
• Connaught Rangers—88th Regiment or Connaught Rangers; also 94th Regiment.
• Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)—91st Regiment; also 93rd Regiment.
• Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)—100th or His Royal Highness the Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment.
• Royal Munster Fusiliers—101st or Duke of York's Irish Regiment; also 104th Regiment.
• Royal Dublin Fusiliers—102nd Regiment.
• Rifle Brigade—95th Regiment.

Other Units:

Royal Marine Artillery.
Royal Marine Infantry.
Army Service Corps.
Royal Army Medical Corps.
Army Veterinary Corps.
Army Ordnance Corps.
Army Pay Corps.