The Regular Infantry of the British Army

The Regiments in 1939

At the outbreak of World War II the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards each had three battalions, the Scots Guards had two and the Welsh and Irish Guards each had one battalion. All Line regiments had two battalions.

	The Grenadier Guards
	The Coldstream Guards
	The Scots Guards
	The Irish Guards
	The Welsh Guards
	The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
	The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
	The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
	The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
	The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
	The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
	The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
	The King’s Regiment (Liverpool)
	The Royal Norfolk Regiment
	The Lincolnshire Regiment
	The Devonshire Regiment
	The Suffolk Regiment
	The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s)
	The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)
	The East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York’s Own)
	The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
	The Leicestershire Regiment
	The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment)
	The Lancashire Fusiliers
	The Royal Scots Fusiliers
	The Cheshire Regiment
	The Royal Welch Fusiliers
	The South Wales Borderers
	The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
	The Cameronians (Scottish 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 Regiment (West Riding)
	The Border Regiment
	The Royal Sussex Regiment
	The Hampshire Regiment
	The South Staffordshire Regiment
	The Dorsetshire Regiment
	The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)
	The Welch Regiment
	The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
	The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
	The Essex Regiment
	The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
	The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
	The Northamptonshire Regiment
	The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)
	The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment
	The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
	The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
	The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
	The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
	The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s)
	The Manchester Regiment
	The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s)
	The York and Lancaster Regiment
	The Durham Light Infantry
	The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
	The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
	The Gordon Highlanders
	The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
	The Royal Ulster Rifles
	The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
	The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s)
	The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)