The Regular Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Regiments in 1939

At the outbreak of the second World War there were the 22 regiments from the 1922 reorganisation. They belonged either still to the Cavalry or were transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps. The Royal Tank Regiment was also part of the Royal Armoured Corps and it’s several tactical units were still seen as battalions of that Regiment.


	The Life Guards


	The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)


	1^st King’s Dragoon Guards


	The Queen’s Bays (2^nd Dragoon Guards)


	3^rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards)


	4^th/7^th Royal Dragoon Guards


	5^th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards


	1^st The Royal Dragoons


	The Royal Scots Greys (2^nd Dragoons)


	3^rd The King’s Own Hussars


	4^th Queen’s Own Hussars


	7^th Queen’s Own Hussars


	8^th King’s Royal Irish Hussars


	9^th Queen’s Royal Lancers


	10^th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)


	11^th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own)


	12^th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)


	13^th/18^th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)


	14^th/20^th King’s Hussars


	15^th/19^th The King’s Royal Hussars


	16^th/5^th Lancers


	17^th/21^st Lancers


	1^st Battalion, 2^nd Battalion, 3^rd Battalion, 4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Royal Tank Regiment