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The Story of the British Army

APPENDIX II 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.

Cavalry.

The Life Guards. First and Second The same

The Royal Horse Guards The “Blues” ”

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 (Scots Greys)74 Royal Scots Greys

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 Own75

18th Hussars ” None

19th ” ” Princess of Wales’s Own

20th ” ” None

21st ” ” ”

Infantry.

Grenadier Guards 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions The same

Coldstream ” 1st and 2nd Battalions ”

Scots Fusilier76 ” 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 Fusiliers The same

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 Infantry The Prince Albert’s (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 Riding The Princess of Wales’s Own77 (Yorkshire Regiment)

20th ” The East Devonshire The Lancashire Fusiliers

21st ” Royal North British Fusiliers Royal Scots Fusiliers78

22nd ” The Cheshire The Cheshire Regiment

23rd ” Royal Welsh Fusiliers The same

24th ” The 2nd Warwickshire The South Wales Borderers

N.B—All these regiments had two battalions.

25th ” The King’s Own Borderers The King’s Own Scottish Borderers

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 Watch) 1st Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

43rd ” Monmouthshire Light Infantry 1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry

44th ” East Essex 1st Essex Regiment

45th ” Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Foresters) 1st 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 Wales’s (Herts) 1st Royal Berks Regiment

50th ” The Queen’s Own 1st Royal West Kent Regiment

51st ” 2nd Yorkshire, West Riding (the King’s Own Light Infantry) 1st King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)

52nd ” Oxfordshire Light Infantry 2nd Oxfordshire Light 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 ” (4 battalions) King’s Royal Rifle Corps The same

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 Riding 1st York and Lancaster

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 Infantry 1st Highland Light Infantry

72nd ” Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders 1st Seaforth Highlanders, Ross-shire Buffs (The Duke of Albany’s)

73rd ” Perthshire 2nd Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

74th ” Highland Regiment 2nd Highland Light Infantry

75th ” None79 1st Gordon Highlanders

76th ” None 2nd Duke of Wellington (West Riding)

77th ” East Middlesex 2nd Duke of Cambridge’s Own80 (Middlesex)

78th ” Highland Regt. (Ross-Buffs) 2nd Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs), The Duke of Albany’s

79th (1 battalion)81 Cameron Highlanders Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders82

80th Regiment Staffordshire 2nd South Staffordshire

81st ” Loyal Lincoln Volunteers 2nd Loyal North Lancaster

82nd ” Prince of Wales’s Volunteers 2nd Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancaster)

83rd ” County Dublin 1st Royal Irish Rifles

84th ” York and Lancaster 2nd York and Lancaster

85th ” Bucks Volunteers (King’s Light Infantry) 2nd The King’s (Shropshire Light 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 (Light Infantry) 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

91st ” The Argyleshire Highlanders 1st Princess Louise’s83 (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’s84 (North Staffordshire)

99th ” Lanarkshire 2nd Duke of Edinburgh’s85 (Wilts)

100th ” Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadians 1st Prince of Wales’s 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)

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