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

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

- The Household Cavalry -
 
HC
 
 
LG The Life Guards
 
 
Blues The Blues and Royals
(Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
 

- The Royal Armoured Corps -
 
RAC
 
 
QDG 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
 
 
RSDG The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
(Carabiniers and Greys)
 
 
4-7DG 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
 
 
5IDG 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
 
 
QOH The Queen’s Own Hussars
 
 
QRIH The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars
 
 
9-12RL 9th/12th Royal Lancers
(Prince of Wales’s)
 
 
RH The Royal Hussars
(Prince of Wales’s Own)
 
 
13-18H 13th/18th Royal Hussars
(Queen Mary’s Own)
 
 
14-20H 14th/20th King’s Hussars
 
 
15-19H 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars
 
 
16-5L 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers
 
 
17L 17th/21st Lancers
 
 
RTR 1st Royal Tank Regiment
 
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
 
3rd Royal Tank Regiment
 
4th Royal Tank Regiment
 

Options for Change: 1992 and 1993

The Regiments in 1994

The Regiments in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments