The Regular Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Regiments until 1751

The Seven Years’ War

The American War of Independence

The War of the Coalitions and the Napoleonic Wars

From the Napoleonic Wars until the Great War

The Regiments in 1880

The Regiments in 1900

The Regiments raised during the Second Boer War

The Regiments in 1914

The Reorganisation in 1922

The Regiments in 1939

The Regiments raised during World War II

Changes from 1958 to 1971

The Regiments in 1971

Options for Change: 1992 and 1993


The Regiments in 1994

There were now eleven units in the Household Cavalry and the Royal Armoured corps. As the 2003 Defence White Paper titled Delivering Security in a Changing World did not influence this list, it is valid until the reductions of 2014/15.

Contents
- The Household Cavalry -
- The Royal Armoured Corps -
 

- The Household Cavalry -
 
The two regiments in the Household Cavalry kept their own identity
and cap badges, but the common cap badge is shown here.
 
HC The Houshold Cavalry Regiment
 

 
- The Royal Armoured Corps -
RAC
 
 
QDG 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
 
 
RSDG The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
(Carabiniers and Greys)
 
 
RDG The Royal Dragoon Guards
 
 
QRH The Queen’s Royal Hussars
(The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish)
 
 
9-12RL The 9th/12th Royal Lancers
(Prince of Wales’s)
 
 
KRH The King’s Royal Hussars
 
 
LD The Light Dragoons
 
 
QRL The Queen’s Royal Lancers
 
 
RTC 1st Royal Tank Regiment
 
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
 

The Regiments in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments