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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.
Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion [ 44] Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion [ 45] Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon [ 46] Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company [ 46] Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon [ 46] Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company [ 47]
1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot - 4 Battalions from 1804-1816, then 3 until 1817 then 2. 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot - 1 Battalion. 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions from 1803-1815. 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions from 1804-1815.
Two more light infantry regiments subsequently joined the British Army, as the 105th and 106th regiments, transferred from the HEIC in 1861. [ 18 ] Rifle regiments : An experimental corps of riflemen, equipped with Baker rifles and clothed in rifle green uniforms, was formed in 1800, and numbered as the 95th foot in 1802. [ 22 ]
This is a list of British fencible regiments.The fencibles (from the word defencible) were British Army regiments raised in Great Britain and in the colonies for defence against the threat of invasion during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars in the late 18th century.
0–9. 1st Troop of Horse Guards. 2nd Troop of Horse Guards. 3rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Reconnaissance Regiment. 3rd Troop of Horse Guards. 4th Troop of Horse Guards. 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment. 50th Reconnaissance Regiment.
This is a list of British Regular Army regiments after the Army restructuring caused by the 1957 Defence White Paper.The paper set out the reduction in size of the Army to 165,000 following the end of National Service and the change to an entirely voluntary army; units were to be disbanded or amalgamated over two phases, to be completed in 1959 and 1962.
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force. As of 1 January 2024, the British Army comprises 75,166 regular full-time personnel, 4,062 Gurkhas, 26,244 volunteer reserve ...