Register and Index of the 

Regiments and Corps of the

BRITISH ARMY

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

Copyright 1996-2000 by T.F. Mills.
Page created 28 December 1997.
Corrected and updated 12 September 2004
See also:
British
Land Forces
Introduction to
British Regiments
 Numerical Index of British
Regimental Web Sites
Index of Foreign Corps in British Service
and lists of British Army Regiments and Corps in :
Regular Army:
1702 1760 1781 Suppl. 1800 1881 1918 1945 1962 1972 1995 Volunteers:
T.F. 1908 T.A. 1939 TAVR 1969 T.A. 1995

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Regular Army
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Historical and contemporary
unofficial sites
Regular Army
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Biography & personal narratives
Victoria Crosses (biography)
Museums and Chapels
Veterans' associations (and discussion groups)
Re-enactment units 18th century (chiefly
Seven Years' War and American Revolution)
19th century
(Napoleonic and Victorian wars)
20th century
(world wars)
Checklist Items:
Standards, Guidons and Colours
Battle Honours


Adjutant General's Corps
Angus and Dundee Battalion, ACF
Argyle Militia
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) [91st, 93rd] 1881-present
Army Air Corps
Army Apprentices College, Arborfield
Army Catering Corps 1941-1993
Army Commandos
Army Cyclist Corps   1914-1919
Army Legal Service
Army Physical Training Corps
Army School of Education
Artists' Rifles
see also Special Air Service Regiment
Atholl Highlanders
Auxiliary Territorial Service 1938-1949
The Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick's Own) 
Bank of England Volunteers
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment [16th]   1881-1958
Bedfordshire Yeomanry 
Berkshire ACF
The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons 1961-1984
The Berkshire Yeomanry (Hungerford)
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) [42nd, 73rd] 1881-present
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)  1969-
The Border Regiment [34th, 55th] 1881-1959
The British West Indies Regiment 1915-1921
Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) [3rd]   1572-1961
Caithness and Rothesay Fencibles
The Cambridgeshire Regiment
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) [26th, 90th]   1881-1968
The Cheshire Regiment [22nd]   1688-present
The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
Coldstream Guards 1650-present
Commandos
see Army Commandos, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Commandos  
Commissariat Department
The Connaught Rangers [88th, 94th] 1881-1922
Corps of Musicians 
The Corps of Riflemen 1800-1802
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 
Corps of Royal Engineers  1716-present
Corps of Royal Military Police 
The Derbyshire Yeomanry 1794-1957
Devon Yeomanry
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 1958-present
The Devonshire Regiment [11th]   1685-1958
The Dorset Yeomanry  1794-present
The Dorsetshire Regiment [39th, 54th] 1881-1958
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [32nd, 46th] 1881-1959
The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) 1959-1994
The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry 1819-1992
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [33rd, 76th] 1881-present
Durham ACF
The Durham Light Infantry [68th, 106th] 1881-1968
The East and West Riding Regiment 1999-present
The East Lancashire Regiment [30th, 59th] 1881-1958
The East of England Regiment 1999-present
The East Riding Yeomanry
The East Surrey Regiment [31st, 70th] 1881-1959
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) [15th]   1685-1958
The Essex and Suffolk Cyclist Battalion 1908-1911
The Essex Regiment [44th, 56th] 1881-1958
The Essex Yeomanry
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse 1956-present
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry  1907-1937
Flintshire, and Denbighshire Yeomanry
Fusilier Volunteers 1967-1968
General Service Corps
Glamorgan Yeomanry
The Glasgow and Lanarkshire Battalion, ACF
The Glasgow Highlanders
The Glider Pilot Regiment 
The Gloucestershire Regiment [28th, 61st] 1881-1994
The Gordon Highlanders [75th, 92nd] 1881-1994
The Green Howards  (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [19th]   1688-present
Grenadier Guards 1656-present
Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
The Herefordshire Light Infantry
Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry
The Hertfordshire Regiment
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
The Highland Cyclist Battalion 1908-1919
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) [71st, 74th] 1881-1959
The Highland Regiment 1942-1949
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) 1994-present
Home Guard
Honourable Artillery Company  1537-present
Horse Guards 1661-1788
Horse Grenadier Guards 1661-1788
Household Battalion 1916-1918
Household Cavalry Composite Regiment 1882, 1889,
1914
Household Cavalry Regiment 1939-1945
Household Cavalry Regiment 1992-present
The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion  1914-1919
Imperial Camel Corps
Imperial Yeomanry
Infantry [not a corps]
The Inns of Court Regiment
The Inns of Court and City Yeomanry  1961-present
Intelligence Corps 
Irish Guards  1900-present
Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 1961-1973
Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry 1973-pesent
The Kent Cyclists Battalion   1908-1920
King Edward's Horse 1910-1924
The King's and Cheshire Regiment 1999-present
The King's Colonials 1905-1910
The King's German Legion
The King's Own Royal Border Regiment 1959-present
The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) [4th] 1680-1959
The King's Own Scottish Borderers [25th] 1689-present
The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [51st, 105th] 1881-1968
The King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry) 1992-1999
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) [8th]   1685-1958
The King's Regiment 1958-present
The King's Royal Hussars  1992-present
The King's Royal Rifle Corps [60th] 1755-1966
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [53rd, 85th]

1881-1968

Kircudbright Yeomanry Cavalry 1803-1836
Labour Corps 1915-1920
Lanarkshire Yeomanry
The Lancashire Fusiliers [20th] 1688-1968
Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry 
The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) 1958-1970
The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers 1999-present 
Lancastrian Volunteers

1967-1975

Leeds Rifles
Legion of Frontiersmen
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland ACF
The Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry 1957-present
The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own)  1794-1957
The Life Guards 
The Light Dragoons  1992-present
The Light Infantry 1968-present
Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers 1971-1975
Light Infantry Volunteers 1967-1972
Lincolnshire Yeomanry 1901-1920
The Liverpool Scottish
The London Irish Rifles
The London Regiment  1908-1938
The London Regiment 1993-present
London Rifle Brigade 
London Rifle Brigade / Rangers 1950-1966
The London Scottish 1859-present
Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945 
Lothian and Borders Battalion, ACF
The Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry
The Earl of Loudoun's Regiment of Foot 1745-1748
The Lovat Scouts
The Lowland Regiment 1942-1949
The Lowland Volunteers 1995-1999
The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) [47th, 81st] 1881-1970
Machine Gun Corps 1915-1922
Machine Gun Guards 1917-1920
The Manchester Regiment [63rd, 96th] 1881-1958
Mercian Volunteers 1967-1988
de Meuron's Regiment of Foot  1781-1816
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) [57th, 77th] 1881-1966
Military Provost Staff Corps
The Monmouthshire Regiment
Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
New South Wales Corps 1789-1808
Norfolk Yeomanry (The King's Own Royal Regiment)
North Cork Rifles
North Irish Horse  1900-present
North Irish Militia 1967-1978
The North Somerset and Bristol Yeomanry 1956-1971
The North Somerset Yeomanry
The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) [64th, 98th] 1881-1959
The Northamptonshire Regiment [48th, 58th]   1881-1960
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry
The Northern Cyclist Battalion 1908-1919
The Northumberland Hussars
Northumbrian Volunteers 1971-1975
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [43rd, 52nd]

