Infantry Regiments

Military
Regiments
17th Century and earlier 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Modern Regiment Name
Raised in 1633 by Sir John Hepburn.

Returned to England in 1661.

The Royal Regiment of Foot in 1679.
1st Regiment of Foot 1751 The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1881

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2006)

The Royal Scots was the oldest Regiment in the British Army and senior Infantry Regiment of the Line.

 

Earl of Leven's or Edinburgh Regiment of Foot raised 1689 25th (Edinburgh) Regiment of Foot 1751 The York Regt (King's Own Borderers) 1881

King's Own Scottish Borderers 1887

King's Own Scottish Borderers

Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot raised 1678

Scots Fusliers 1685

Placed on British Establishment 1688

North British Fusiliers 1707 (since the Act of Union)

Royal North British Fusiliers 1713

21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers) 1751

The Royal Scots Fusiliers 1881

The Royal Scots Fusiliers

merged into The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 1959

 

The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2006)

 

  73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot raised 1777

Later 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) 1810

The Highland Light Infantry 1881

The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 1923

merged into The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 1959

  74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot raised 1787
  Formed 1739 as The Earl of Crawford's Regiment by amalgamating independent companies 'Black Watch' in the highlands

42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch)

1st Battalion The Black Watch (The Royal Highlanders) 1881

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 1935

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2006)

 

  Formed 1780 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot. 2nd Battalion The Black Watch (The Royal Highlanders) 1881
  Seaforth (Highland) Regiment raised 1777

72nd Regiment of Foot 1786

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) 1881

Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) 1961

merged into The Highlanders (Seaforths, Gordons and Camerons)

 

The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2006)

 

  78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (or The Ross-shire Buffs) raised 1793
  79th (Highland-Cameron Volunteers) Regiment of Foot raised in 1793 The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1881
  75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot raised 1787 The Gordon Highlanders 1881

The Gordon Highlanders

merged into The Highlanders (Seaforths, Gordons and Camerons)

  100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot raised 1794

92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot 1798

  98th (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot raised 1794

91st Foot in 1796

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 1881

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2006)

  93rd Sutherland Highlanders raised 1799
The Tangier Regiment raised by the Earl of Peterborough 1661 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot 1751 The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 1881 The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1921

The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment 1959

The Queen's Regiment 1966

The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)

England's Senior Infantry Regiment of the Line.

  Marine Regiment raised 1702

31st Regiment of Foot 1751

31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The East Surrey Regiment 1881
  2nd Battalion 31st Regiment of Foot raised 1756

70th Regiment of Foot 1758

70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot 1782

  52nd Regiment of Foot raised 1755

50th Regiment of Foot 1757

50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot 1782

Later 50th (the Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot 1831

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1881

Amalgamated:

97th Regiment of Foot raised 1824

The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
   
Thomas Morgan's Company raised at Greenwich from the London Trained Bands in 1572

The Holland Regiment 1665

Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1689

3rd (or The Buffs) Regiment of Foot 1751 The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 1881
  Earl of Donegall's Regiment raised 1701

35th Regiment of Foot 1751

35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot 1751

The Royal Sussex Regiment 1881

Amalgamated:

3rd Bengal European Infantry Regiment raised 1853 (HEIC)

Transferred to British Army as 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1861

The Royal Sussex Regiment
   
  Raised 1702

37th Regiment of Foot 1751

37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1751

The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1881 The Royal Hampshire Regiment
  2nd Bttn 20th Regiment of Foot raised 1756

67th Regiment of Foot 1758

67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  59th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

57th Regiment of Foot 1757

57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1881 The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) 1920
  77th Regiment of Foot raised 1787

Later 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1807

Viscount Castleton's Regiment of Foot Raised 1689

Thomas Saunderson's Regiment of Foot 1694

Disbanded after the Treaty of Ryswick 1699

Thomas Saunderson's Regiment of Marines, a.k.a 1st Regiment of Marines (1702)

30th Regiment of Foot 1751

30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The East Lancashire Regiment 1881

The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) 1958 - formed from merging The East Lancashire Regiment and The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)

The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) 1920

Merged 1970 to form The Queen's Lancashire Regiment 1970

1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border) (2006)
  61st Regiment of Foot raised 1755

Regiment of Foot 1757

59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  Formed from eight independent companies serving in Nova Scotia 1717

40th Regiment of Foot 1751

40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) 1881
  82nd Regiment of Foot raised 1793
  Formed in Scotland 1741

47th Regiment of Foot 1751

47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot 1751

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1881
  81st Regiment of Foot raised 1793

81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment of Foot 1832

The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot 1685.

