LIST OF REGIMENTS, WITH THEIR FORMER NUMBERS AND THEIR PRESENT
TITLES, IN ORDER OF PRECEDENCE

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NAME. | FORMER TITLE.[73] | PRESENT TITLE.
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_Cavalry._ | |
| |
The Life Guards. | First and Second | The same
The Royal Horse | The “Blues” | ”
Guards | |
1st Dragoon Guards | The King’s | ”
2nd ” | Queen’s Bays | ”
3rd ” | Prince of Wales’s | ”
4th ” | Royal Irish | ”
5th ” | Princess Charlotte of | ”
| Wales’s |
6th ” | Carabiniers | ”
7th ” | Princess Royal’s | ”
1st Dragoons | Royal | ”
2nd ” | Royal North British | Royal Scots Greys
| (Scots Greys)[74] |
3rd Hussars | The King’s Own | The same
4th ” | The Queen’s Own | ”
5th Lancers | Royal Irish | ”
6th Dragoons | Inniskilling | ”
7th Hussars | The Queen’s Own | ”
8th ” | The King’s Royal Irish | ”
9th Lancers | The Queen’s Royal | ”
10th Hussars | The Prince of Wales’s | ”
| Own Royal |
11th ” | Prince Albert’s Own | ”
12th Lancers | The Prince of Wales’s | ”
| Royal |
13th Hussars | None | None
14th ” | The King’s | The same
15th ” | The King’s | ”
16th Lancers | The Queen’s | ”
17th ” | None | The Duke of Cambridge’s
| | Own[75]
18th Hussars | ” | None
19th ” | ” | Princess of Wales’s Own
20th ” | ” | None
21st ” | ” | ”
| |
_Infantry._ | |
| |
Grenadier Guards | 1st, 2nd, and 3rd | The same
| Battalions |
Coldstream ” | 1st and 2nd Battalions | ”
Scots Fusilier[76] ”| 1st and 2nd Battalions | ”
1st Regiment | The Royal | The Royal Scots (Lothian
| | Regiment)
2nd ” | The Queen’s Royal | (Royal West Surrey
| | Regiment)
3rd ” | East Kent--The Buffs | (East Kent Regiment)
4th ” | The King’s Own Royal | (Royal Lancaster
| | Regiment)
5th ” | Northumberland | The same
| Fusiliers |
6th ” | Royal 1st Warwickshire | The Royal Warwickshire
| | Regiment
7th ” | Royal Fusiliers | (City of London Regiment)
8th ” | The King’s | (Liverpool Regiment)
9th ” | East Norfolk | The Norfolk Regiment
10th ” | North Lincolnshire | The Lincolnshire Regiment
11th ” | North Devonshire | The Devonshire Regiment
12th ” | East Suffolk | The Suffolk Regiment
13th ” | Prince Albert’s Light | The Prince Albert’s
| Infantry | (Somersetshire Light
| | Infantry)
14th ” | Buckinghamshire | The Prince of Wales’s Own
| | (West Yorkshire
| | Regiment)
15th ” | Yorkshire East Riding | The East Yorkshire
| | Regiment
16th ” | The Bedfordshire | The Bedfordshire Regiment
17th ” | Leicestershire | The Leicestershire
| | Regiment
18th ” | The Royal Irish | The Royal Irish Regiment
19th ” | 1st Yorkshire North | The Princess of Wales’s
| Riding | Own[77] (Yorkshire
| | Regiment)
20th ” | The East Devonshire | The Lancashire Fusiliers
21st ” | Royal North British | Royal Scots Fusiliers[78]
| Fusiliers |
22nd ” | The Cheshire | The Cheshire Regiment
23rd ” | Royal Welsh Fusiliers | The same
24th ” | The 2nd Warwickshire | The South Wales Borderers
25th ” | The King’s Own | The King’s Own Scottish
| Borderers | Borderers
_N.B_--All these regiments had two battalions.
26th Regiment | The Cameronian | 1st Cameronians (Scottish
| | Rifles)
27th ” | Inniskilling | 1st Royal Inniskilling
| | Fusiliers
28th ” | North Gloucestershire | 1st Gloucestershire
| | Regiment
29th ” | Worcestershire | 1st Worcestershire
| | Regiment
30th ” | Cambridgeshire | 1st East Lancashire
| | Regiment
31st ” | Huntingdonshire | 1st East Surrey Regiment
32nd ” | Cornwall Light Infantry| 1st Duke of Cornwall’s
| | Light Infantry
33rd ” | Duke of Wellington’s | 1st West Riding Regiment
34th ” | Cumberland | 1st Border Regiment
35th ” | Royal Sussex | 1st Royal Sussex
36th ” | Herefordshire | 2nd Worcestershire
| | Regiment
37th ” | North Hampshire | 1st Hampshire Regiment
38th ” | 1st Staffordshire | 1st South Staffordshire
| | Regiment
39th ” | Dorsetshire | 1st Dorsetshire Regiment
40th ” | 2nd Somersetshire | Prince of Wales’s
| | Volunteers, 1st South
| | Lancashire Regiment
41st ” | The Welsh | 1st Welsh Regiment
42nd ” | Royal Highland (Black | 1st Black Watch (Royal
| Watch) | Highlanders)
43rd ” | Monmouthshire Light | 1st Oxfordshire Light
| Infantry | Infantry
44th ” | East Essex | 1st Essex Regiment
45th ” | Nottinghamshire | 1st Sherwood Foresters
| (Sherwood Foresters) | (Derbyshire Regiment)
46th ” | South Devonshire | 2nd Duke of Cornwall’s
| | Light Infantry
47th ” | Lancashire | 1st Loyal North
| | Lancashire Regiment
48th ” | Northamptonshire | 1st Northamptonshire
| | Regiment
49th ” | Princess Charlotte of | 1st Royal Berks Regiment
| Wales’s (Herts) |
50th ” | The Queen’s Own | 1st Royal West Kent
| | Regiment
51st ” | 2nd Yorkshire, West | 1st King’s Own (Yorkshire
| Riding (the King’s | Light Infantry)
| Own Light Infantry) |
52nd ” | Oxfordshire Light | 2nd Oxfordshire Light
| Infantry | Infantry
53rd ” | Shropshire | 1st The King’s
| | (Shropshire Light
| | Infantry)
54th ” | West Norfolk | 2nd Dorsetshire
55th ” | Westmoreland | 2nd The Border
56th ” | West Essex | 2nd Essex
57th ” | West Middlesex | 1st Duke of Cambridge’s
| | Own (Middlesex)
58th ” | Rutlandshire | 2nd Northamptonshire
59th ” | 2nd Nottinghamshire | 2nd East Lancashire
60th ” | King’s Royal Rifle | The same
(4 battalions) | Corps |
61st Regiment | South Gloucestershire | 2nd Gloucestershire
62nd ” | Wiltshire | 1st Duke of Edinburgh
| | (Wilts)
63rd ” | West Suffolk | 1st Manchester
64th ” | 2nd Staffordshire | 1st The Prince of Wales
| | (North Staffordshire)
65th ” | 2nd Yorkshire, North | 1st York and Lancaster
| Riding |
66th ” | Berkshire | 2nd Princess Charlotte of
| | Wales’s (Royal Berks)
67th ” | South Hampshire | 2nd Hampshire
68th ” | Durham Light Infantry | 1st Durham Light Infantry
69th ” | South Lincolnshire | 2nd Welsh
70th ” | Surrey | 2nd East Surrey
71st ” | Highland Light | 1st Highland Light
| Infantry | Infantry
72nd ” | Duke of Albany’s Own | 1st Seaforth Highlanders,
| Highlanders | Ross-shire Buffs (The
| | Duke of Albany’s)
73rd ” | Perthshire | 2nd Black Watch (Royal
| | Highlanders)
74th ” | Highland Regiment | 2nd Highland Light
| | Infantry
75th ” | None[79] | 1st Gordon Highlanders
76th ” | None | 2nd Duke of Wellington
| | (West Riding)
77th ” | East Middlesex | 2nd Duke of Cambridge’s
| | Own[80] (Middlesex)
78th ” | Highland Regt. | 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
| (Ross-Buffs) | (Ross-shire Buffs),
| | The Duke of Albany’s
79th | Cameron Highlanders | Queen’s Own Cameron
(1 battalion)[81] | | Highlanders[82]
80th Regiment | Staffordshire | 2nd South Staffordshire
81st ” | Loyal Lincoln | 2nd Loyal North Lancaster
| Volunteers |
82nd ” | Prince of Wales’s | 2nd Prince of Wales’s
| Volunteers | Volunteers (South
| | Lancaster)
83rd ” | County Dublin | 1st Royal Irish Rifles
84th ” | York and Lancaster | 2nd York and Lancaster
85th ” | Bucks Volunteers | 2nd The King’s
| (King’s Light | (Shropshire Light
| Infantry) | Infantry)
86th ” | Royal County Down | 2nd Royal Irish Rifles
87th ” | Royal Irish Fusiliers | 1st Princess Victoria’s
| | (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
88th ” | Connaught Rangers | 1st Connaught Rangers
89th ” | Princess Victoria’s | 2nd Princess Victoria’s
| | (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
90th ” | Perthshire Volunteers | 2nd Cameronians
| (Light Infantry) | (Scottish Rifles)
91st ” | The Argyleshire | 1st Princess Louise’s[83]
| Highlanders | (Argyle and Sutherland
| | Highlanders)
92nd ” | Gordon Highlanders | 2nd Gordon Highlanders
93rd ” | Sutherland Highlanders | 2nd Princess Louise’s
| | (Argyle and Sutherland)
94th ” | None | 2nd Connaught Rangers
95th ” | Derbyshire | 2nd Sherwood Foresters
| | (Derbyshire)
96th ” | None | 2nd Manchester
97th ” | Earl of Ulster’s | 2nd Queen’s Own (Royal
| | West Kent)
98th ” | None | 2nd Prince of Wales’s[84]
| | (North Staffordshire)
99th ” | Lanarkshire | 2nd Duke of
| | Edinburgh’s[85] (Wilts)
100th ” | Prince of Wales’s | 1st Prince of Wales’s
| Royal Canadians | Leinster (Royal
| | Canadians)
101st ” | Royal Bengal Fusiliers | 1st Royal Munster
| | Fusiliers
102nd ” | Royal Madras ” | 1st Royal Dublin
| | Fusiliers
103rd ” | Royal Bombay ” | 2nd Royal Dublin
| | Fusiliers
104th ” | Bengal Fusiliers | 2nd Royal Munster
| | Fusiliers
105th ” | Madras Light Infantry | 2nd King’s Own (Yorks
| | Light Infantry)
106th ” | Bombay ” | 2nd Durham Light Infantry
107th ” | Bengal Infantry | 2nd Royal Sussex
108th ” | Madras ” | 2nd Royal Inniskilling
| | Fusiliers
109th ” | Bombay ” | 2nd Prince of Wales’s
| | Leinster (Royal
| | Canadians)
Rifle Brigade | The Prince Consort’s | The same
(4 battalions) | Own |
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