The Regular Infantry of the British Army

The Brigades in 1963

The brigades and the regiments that were part of them.

	The Brigade of Guards		The Grenadier Guards
			The Coldstream Guards
			The Scots Guards
			The Irish Guards
			The Welsh Guards
	The Lowland Brigade		The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) The King’s Own Scottish Borderers The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
	The Home Counties Brigade		The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment The Queen’s Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
	The Lancastrian Brigade		The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment The King’s Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) The Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
	The Fusilier Brigade		The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) The Lancashire Fusiliers
	The Forester Brigade		The Royal Warwickshire Regiment The Royal Leicestershire Regiment The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
	The East Anglian Brigade		1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester’s Own Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
	The Wessex Brigade		The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment The Royal Hampshire Regiment The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
	The Light Infantry Brigade		The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry The Durham Light Infantry
	The Yorkshire Brigade		The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) The York and Lancaster Regiment
	The Mercian Brigade		The Cheshire Regiment The Worcestershire Regiment The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)
	The Welsh Brigade		The Royal Welch Fusiliers The South Wales Borderers The Welch Regiment
	The North Irish Brigade		The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Ulster Rifles The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
	The Highland Brigade		The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) The Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) The Gordon Highlanders The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s)
	The Green Jackets Brigade		1st Green Jackets (43rd & 52nd) 2nd Green Jackets, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade
	The Parachute Regiment
	The Brigade of Gurkhas		2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
			6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles
			7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Gurkha Rifles
			10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles