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 edit
Household Cavalry edit
Cavalry of the Line edit
Dragoon Guards edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Infantry edit
Foot Guards edit
Line Infantry (In order of precedence) edit
- Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
- Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
- Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
- King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
- Northumberland Fusiliers
- Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
- King's (Liverpool Regiment)
- Norfolk Regiment - Royal title in 1935 as part of Silver Jubilee
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- Devonshire Regiment
- Suffolk Regiment
- Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
- Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- Bedfordshire Regiment
- Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- The Royal Irish Regiment
- Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
- Lancashire Fusiliers
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- Cheshire Regiment
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- South Wales Borderers
- The King's Own Borderers
- The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
- Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- Gloucestershire Regiment
- Worcestershire Regiment
- East Lancashire Regiment
- East Surrey Regiment
- Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
- Border Regiment
- Royal Sussex Regiment
- Hampshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service
- South Staffordshire Regiment
- Dorsetshire Regiment
- Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
- Welsh Regiment
- Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
- Oxfordshire Light Infantry
- Essex Regiment
- Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
- Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- Northamptonshire Regiment
- Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment)
- Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
- The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
- The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
- The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment
- King's Royal Rifle Corps
- The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
- Manchester Regiment
- The (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment
- The York and Lancaster Regiment
- Durham Light Infantry
- Highland Light Infantry
- Seaforth Highlanders (Duke of Albany's/Ross-shire Buffs)
- Gordon Highlanders
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- Royal Irish Rifles
- Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
- Connaught Rangers
- Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- Royal Munster Fusiliers
- Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade
- 1st West India Regiment
- 2nd West India Regiment