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 Battalions in 1914

The Battalions raised during the Great War

The Changes between the World Wars

The Regiments in 1939

The Regiments raised during World War II

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

After the implementation of the 2003 Defence White Paper titled Delivering Security in a Changing World, this list is still valid at the beginning of 2011.

 
GG 1st Battalion,
 
Nijmegen Company,
accolade The Grenadier Guards
 
 
CG 1st Battalion,
 
No 7 Company,
accolade The Coldstream Guards
 
 
SG 1st Battalion,
 
F Company,
accolade The Scots Guards
 
 
IG 1st Battalion, accolade The Irish Guards
 
 
WG 1st Battalion, accolade The Welsh Guards
 
 
SCOTS The Royal Scots Borderers,
1st Battalion
 
The Royal Highland Fusiliers,
2nd Battalion
 
The Black Watch,
3rd Battalion
 
The Highlanders,
4th Battalion
 
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
5th Battalion
accolade
accolade
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
 
 
POWRRQH 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
accolade The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
(Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)
 
 
LANCS 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
 
accolade The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
(King’s, Lancashire and Border)
 
 
RRF 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
accolade The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
 
 
R.ANGLIAN 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
accolade The Royal Anglian Regiment
 
 
YORKS 1st Battalion,
(Prince of Wales’s Own)
 
2nd Battalion,
(Green Howards)
 
3rd Battalion,
(Duke of Wellington’s)
accolade The Yorkshire Regiment
(14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
 
 
MERCIAN 1st Battalion,
(Cheshire)
 
2nd Battalion,
(Worcesters and Foresters
 
3rd Battalion,
(Staffords)
accolade The Mercian Regiment
 
 
R.WELSH 1st Battalion,
(Royal Welch Fusiliers)
 
2nd Battalion,
(Royal Regiment of Wales)
accolade The Royal Welsh
 
 
R.IRISH 1st Battalion, accolade The Royal Irish Regiment
(27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th
and the Ulster Defence Regiment)
 
 
PARA 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
 
3rd Battalion,
accolade The Parachute Regiment
 
 
RGR 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
accolade The Royal Gurkha Rifles
 
 
RIFLES 1st Battalion,
 
2nd Battalion,
 
3rd Battalion,
 
4th Battalion,
 
5th Battalion,
accolade The Rifles
 
 
SAS 22nd Special Air Service Regiment
RG The Royal Gibraltar Regiment
 

The Regiments in 2023

Alphabetic List of the Regiments