The Regular Infantry of the British Army

The regiments until 1751

The Seven Years War

The American War of Independence

The Wars of the Coalitions and the Napoleonic Wars

From the Napoleonic Wars to the 1881 Reorganisation

The Regiments in 1880

The Reorganisation of 1881

The Regiments in 1881

The Regiments raised during the Second Boer War

The Regiments in 1914

The Battalions raised during the Great War

The Changes between the World Wars

The Regiments in 1939

Changes from 1958 to 1962

The Brigades in 1963

Changes from 1964 to 1970

The Regiments in 1971

Options for change: 1992 to 1994

The Regiments in 1995

Changes from 2003 to 2007

The Regiments in 2008

The Regiments in 2023


Alphabetical List of the Regiments

1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk)
1st Green Jackets (43rd & 52nd)
1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots)
1st West India Regiment
2nd (The Queen’s Royal) Regiment of Foot
2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester’s Own Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
2nd Green Jackets, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
2nd West India Regiment
3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs)
3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot)
3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade
4th (The King’s Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Fusiliers
6th (Royal Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles
7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Gurkha Rifles
7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers)
8th (The King’s) Regiment of Foot
9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles
11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert’s Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot
14th (Prince of Wales’s Own) Regiment of Foot
15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot
16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding Princess of Wales’s Own) Regiment of Foot
20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
22nd Special Air Service Regiment
23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
25th (King’s Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot
27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
33rd (The Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment of Foot
34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot
36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot
42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (Black Watch)
43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot
45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot
47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot
50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot
51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot or The Kings Own Light Infantry
52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot
56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
58th (Ruthlandshire) Regiment of Foot
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
60th (The King’s Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
65th (2nd Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot
66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot
71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
72nd (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot
74st (Highland) Regiment of Foot
75st (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot
76th Regiment of Foot
77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (or Ross-shire Buffs)
79th (The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
82nd (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot
84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
85th, or The King’s Regiment of Light Infantry (Bucks Volunteers)
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
87th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Fusiliers
88th Regiment of Foot
89th (Princess Victoria’s) Regiment of Foot
90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry)
91st (Princess Louise’s Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
94th Regiment of Foot
95th (The Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foot
96th Regiment of Foot
97th (Earl of Ulster’s) Regiment of Foot
98th (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment of Foot
99th (Duke of Edinburgh’s) Regiment of Foot
100th (Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot
101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)
103rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)
104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)
105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry)
107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)
108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry)
109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)
The Parachute Regiment
Anson Battalion
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s)
Benbow Battalion
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
Brigade of Guards
Brigade of Gurkhas
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Cheshire Regiment
Coldstream Guards
Collingwood Battalion
Cyprus Regiment
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
Drake Battalion
Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border)
Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)
Durham Light Infantry
East Anglian Brigade
Forester Brigade
Fusilier Brigade
Gibraltar Regiment
Glider Pilot Regiment
Gloucestershire Regiment
Gordon Highlanders
Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment)
Green Jackets Brigade
Grenadier Guards
Guards Machine Gun Regiment
Hawke Battalion
Highland Brigade
Highland Regiment
Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
Home Counties Brigade
Hood Battalion
Household Battalion
Howe Battalion
Irish Guards
King’s Own Royal Border Regiment
King’s Own Scottish Borderers
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
King’s Regiment
King’s Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool)
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Lancashire Fusiliers
Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)
Lancastrian Brigade
Light Infantry
Light Infantry Brigade
Long Range Dessert Group
Lowland Brigade
Lowland Regiment
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
Mercian Brigade
Mercian Regiment
Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords)
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
Nelson Battalion
Newfoundland Regiment
No. 1 Demolition Squadron, Popski’s Private Army
North Irish Brigade
Palestine Regiment
Parachute Regiment
Prince Consort’s Own Rifle Brigade
Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)
Queen’s Lancashire Regiment
Queen’s Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
Queen’s Regiment
Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment
Raiding Support Regiment
Ranger Regiment
Rifles
Royal Anglian Regiment
Royal Eastern Reserve Regiment
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Royal Gibraltar Regiment
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
Royal Green Jackets
Royal Guards Reserve Regiment
Royal Gurkha Rifles
Royal Hampshire Regiment
Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
Royal Home Counties Reserve Regiment
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
Royal Irish Fusiliers Reserve Regiment
Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)
Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th and the Ulster Defence Regiment)
Royal Irish Reserve Regiment
Royal Lancashire Reserve Regiment
Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Royal Northern Reserve Regiment
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Royal Regiment of Scotland
Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
Royal Rifles Reserve Regiment
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Royal Scottish Reserve Regiment
Royal Southern Reserve Regiment
Royal Sussex Regiment
Royal Ulster Rifles
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Royal Welsh
Royal Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
Scots Guards
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
South Wales Borderers
Special Air Service Regiment
Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)
Ulster Defence Regiment
V Force
Welch Regiment
Welsh Brigade
Welsh Guards
Wessex Brigade
West African Regiment
West India Regiment
Worcestershire Regiment
Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
York and Lancaster Regiment
Yorkshire Brigade
Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)