The Volunteer Infantry of the British Army

The Battalions of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939

This is the list of the remaining TA infantry battalions before the doubling of the TA in april 1939.

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


	4^th/5^th (Queen’s Edinburgh) Battalion, (52^nd Searchlight Regiment)		The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (TA)
	7^th/9^th (Highlanders) Battalion,		The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (TA)


	4^th Battalion, (63^rd Searchlight Regiment) 6^th (Bermondsey) Battalion, 7^th (Southwark) Battalion,		The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (TA)
	5^th Battalion,		The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (TA)


	4^th/5^th Battalion,		The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (TA)


	5^th Battalion,		The King’s Own Regiment (Lancaster) (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, (53^rd Searchlight Regiment) 7^th Battalion,		The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (TA)


	7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (TA)


	8^th (1^st City of London) Battalion, 9^th (2^nd City of London) Battalion, 10^th (3^rd City of London) Battalion, (69^th Searchlight Regiment)		The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (TA)


	5^th Battalion,		The King’s Regiment (Liverpool) (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Royal Norfolk Regiment (TA)


	4^th Battalion,		The Lincolnshire Regiment (TA)


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


	4^th Battalion,		The Suffolk Regiment (TA)


	1^st Battalion,		The Cambridgeshire Regiment (TA)


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


	5^th Battalion,		The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TA)


	4^th Battalion,		The East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York’s Own) (TA)


	5^th Battalion,		The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA)


	1^st Battalion,		The Hertfordshire Regiment (TA)


	5^th Battalion,		The Leicestershire Regiment (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion,		The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) (TA)


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


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


	4^th/5^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Cheshire Regiment (TA)


	4^th (Denbighshire) Battalion, 5^th (Flintshire) Battalion, 6^th (Caernavonshire and Anglesey) Battalion, 7^th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion,		The Royal Welch Fusiliers (TA)


	1^st (Rifle) Battalion, (58^th Searchlight Regiment)		The Monmouthshire Regiment (TA)
	2^nd Battalion,
	3^rd (Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire) Battalion,


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


	5^th/8^th Battalion, (56^th Searchlight Regiment) 6^th Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (TA)


	4^th (City of Bristol) Battalion, (66^th Searchlight Regiment) 5^th Battalion,		The Gloucestershire Regiment


	7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Worcestershire Regiment


	4^th/5^th Battalion,		The East Lancashire Regiment


	6^th Battalion,		The East Surrey Regiment (TA)


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


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


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


	4^th Battalion,		The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA)
	5^th (Cinque Ports) Battalion,		The Royal Sussex Regiment (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th/7^th Battalion,		The Hampshire Regiment (TA)


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


	4^th Battalion,		The Dorsetshire Regiment (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, (61^st Searchlight Regiment)		The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) (TA)


	4^th (Carmarthenshire) Battalion, 5^th (Glamorgan) Battalion, 6^th (Glamorgan) Battalion, (67^th Searchlight Regiment)		The Welch Regiment (TA)


	4^th/5^th (Dundee and Angus) Battalion, 6^th/7^th (Perth and Fife) Battalion,		The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (TA)


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


	4^th Battalion, 5^th Battalion, 6^th Battalion,		The Essex Regiment (TA)


	5^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion,		The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (TA)


	4^th Battalion, (62^nd Searchlight Regiment) 5^th Battalion,		The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (TA)


	5^th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion,		The Northamptonshire Regiment (TA)


	4^th Battalion, 5^th (Hackney) Battalion,		The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)


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


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


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


	1^st Battalion,		The Herefordshire Regiment (TA)


	7^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion, 9^th Battalion, (60^th Searchlight Regiment)		The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (TA)
	Prinses Louises’s Kensington Regiment,		The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (TA)


	Queen Victoria’s Rifles,		The King’s Royal Rifle Corps (TA)
	The Rangers,
	The Queen’s Westminsters,


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


	5^th Battalion, 8^th (Ardwick) Battalion, 9^th Battalion,		The Manchester Regiment (TA)


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


	The Hallamshire Battalion,		The York and Lancaster Regiment


	5^th Battalion, 8^th Battalion, 9^th Battalion,		The Durham Light Infantry
	6^th Battalion,		The Durham Light Infantry


	5^th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, 6^th (City of Glasgow) Battalion,		The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) (TA)
	9^th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion,


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


	4^th (The City of Aberdeen) Battalion, 5^th/7^th Battalion, 6^th (Banff and Donside) Battalion,		The Gordon Highlanders (TA)
	The London Scottish,		The Gordon Highlanders (TA)


	4^th Battalion,		The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (TA)
	The Liverpool Scottish,		The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (TA)


	London Irish Rifles,		The Royal Ulster Rifles


	5^th/6^th (Renfrewshire) Battalion, 7^th Battalion,		The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) (TA)
	8^th Battalion,


	The London Rifle Brigade,		The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) (TA)
	The Tower Hamlets Rifles,
	The Artists’ Rifles,