Named for the future Queen Anne

The Queen's Regiment of Foot 1702 (renamed for Queen Anne)

The King's Regiment of Foot
1716 (renamed for King George I)

8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot 1751

The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1881

Rejoined 1958 to become The King's Regiment

2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border) (2006)
  2nd Bn, 8th (The King's) Regiment raised 1756

63rd Regiment of Foot 1758

63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Manchester Regiment 1881

(re-amalgamated with 96th Regiment of Foot raised in 1824)

2nd Tangier Regiment, or Earl of Plymouth's raised 1680

The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot 1684

The Queen's Regiment of Foot 1685

The Queen's Regiment of Foot 1702

The King's Own Regiment of Foot 1715 (renamed for King George I)

4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot 1751

The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1881

King's Own Royal Border Regiment 1959

Briefly 3rd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border) (2006) before disbanding with personnel distributed into 1st and 2nd Bttns.

  Lord Lucas's Regiment of Foot raised 1702

34th Regiment of Foot 1751

34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Border Regiment 1881
  57th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

55th (Westmoreland) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Irish Regiment raised 1674

Transfered to English Establishment 1685

5th Regiment of Foot 1751

5th (the Northumberland) Regiment of Foot 1782

5th Regiment of Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers) 1836

The Northumberland Fusiliers 1881

The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1935 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) 1968

Sir Walter Vane's Regiment of Foot raised 1667, disbanded 1668?

Sir Walter Vane's Regiment of Foot raised 1673

Transfered to English Establishment 1688

6th Regiment of Foot 1751

6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1881 The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers 1963 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) 1968

The Royal Regiment of Fuziliers a.k.a. The Ordnance Regiment raised at the Tower of London by Lord Dartmouth Master General of the Ordnance 1685

Royal English Fuzileers 1747

7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) 1751

The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1881 The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) 1968
Sir Robert Peyton's Regiment of Foot raised 1688 20th Regiment of Foot 1751

20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Lancashire Fusiliers 1881 The Lancashire Fusiliers 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (RRF) 1968
Henry Cornewall's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 9th Regiment of Foot 1751

9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Norfolk Regiment 1881

Later Royal Norfolk Regiment 1936

1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) 1959 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment
(R ANGLIAN) 1964
The Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 12th Regiment of Foot 1751

12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Suffolk Regiment 1881
The Earl of Bath's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 10th Regiment of Foot 1751

10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Lincolnshire Regiment 1881

Later The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment 1946

2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 1960 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment
(R ANGLIAN) 1964
  James Cholmondeley's Regiment of Foot raised 1741

48th Regiment of Foot 1751

48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

 

 

The Northamptonshire Regiment 1881

  60th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

58th Regiment of Foot 1757

58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

Archibald Douglas's Regiment of Foot raised 1688 16th Regiment of Foot 1751

16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1751

The Bedfordshire Regiment 1881

Later The Bedfordshire and Hertfordhire Regiment 1919

3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) 1958

3rd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment
(R ANGLIAN) 1964

amalgamated into 1st and 2nd Battalions 1992.

  James Long's Regiment of Foot raised 1741

44th Regiment of Foot 151

44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Essex Regiment 1881
  58th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

56th Regiment of Foot 1757

56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot 1782

Solomon Richards' Regiment of Foot raised 1688 17th Regiment of Foot 1751

17th (Leicestersshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Leicestershire Regiment 1881 1st Battalion The Royal Leicestershire Regiment 1946 4th Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (R ANGLIAN) 1964, disbanded 1965 with ancestry passed to 2 R ANGLIAN
Sir Edward Hales's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 14th Regiment of Foot 1751

14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 1881

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire 1958

The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales’s Own)

Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 15th Regiment of Foot 1751

15th (York East Riding) Regiment of Foot 1782

The East Yorkshire Regiment 1881
Francis Luttrell's Regiment of Foot raised 1688 19th Regiment of Foot 1751

19th (1st Yorks. North Riding) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) 1881

The connection between the Scandinavian Royal family and the Green Howards goes back to 1875 when Princess Alexandra of Denmark presented Colours to the Regiment and in 1875 she agreed to give her name as Princess of Wales to the Regiment. She also designed the Green Howards badge. As Queen of England, Alexandra became the first Colonel-in-Chief.

