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 of 1922

The Regiments in 1939

The Regiments raised during World War II

Changes from 1958 to 1990

The Regiments in 1971

Options for Change: 1992 and 1993

The Regiments in 1994

The Regiments in 2023


Alphabetical List of the Regiments

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1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards
1st (Royal) Dragoons
1st King’s Dragoon Guards
1st Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
1st Regiment of Life Guards
1st Royal Tank Regiment
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
1st The Royal Dragoons
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays)
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
2nd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
2nd Regiment of Life Guards
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
3rd (King’s Own) Hussars
3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards
3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards)
3rd Royal Tank Regiment
3rd The King’s Own Hussars
4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
4th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
4th Royal Tank Regiment
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoons Guards
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
5th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers)
7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars
7th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards
7th Queen’s Own Hussars
8th (The King’s Royal Irish) Hussars
8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars
9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)
10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Royal Hussars
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)
11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own)
12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)
13th Hussars
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)
14th (King’s) Hussars
14th/20th King’s Hussars
15th (Scottish) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
15th (The King’s) Hussars
15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars
16th (The Queen’s) Lancers
16th/5th Lancers
16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers
17th (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers
17th/21st Lancers
18th (Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars
18th Hussars
19th (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars
19th Hussars
20th Hussars
21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers
21st Hussars
22nd Dragoons
23rd Hussars
24th Lancers
25th Dragoons
26th Hussars
27th Lancers
38th (Welsh) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
43th (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
44th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
45th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
46th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
49th (West Riding) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
52nd (Lowland) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
53rd (Welsh) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
54th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
56th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
59th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
61st Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
81st (West African) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
82nd (West African) Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
141st Regiment RAC
142nd (Sufolk) Regiment RAC
143rd Regiment RAC (Lancashire Fusiliers)
144th Regiment RAC
145th Regiment RAC
146th Regiment RAC
147th Regiment RAC
148th Regiment RAC
149th Regiment RAC
150th Regiment RAC
151st Regiment RAC
152nd Regiment RAC
153rd Regiment RAC
154th Regiment RAC
155th Regiment RAC
156th Regiment RAC
157th Regiment RAC
158th Regiment RAC
159th Regiment RAC
160th Regiment RAC
161st Regiment RAC
162nd Regiment RAC
163rd Regiment RAC
Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Houshold Cavalry Regiment
King’s Royal Hussars
Life Guards
Light Dragoons
Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
Queen’s Own Hussars
Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish)
Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars
Queen’s Royal Lancers
Royal Dragoon Guards
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)
Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth’s Own)
Royal Reserve Regiment of Dragoon Guards
Royal Reserve Regiment of Dragoons
Royal Reserve Regiment of Hussars
Royal Reserve Regiment of Lancers
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
Royal Tank Regiment