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List of regiments

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  1. 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot
  2. 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot
  3. 3rd (East Kent, The Buff's) Regiment of Foot
  4. 4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
  5. 5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  6. 6th (Royal First Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
  7. 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  8. 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
  9. 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
  10. 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
  11. 11th (North Devon) Regiment of Foot
  12. 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
  13. 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  14. 14th (Buckinghamshire) (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
  15. 15th (York, East Riding) Regiment of Foot
  16. 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
  17. 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
  18. 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  19. 19th (1st York, North Riding) (Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
  20. 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
  21. 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  22. 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
  23. 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  24. 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
  25. 25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
  26. 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot
  27. 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
  28. 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
  29. 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
  30. 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
  31. 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
  32. 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  33. 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
  34. 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
  35. 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
  36. 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
  37. 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
  38. 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
  39. 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
  40. 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
  41. 41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot
  42. 42nd (Royal Highland, The Black Watch) Regiment of Foot
  43. 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  44. 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
  45. 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
  46. 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
  47. 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
  48. 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
  49. 49th (Hertfordshire) (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
  50. 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot
  51. 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  52. 52nd (Oxfordshire) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  53. 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
  54. 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
  55. 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
  56. 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
  57. 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
  58. 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
  59. 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
  60. 60th (King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
  61. 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
  62. 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
  63. 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
  64. 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
  65. 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
  66. 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
  67. 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
  68. 68th (Durham) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  69. 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
  70. 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
  71. 71st (Highland) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  72. 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  73. 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
  74. 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  75. 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
  76. 76th Regiment of Foot
  77. 77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regiment of Foot
  78. 78th (Highlanders) (Ross-shire Buffs) Regiment of Foot
  79. 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  80. 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
  81. 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
  82. 82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
  83. 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
  84. 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
  85. 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  86. 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
  87. 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  88. 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  89. 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
  90. 90th (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  91. 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  92. 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  93. 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
  94. 94th Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  95. 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
  96. 96th Regiment of Foot
  97. 97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
  98. 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
  99. 99th (Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot
  100. 100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  101. 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  102. 102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  103. 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  104. 104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  105. 105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  106. 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  107. 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  108. 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment of Foot
  109. 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment of Foot† 1922 Ireland
  110. Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)

Regimental lineages

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1880[1] 1881 Childers Reforms[1] 1921 Name changes 1957 Defence White Paper 1966 Defence White Paper 1990 Options for Change 2003 Delivering Security in a Changing World
1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The Royal Regiment of Scotland
25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot The King's Own Borderers
renamed in 1887:
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Royal Scots Fusiliers The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
71st (Highland) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot The Highland Light Infantry
renamed in 1923:
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
42nd (Royal Highland, The Black Watch) Regiment of Foot The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs)
renamed on 22 November 1881:
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross–shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)[2]
The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
78th (Highlanders) (Ross-shire Buffs) Regiment of Foot
79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot The Gordon Highlanders
92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders)
renamed on 2 June 1882:
Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)[3]
93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment The Queen's Regiment The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot The East Surrey Regiment
70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
3rd (East Kent, The Buff's) Regiment of Foot The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
renamed in 1935:
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
97th (Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot The Royal Sussex Regiment
107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot
57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regiment of Foot
37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The Hampshire Regiment
renamed in 1946:
The Royal Hampshire Regiment
67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
4th (King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) The King's Own Royal Border Regiment The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot The Border Regiment
55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot The King's (Liverpool Regiment) King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester)
63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot The Manchester Regiment
96th Regiment of Foot
30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot The East Lancashire Regiment The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
renamed in 1938:
The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Northumberland Fusiliers
renamed in 1935:
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
6th (Royal First Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
renamed in 1963:
The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot The Lancashire Fusiliers
9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot The Norfolk Regiment
renamed in 1935:
The Royal Norfolk Regiment
1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) The Royal Anglian Regiment
12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot The Suffolk Regiment
10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot The Lincolnshire Regiment
renamed in 1946:
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot The Northamptonshire Regiment
58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot
16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot The Bedfordshire Regiment
renamed in 1919:
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot The Essex Regiment
56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot The Leicestershire Regiment
renamed in 1946:
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
14th (Buckinghamshire) (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
15th (York, East Riding) Regiment of Foot The East Yorkshire Regiment
renamed in 1935:
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
19th (1st York, North Riding) (Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
renamed in 1902:
Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
76th Regiment of Foot
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot The Cheshire Regiment The Mercian Regiment
29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot The Worcestershire Regiment The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
renamed in 1902:
The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot The South Staffordshire Regiment The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment) The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Royal Welch Fusiliers The Royal Welsh
24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot The South Wales Borderers Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
41st (The Welsh) Regiment of Foot The Welsh Regiment The Welch Regiment
69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) The Royal Irish Regiment
108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment of Foot
83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot The Royal Irish Rifles The Royal Ulster Rifles
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)
89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot
The Ulster Defence Regiment
11th (North Devon) Regiment of Foot The Devonshire Regiment The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment The Rifles
39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot The Dorsetshire Regiment
54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment) The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry The Light Infantry
32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
85th (Bucks Volunteers) (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
68th (Durham) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot The Durham Light Infantry
106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot The Gloucestershire Regiment The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
49th (Hertfordshire) (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Foot Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment) The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
99th (Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot
43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
renamed in 1908:
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) The Royal Green Jackets
52nd (Oxfordshire) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
60th (King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot The King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade) 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade
18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot The Royal Irish Regiment disbanded 1922
26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
renamed on 22 November 1881:
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)[4]
disbanded 1968
90th (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot The York and Lancaster Regiment disbanded 1968
84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment of Foot The Connaught Rangers disbanded 1922
94th Regiment of Foot
100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) disbanded 1922
109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment of Foot
101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Royal Munster Fusiliers disbanded 1922
104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot The Royal Dublin Fusiliers disbanded 1922
103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
  1. ^ a b The London Gazette, Page 3300-3301 (1 July 1881). "Childers Reform". No. 24992. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 October 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ The London Gazette, Page 5713 (22 November 1881). "War Office Memorandum". No. 25040. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 October 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ The London Gazette, Page 2590 (2 June 1882). "War Office, Pall Mall". No. 25114. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 October 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ The London Gazette, Page 5713 (22 November 1881). "War Office Memorandum". No. 25040. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 October 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)