The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) 1920

The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)

2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)

  Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot raised 1702

33rd Regiment of Foot 1751

33rd (1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot 1751

Later 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot 1853

The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 1881

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding ) 1920

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

 

3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s)

 

  76th Regiment of Foot raised for service in India 1787

Later 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot 1807

Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot raised 1689 22nd Regiment of Foot 1751

22nd (the Cheshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Cheshire Regiment 1881 The Cheshire Regiment

1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire)

Thomas Farrington's Regiment of Foot raised 1694 >29th Regiment of Foot 1751

29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Worcestershire Regiment 1881

The Worcestershire Regiment

Merged into The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) 1970

2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters)

  Thomas Allnutt's Regiment of Foot raised 1701

36th Regiment of Foot 1751

36th (the Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  Daniel Houghton's Regiment of Foot raised 1741

45th Regiment of Foot 1751

45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 1881

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 1902

merged into The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) 1970

  95th Regiment of Foot raised 1823

95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot 1825

  Lillingston's Regiment raised 1705

38th Regiment of Foot 1751

38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The South Staffordshire Regiment 1881

The South Staffordshire Regiment

merged into The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) 1959

 

3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords)

  80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) raised 1793 from the Staffordshire Militia
  2nd Bttn 11th Regiment of Foot raised 1756

64th Regiment of Foot 1758

64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment) 1881

North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) 1920

merged into The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) 1959

  98th was raised and disbanded on five occasions between 1760 and 1818.

Reformed in 1824.

Lord Herbert's Regiment raised at Ludlow 1689 23rd Regiment of Foot 1751

23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot 1751

The Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1881 The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1920

1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Welch Fusiliers)

The oldest Welsh infantry Regiment.

Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot raised 1689 24th Regiment of Foot 1751

24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The South Wales Borderers 1881

The South Wales Borderers

merged into The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) 1969

 

2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales)

  Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot raised 1719 from out-patients of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

41st Regiment of Foot (or Invalids) 1751

41st (the Welch) Regiment of Foot 1831

The Welsh Regiment 1881

The Welch Regiment

merged into The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) 1969

  2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot raised 1756

69th Regiment of Foot 1758

69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

Zacharaiah Tiffin's Regiment of Foot raised 1689 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot 1751 The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1881

Amalgamated:

3rd Madras (European) Infantry raised 1854 (HEIC)

Transferred to British Army as 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) 1862

The Royal Irish Rangers (27th) (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) 1968 The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) (R IRISH)
   
  83rd Regiment of Foot raised 1793

Later 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot 1859

The Royal Irish Rifles 1881

Later The Royal Ulster Rifles 1921

  Cornelius Cuyler's Shropshire Volunteers raised 1793

86th (the Shropshire Volunteers)
placed on Regular Establishment 1794

Later 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot 1806

  87th (The Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot raised 1793

Later 87th Regiment of Foot (or Prince of Wales's Own Irish Fusiliers) 1827

The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) 1881
  89th Regiment of Foot raised 1793

Later 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot 1866

      The Ulster Defence Regiment 1970

Formed for Northern Ireland service only to replace the B Specials of the Royal Ulster Constabulary

      Formally established 1 August 1942. Origins from 1940 when Churchill called for the formation of 'a corps of at least five thousand parachute troops, suitably organized and equipped'. The Parachute Regiment (PARA)
    The Sirmoor Battalion 1815

2nd Goorkha (The Sirmoor Rifle) Regiment 1861

2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), The Gurkha Regiment 1948 allocated to UK at independence of India The 1st Royal Gurkha Rifles 1996 (1 RGR)
    The Cuttack Legion raised 1817

46th (1st Assam) Regiment of Light Infantry Bengal Native Infantry 1861

42nd Gurka (Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry 1891

6th Gurkha Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment allocated to UK at independence of India

