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 1971

The Regiments in 1971

Options for Change: 1992 and 1993

Options for Change was a restructuring of the British Armed Forces in 1990, aimed at cutting defence spending following the end of the Cold War. In the Royal Armoured Corps this lead to eight amalgamations resulting in eleven units left.

Titles in 1992			Titles in 1994
The Life Guards	}	1992:	The Household Cavalry Regiment
The Blues and Royals	}	1992:	The Household Cavalry Regiment
1^st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards	→		1^st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	→		The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
4^th/7^th Royal Dragoon Guards	}	1993:	The Royal Dragoon Guards
5^th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards	}	1993:	The Royal Dragoon Guards
The Queen’s Own Hussars	}	1993:	The Queen’s Royal Hussars
The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars	}	1993:	The Queen’s Royal Hussars
The 9^th/12^th Royal Lancers	→		The 9^th/12^th Royal Lancers
The Royal Hussars	}	1993:	The King’s Royal Hussars
14^th/20^th King’s Hussars	}	1993:	The King’s Royal Hussars
13^th/18^th Royal Hussars	}	1992:	The Light Dragoons
15^th/19^th The King’s Royal Hussars	}	1992:	The Light Dragoons
16^th/5^th The Queen’s Royal Lancers	}	1993:	The Queen’s Royal Lancers
17^th/21^st Lancers	}	1993:	The Queen’s Royal Lancers
1^st Royal Tank Regiment	}	1993:	1^st Royal Tank Regiment
4^th Royal Tank Regiment	}	1993:	1^st Royal Tank Regiment
2^nd Royal Tank Regiment	}	1992:	2^nd Royal Tank Regiment
3^rd Royal Tank Regiment	}	1992:	2^nd Royal Tank Regiment

The Regiments in 1994

The Regiments in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments