List of British Army regiments (1881)

This is a list of British Army cavalry and infantry regiments that were created by Childers reforms in 1881, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms. It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.

Cavalry

Household Cavalry

Cavalry of the Line

Dragoon Guards

Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers

Support Arms

Infantry

Foot Guards

Line Infantry (In order of precedence)

Services

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Foot Guards	Grenadier Guards Coldstream Guards Scots Guards Irish Guards Welsh Guards Guards Machine Gun Regiment Household Battalion
Line regiments	Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Buffs (East Kent Regiment) King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) Northumberland Fusiliers Royal Warwickshire Regiment Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) King's (Liverpool Regiment) Norfolk Regiment Lincolnshire Regiment Devonshire Regiment Suffolk Regiment Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) East Yorkshire Regiment Bedfordshire Regiment Leicestershire Regiment Royal Irish Regiment Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Lancashire Fusiliers Royal Scots Fusiliers Cheshire Regiment Royal Welsh Fusiliers South Wales Borderers King's Own Scottish Borderers Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Gloucestershire Regiment Worcestershire Regiment East Lancashire Regiment East Surrey Regiment Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Border Regiment Royal Sussex Regiment Hampshire Regiment South Staffordshire Regiment Dorsetshire Regiment Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) Welsh Regiment Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Essex Regiment Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Northamptonshire Regiment Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) King's Royal Rifle Corps Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) Manchester Regiment Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment) York and Lancaster Regiment Durham Light Infantry Highland Light Infantry Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) Gordon Highlanders Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Royal Irish Rifles Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Connaught Rangers Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Royal Dublin Fusiliers Royal Munster Fusiliers Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Territorial Force	Honourable Artillery Company Monmouthshire Regiment Cambridgeshire Regiment London Regiment Inns of Court Regiment Hertfordshire Regiment Herefordshire Regiment Northern Cyclist Battalion Highland Cyclist Battalion Kent Cyclist Battalion Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion
Territorial Battalions of Regular Infantry Regiments	Liverpool Rifles, King's (Liverpool Regiment) Liverpool Irish, King's (Liverpool Regiment) Liverpool Scottish, King's (Liverpool Regiment) Leeds Rifles, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Cinque Ports Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Robin Hood Rifles Hallamshire Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Glasgow Highlanders
Channel Islands Militia	Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey Royal Guernsey