1881-1966

Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars)
The Parachute Regiment
The Pembroke Yeomanry (Castlemartin)
Popski's Private Army  1942-1945
The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) [100th, 109th] 1881-1922
The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire 1958-present
Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment
see also31 Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) 1992-present
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps 
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps 1917-1919
Queen Victoria's Rifles
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) 1685-1959
The Queen's Gurkha Engineers
Queen's Gurkha Signals
The Queen's Lancashire Regiment  1970-present
The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment 1961-1966
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [79th] 1793-1961
The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry 1794-present
The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) 1961-1994
The Queen's Own Hussars 1958-1993
The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry 1956-1999
The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry 1971-1992
The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment [50th, 97th] 1881-1961
The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry 1956-1999
The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars
The Queen's Own Yeomanry  1971-present
The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons 
The Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry  1956-present
The Queen's Regiment 1966-1992
The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) 1993-present
The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars  1958-1993
The Queen's Royal Lancers  1993-present
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) [2nd] 1661-1959
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment 1959-1966
Queen Victoria's Rifles 
The Queen's Westminsters
Raiding Support Regiment
The Rangers
Reconnaissance Corps  1940-1946
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) [95th] 1800-1966
The Rifle Volunteers 1999-present 
Royal Air Force Regiment
The Royal Anglian Regiment  1964-present
Royal Armoured Corps 1939-present
Royal Army Chaplains Department 
Royal Army Dental Corps
Royal Army Educational Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps 
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Army Pay Corps
Royal Army Service Corps  
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Royal Artillery 1716-present
The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)  [49th, 66th] 1881-1959
The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment 1840-1870
Royal Carmarthen Artillery [Militia]
Royal Corps of Signals  1920-present
Royal Corps of Transport 
Royal Devon Yeomanry 1920-present
The Royal Dragoon Guards  1992-present
The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) 1661-1969
The Royal Dublin Fusiliers [102nd, 103rd]   1881-1922
The Royal East Kent Yeomanry (The Duke of Connaught's Own) (Mounted Rifles)
Royal Engineers 1716-present
Royal Field Artillery 1899-1924
Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
Royal Flying Corps
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [7th]   1685-1968
Royal Garrison Artillery 1899-1924
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment
see under Gibraltar
The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment 1994-present
The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
The Royal Green Jackets 1966-present
The Royal Guernsey Militia
The Royal Gurkha Rifles  1994-present
The Royal Hampshire Regiment [37th, 67th] 1881-1992
The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 1959-present
Royal Horse Artillery 1793-present
Royal Horse Guards 
The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)  1969-1992
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [27th, 108th]   1881-1968
Royal Irish Artillery
The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) [87th, 89th]     1881-1968
The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th) 1968-1992
The Royal Irish Rangers 1999-present
The Royal Irish Regiment [18th]   1684-1922
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th
and The Ulster Defence Regiment)
1992-present
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment [17th]   1688-1964
The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment [10th]   1685-1960
Royal Logistic Corps 
Royal Marine Artillery
Royal Marine Light Infantry
Royal Marines
The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry  1992-present
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Royal Military Police
Royal Military School of Music
Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey 1337-1946,
1987-present
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 
The Royal Munster Fusiliers [101st, 104th]   1881-1922
Royal Naval Commandos
Royal Navy
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment 1795-1816
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment 1914-1919
The Royal Norfolk Regiment [9th]   1685-1959
Royal North Devon Yeomanry
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers [5th]   1674-1968
Royal Observer Corps
Royal Pioneer Corps 1939-1992
Royal Regiment of Artillery  1716-present
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 1968-present
The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)  1969-present
The Royal Rifle Volunteers 1999-present
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) [1st]   1572-present
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) 
The Royal Scots Fusiliers [21st]   1678-1959
The Royal Scots Greys [2nd Dragoons]  
Royal Signals 1920-present
The Royal Sussex Regiment [35th, 107th] 1881-1966
Royal Tank Regiment 
The Royal Ulster Rifles [83rd, 86th] 1881-1968
The Royal Veteran Battalions  1802-1816
The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers [6th]  1673-1968
The Royal Welch Fusiliers [23rd]   1689-present
The Royal Welsh Regiment 1999-present
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry  1971-present
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own) 1794-present
The Royal Yeomanry  1967-present
Rutland Light Dragoons
Scotch Brigade 1568-1802
Scots Fusilier Guards   1831-1877
Scots Guards   1660-present
The Scottish Horse
The Scottish Yeomanry 1992-1999
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [72nd, 78th] 1881-1961
The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) [45th, 95th] 1881-1970
The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
The Shropshire Yeomanry
Shropshire ACF
Small Arms School Corps
The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry 1959-1968
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) [13th]  1685-1959
South Cork Light Infantry
South Irish Horse 1900-1922
The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) [40th, 82nd] 1881-1958
The South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry
The South Staffordshire Regiment [38th, 80th] 1881-1959
The South Wales Borderers [24th]   1689-1969
Special Air Service Regiment
Staff College
The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) 1959-present
Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry 1999-present
The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) 1794-1999
Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry 1956-present
The Suffolk Regiment [12th] 1685-1959
Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars)
Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)
Sussex Yeomanry
The Tank Corps
Tower Hamlets Rifles
The Tyne-Tees Regiment 1999-present
The Tyneside Scottish
Ulster Defence Regiment 1970-1992
The Warwickshire Yeomanry
de Watteville's Regiment of Foot  1801-1816
The Welch Regiment [41st, 69th] 1881-1969
Welsh Guards  1915-present
Welsh Horse Yeomanry 1914-1917
Welsh Volunteers 1967-1971
The Wessex Regiment 1967-1995