6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles 1959

      8th Gurkha Rifles 1902

7th Gurkha Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment 1948 allocated to UK at independence of India

7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles 1959

The 2nd Royal Gurkha Rifles 1996 (2 RGR)
    1st Regiment of Burma Infantry formed from:
  • 10th Madras Infantry
  • The Kubo Valley Military Police Battalion formed 1887

10th Regiment (1st Burma Battalion) of Madras Infantry 1891

10th Gurkha Rifles 1901

10th Gurkha Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment 1948 allocated to UK at independence of India

10th Queen Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles 1949

The Duke of Beaufort's Regiment of Foot raised Bristol 1685/td> 11th Regiment of Foot 1751

11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Devonshire Regiment 1881

The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment 1958

The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

renamed to The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Light Infantry and has now joined the Light Division (1 Mar 2005)

 

1st Battalion The Rifles (2006)

  Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot raised 1702

39th Regiment of Foot 1751

39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot 1751

Later 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot 1807

The Dorsetshire Regiment 1881
  56th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

54th Regiment of Foot 1757

54th (West Norfolk) Regiment of Foot 1782

Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot raised 1694 28th Regiment of Foot 1751

28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Gloucestershire Regiment 1881

The Gloucestershire Regiment

The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry (1 Mar 2005)

  2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot raised 1758

61st Regiment of Foot 1758

61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  Edward Trelawney's Regiment of Foot raised 1743 from existing 'Jamaica Volunteers' companies

49th Regiment of Foot 1751

49th (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment) 1881

The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berskhire and Wiltshire) 1959

The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry (1 Mar 2005)

  2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot raised 1756

66th Regiment of Foot 1758

66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  2nd Bn, 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot raised 1756

62nd Regiment of Foot 1758

62nd (the Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) 1881

Amalgamated with 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot raised 1832

   
  62nd (Royal American) Regiment of Foot
raised in US 1755
60th (The Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot 1824

The King's Royal Rifle Corps 1881

2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps 1958

2nd Battalion (The King's Royal Rifle Corps) The Royal Green Jackets Formed 1992 renumbered 1st Battalion.

2nd Battalion The Rifles (2006)
  55th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

53rd Regiment of Foot 1757

53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) 1881

The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1921

Became 1st Bn LI (1968) later renumbered 2nd Bn.

3rd Battalion The Rifles (2007)
  85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot raised 1793

Later 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) 1821

    The Rifle Corps raised 1800

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 1881

3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade 1958

3rd Battalion (The Rifle Brigade) The Royal Green Jackets Formed 1966, renumbered 2nd Battalion 1992.

4th Battalion The Rifles (2006)
  53rd Regiment of Foot raised 1755

51st Regiment of Foot 1757

51st  Regiment of Foot 1782

Later 51st King's Own Light Infantry (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) 1821

The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) 1881

Amalgamated:

2nd Madras European Light Infantry raised 1839 (HEIC)

Transferred to British Army as 105th (Madras Light Infantry) 1861

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Became 2nd Bn LI (1968)

5th Battalion The Rifles (2007)
   
  Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot raised 1741

43rd Regiment of Foot 1751

43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Oxfordshire Light Infantry 1881 The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1908

1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd 1958

1st Battalion (43rd and 52nd) The Royal Green Jackets formed 1966, disbanded 1992

 

 

 

  54th Regiment of Foot raised 1755

52nd Regiment of Foot 1757

52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot raised 1685 13th Regiment of Foot 1751

13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

The Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment) 1881

The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry 1959

Became 1st Bn LI (1968)

Disbanded 25th Feb 1993.

  Edward Fox's Regiment of Foot raised 1702

32nd Regiment of Foot 1751

32nd (Cornwall) Regiment Foot 1782

Later 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry1858

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1881
  James Price's Regiment of Foot raised 1741

46th Regiment of Foot 1751

46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782

  2nd Bttn 23rd Regiment of Foot raised 1756

68th Regiment of Foot 1758

68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot 1782

Later 68th (Durham Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot 1808

The Durham Light Infantry 1881

Amalgamated:

2nd Bombay European Regiment raised 1839 (HEIC)

Transferred to British Army as 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) 1862

The Durham Light Infantry

Became 4th Bn LI.

Disbanded 31 Match 1969.