The Regular Infantry of the British Army

The Regiments in 1881

These are the regiments after the implementation of the Childers reforms.

The 1881 reforms did not change the number of battalions: 150. The Grenadier Guards had three, the Coldstream and the Scots Guards each has two, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps and The Rifle brigade each had four, the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders had one and all other regiments had two.

	The Grenadier Guards
	The Coldstream Guards
	The Scots Guards
	The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
	The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
	The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
	The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
	The Northumberland Fusiliers
	The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
	The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
	The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
	The Norfolk Regiment
	The Lincolnshire Regiment
	The Devonshire Regiment
	The Suffolk Regiment
	Prince Albert’s Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment)
	The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
	The East Yorkshire Regiment
	The Bedfordshire Regiment
	The Leicestershire Regiment
	The Royal Irish Regiment
	The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
	The Lancashire Fusiliers
	The Royal Scots Fusiliers
	The Cheshire Regiment
	The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
	The South Wales Borderers
	The King’s Own Borderers
	The Cameronians (Scots Rifles)
	The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
	The Gloucestershire Regiment
	The Worcestershire Regiment
	The East Lancashire Regiment
	The East Surrey Regiment
	The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
	The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
	The Border Regiment
	The Royal Sussex Regiment
	The Hampshire Regiment
	The South Staffordshire Regiment
	The Dorsetshire Regiment
	The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
	The Welsh Regiment
	The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
	The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
	The Essex Regiment
	The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
	The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
	The Northamptonshire Regiment
	The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire Regiment)
	The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
	The King’s Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
	The King’s Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
	The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
	The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
	The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment)
	The Manchester Regiment
	The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
	The York and Lancaster Regiment
	The Durham Light Infantry
	The Highland Light Infantry
	The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs)
	The Gordon Highlanders
	The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
	The Royal Irish Rifles
	Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
	The Connaught Rangers
	Princess Louise’s (Sutherland & Argyll Highlanders)
	The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
	The Royal Munster Fusiliers
	The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
	The Prince Consort’s Own (Rifle Brigade)
	The West India Regiment