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War Medals and Their History

APPENDIX II REGIMENTAL DESIGNATIONS

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Cavalry

Name. Former Title. Present Title.

Life Guards 1st and 2nd Same

Royal Horse Guards The "Blues" "

1st Dragoon Guards The King's "

2nd " " Queen's Bays "

3rd " " Prince of Wales' "

4th " " Royal Irish "

5th " " Princess Charlotte of Wales "

6th " " Carabineers "

7th " " Princess Royal's "

1st Dragoons Royal "

2nd " Royal North British (Scots Greys) Royal Scots Greys

3rd Hussars Light Dragoons The King's Own

4th " " " The Queen's Own

5th Lancers Royal Irish Same

6th Dragoons Inniskilling "

7th Hussars Light Dragoons The Queen's Own

8th " " " King's Royal Irish

9th Lancers " " The Queen's Royal

10th Hussars " " Prince of Wales' Own Royal

11th " " " Prince Albert's Own

12th Lancers " " Prince of Wales' Royal

13th Hussars " " None

14th " The King's Same

15th " Light Dragoons The King's

16th Lancers The Queen's Same

17th " "Death or Glory Boys" Duke of Cambridge's Own

18th Hussars Light Dragoons Queen Mary's Own

19th " 1st Bengal European Cavalry Princess of Wales' Own

20th " 2nd Bengal European Cavalry

21st Lancers 3rd Bengal European Cavalry Empress of India's

Infantry

Grenadier Guards 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battns. Same

Coldstream Guards 1st and 2nd Battns. "

Scots Fusilier Guards 1st and 2nd Battns. "

Irish Guards "

Welsh Guards "

1st Regt. The Royal Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.)

2nd " Queen's Royal Royal West Surrey Regt.

3rd " East Kent—The Buffs East Kent Regt.

4th " King's Own Royal Royal Lancaster Regt.

5th " Northumberland Fusiliers Same

6th " Royal 1st Warwickshire Royal Warwickshire Regt.

7th " Royal Fusiliers City of London Regt.

8th " The King's Liverpool Regt.

9th " East Norfolk Norfolk Regt.

10th " North Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Regt.

11th " North Devonshire Devonshire Regt.

12th " East Suffolk Suffolk Regt.

13th " Prince Albert's Light Inf. Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Inf.)

14th " Buckinghamshire Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regt.)

15th " Yorkshire, East Riding East Yorkshire Regt.

16th " The Bedfordshire Bedfordshire Regt.

17th " Leicestershire Leicestershire Regt.

18th " Royal Irish Royal Irish Regt.

19th " 1st Yorkshire, N. Riding Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regt.)

20th " East Devonshire The Lancashire Fusiliers

21st " Royal North British Fus. Royal Scots Fusiliers

22nd " The Cheshire Cheshire Regt.

23rd " Royal Welsh Fusiliers Same

24th " 2nd Warwickshire South Wales Borderers

25th " King's Own Borderers King's Own Scottish Borderers

N.B.—All the above Infantry Regiments had two Battalions.

26th Regt. The Cameronian 1st Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

27th " Inniskilling 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

28th " North Gloucestershire 1st Gloucestershire Regt.

29th " Worcestershire 1st Worcestershire Regt.

30th " Cambridgeshire 1st E. Lancashire Regt.

31st " Huntingdonshire 1st E. Surrey Regt.

32nd " Cornwall Light Inf. 1st Duke of Cornwall's Light Inf.

33rd Regt. Duke of Wellington's 1st West Riding Regt.

34th " Cumberland 1st Border Regt.

35th " Royal Sussex 1st Royal Sussex

36th " Herefordshire 2nd Worcestershire Regt.

37th " North Hampshire 1st Hampshire Regt.

38th " 1st Staffordshire 1st S. Staffordshire Regt.

39th " Dorsetshire 1st Dorsetshire Regt.

40th " 2nd Somersetshire Prince of Wales' Volunteers 1st S. Lancashire Regt.

41st " The Welsh 1st Welsh Regt.

42nd " Royal Highland (Black Watch) 1st Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

43rd " Monmouthshire Light Inf. 1st Oxfordshire Light Inf.

44th " East Essex 1st Essex Regt.

45th " Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Foresters) 1st Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.)

46th " South Devonshire 2nd Duke of Cornwall's Light Inf.

47th " Lancashire 1st Loyal N. Lancashire Regt.

48th " Northamptonshire 1st Northamptonshire Regt.

49th " Princess Charlotte of Wales' (Herts) 1st Royal Berks Regt.

50th " The Queen's Own 1st Royal W. Kent Regt.

51st " 2nd Yorkshire, West Riding (King's Own Light Infantry) 1st King's Own (Yorkshire Light Inf.)

52nd " Oxfordshire Light Inf. 2nd Oxfordshire Light Inf.

53rd " Shropshire 1st The King's (Shropshire Light Inf.)

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 Battns.) King's Royal Rifle Corps Same

61st " South Gloucestershire 2nd Gloucestershire

62nd " Wiltshire 1st Duke of Edin. (Wilts)

63rd " West Suffolk 1st Manchester

64th " 2nd Staffordshire 1st Prince of Wales' (N. Staffs)

65th " 2nd Yorkshire, North Riding 1st York and Lancaster

66th " Berkshire 2nd Princess Charlotte of Wales' (Royal Berks)

67th Regt. South Hampshire 2nd Hampshire

68th " Durham Light Inf. 1st Durham Light Inf.

69th " South Lincolnshire 2nd Welsh

70th " Surrey 2nd East Surrey

71st " Highland Light Inf. 1st Highland Light Inf.

72nd " Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders 1st Seaforth Highlanders, Ross-shire Buffs (Duke of Albany's)

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

74th " Highland Regt. 2nd Highland Light Inf.

75th " Stirlingshire Regt. 1st Gordon Highlanders

76th " None 2nd Duke of Wellington's (W. Riding)

77th " East Middlesex 2nd Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex)

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

79th " Cameron Highlanders Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

80th " Staffordshire Volunteers 2nd South Staffordshire

81st " Loyal Lincoln Volunteers 2nd Loyal N. Lancaster

82nd " Prince of Wales' Volunteers 2nd Prince of Wales' Volunteers (South Lancaster)

83rd " County Dublin 1st Royal Irish Rifles

84th " York and Lancaster 2nd York and Lancaster

85th " Bucks Volunteers (King's Light Inf.) 2nd The King's (Shropshire Light Inf.)

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 Inf.) 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

91st " Argyllshire Highlanders 1st Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

92nd " Gordon Highlanders 2nd Gordon Highlanders

93rd " Sutherland Highlanders 2nd Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

94th " None 2nd Connaught Rangers

95th " Derbyshire 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire)

96th " None 2nd Manchester

97th Regt. Earl of Ulster's 2nd Queen's Own (Royal W. Kent)

98th " None 2nd Prince of Wales' (N. Staffordshire)

99th " Lanarkshire 2nd Duke of Edinburgh's(Wilts)

100th " Prince of Wales' Royal Canadians 1st Prince of Wales' (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 " 2nd Bengal Fusiliers 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers

105th " 2nd Madras Light Inf. 2nd King's Own (Yorks Light Inf.)

106th " 2nd Bombay " " 2nd Durham Light Inf.

107th " 3rd Bengal Inf. 2nd Royal Sussex

108th " 3rd Madras Light Inf. 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

109th " 3rd Bombay " " 2nd Prince of Wales' Leinster (Royal Canadians)

Rifle Brigade (4 Battns.) 95th (Rifle Corps) Regt. Prince Consort's Own

[Since the outbreak of war the number of battalions in all Regiments has been considerably increased.]

Illustration from War Medals and Their History

GREEK MEDAL FOR GRECO-TURKISH WAR, 1913. (Obverse.)

Illustration from War Medals and Their History

GERMAN MEDAL FOR SOUTH-WEST AFRICA, 1904-6.

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GREEK MEDAL FOR GRECO-TURKISH WAR, 1913. (Reverse.)

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