The Volunteer Infantry of the British Army

The Battalions of the Territorial Force (TF) in 1914

These were the 208 battalions at the outbreak of the Great War. When the war started the TF was doubled. All the battalions below were renumbered and second line battalions were created, the numbering being e.g. 1/6^th Battalion and 2/6^th Battalion. Later a third line (3/6^th Battalion, later renamed 6^th (Reserve) Battalion) and sometimes more battalions were raised. These are not in this list, badges were the same as the original battalion.

For reasons of space the battallions of a regiment are grouped by badge and not according to their numerical sequence.


	Infantry Battalion,		The Honourable Artillery Company (TF)


	4^th (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Battalion, 5^th (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Battalion,		The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (TF)
	6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion, 9^th (Highlanders) Battalion, 10^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (TF)
	5^th Battalion,		The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th (The Weald of Kent) Battalion,		The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Northumberland Fusiliers (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion,		The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (TF)
	6^th (Rifle) Battalion,
	7^th Battalion, 9^th Battalion,
	8^th (Irish) Battalion,
	10^th (Scottish) Battalion,
	7^th (Isle of Man) Volunteer Battalion,


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Norfolk Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Lincolnshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Devonshire Regiment (TF)
	5^th (Prince of Wales’s) Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Devonshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Suffolk Regiment (TF)


	1^st Battalion,		The Cambridgeshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion,		The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (TF)
	7^th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion,
	8^th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion,


	4^th Battalion,		The East Yorkshire Regiment (TF)
	5^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The East Yorkshire Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion,		The Bedfordshire Regiment (TF)


	1^st Battalion,		The Hertfordshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Leicestershire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Lancashire Fusiliers (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Royal Scots Fusiliers (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th (Earl of Chester’s) Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Cheshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th (Denbighshire) Battalion, 5^th (Flintshire) Battalion, 6^th (Carnarvonshire & Anglesey) Battalion, 7^th (Merioneth & Montgomery) Battalion,		The Royal Welsh Fusiliers (TF)


	The Brecknockshire Battalion,		The South Wales Borderers (TF)


	1^st (Rifle) Battalion,		The Monmouthshire Regiment (TF)
	2^nd Battalion,
	3^rd Battalion,


	4^th (The Border) Battalion, 5^th (Dumfries & Galloway) Battalion,		The King’s Own Scottish Borderers (TF)


	5^th Battalion,		The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (TF)
	6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (TF)


	4^th (City of Bristol) Battalion,		The Gloucestershire Regiment (TF)
	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion,		The Gloucestershire Regiment (TF)


	7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Worcestershire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The East Lancashire Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion,		The East Surrey Regiment (TF)
	6^th Battalion,		The East Surrey Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) (TF)


	4^th (Cumberland and Westmorland) Battalion,		The Border Regiment (TF)
	5^th (Cumberland) Battalion,		The Border Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 6^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Royal Sussex Regiment (TF)
	5^th (Cinque Ports) Battalion,		The Royal Sussex Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Hampshire Regiment (TF)
	6^th (Duke of Connaught’s Own) Battalion,
	7^th Battalion,
	8^th (Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice’s) Battalion,
	9^th (Cyclist) Battalion,


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion,		The South Staffordshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Dorsetshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) (TF)
	5^th Battalion,


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th (Glamorgan) Battalion,		The Welsh Regiment (TF)
	7^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Welsh Regiment (TF)


	4^th (City of Dundee) Battalion, 5^th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion, 6^th (Perthshire) Battalion, 7^th (Fife) Battalion,		The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (TF)
	The Buckinghamshire Battalion,		The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Essex Regiment (TF)
	8^th (Cyclist) Battalion,		The Essex Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (TF)
	7^th (Robin Hood) Battalion,


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Northamptonshire Regiment (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry) (TF)


	1^st Battalion,		The Herefordshire Regiment (TF)


	7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion, 9^th Battalion,		The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) (TF)
	10^th Battalion,		The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion, 8^th (Ardwick) Battalion, 9^th Battalion, 10^th Battalion,		The Manchester Regiment (TF)
	7^th Battalion,		The Manchester Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion,		The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) (TF)


	4^th (Hallamshire) Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The York and Lancaster Regiment (TF)


	5^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion, 9^th Battalion,		The Durham Light Infantry (TF)
	6^th Battalion,		The Durham Light Infantry (TF)


	5^th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, 7^th (Blythswood) Battalion, 8^th (Lanark) Battalion,		The Highland Light Infantry (TF)
	6^th (City of Glasgow) Battalion,
	9^th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion,


	4^th (Ross Highland) Battalion, 6^th (Morayshire) Battalion,		The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s) (TF)
	5^th (The Sutherland and Caithness) Battalion,


	4^th Battalion, 5^th (Buchan and Formartin) Battalion, 6^th (Banff and Donside) Battalion, 7^th (Deeside Highland) Battalion,		The Gordon Highlanders (TF)


	4^th Battalion,		The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (TF)


	5^th (Renfrewshire) Battalion, 6^th (Renfrewshire) Battalion, 7^th Battalion, 9^th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion,		Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) (TF)
	8^th (The Argyllshire) Battalion,		Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) (TF)


	1^st (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers) 2^nd (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers) 3^rd (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers) 4^th (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers)		The London Regiment (TF)
	5^th (City of London) Battalion, (London Rifle Brigade)
	6^th (City of London) Battalion, (Rifles)
	7^th (City of London) Battalion,
	8^th (City of London) Battalion, (Post Office Rifles)
	9^th (County of London) Battalion, (Queen Victoria’s Rifles)
	10^th(County of London) Battalion, (Hackney Regiment)
	11^th (County of London) Battalion, (Finsbury Rifles)
	12^th (County of London) Battalion, (The Rangers)
	13^th (County of London) Battalion, (Kensington)
	14^th (County of London) Battalion, (London Scottish)
	15^th (County of London) Battalion, (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles)
	16^th (County of London) Battalion, (Queen’s Westminster Rifles)
	17^th (County of London) Battalion, (Poplar and Stepney Rifles)
	18^th (County of London) Battalion, (London Irish Rifles)
	19^th (County of London) Battalion, (St. Pancras)
	20^th (County of London) Battalion, (Blackheath and Woolwich)
	21^th (County of London) Battalion, (First Surrey Rifles)
	22^nd (County of London) Battalion, (The Queen’s) 24^th (County of London) Battalion, (The Queen’s)
	23^th (County of London) Battalion,
	25^th (County of London) Battalion, (Cyclists)
	28^th (County of London) Battalion, (Artists’ Rifles)


	The Inns of Court Officers Training Corps (TF)


	The Northern Cyclist Battalion (TF)
	The Highland Cyclist Battalion (TF)
	The Kent Cyclist Battalion (TF)
	The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion (TF)