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Infantry 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.
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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) |
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| 100th (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot raised 1794
92nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot 1798 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 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) |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 60th Regiment of Foot raised 1755
58th Regiment of Foot 1757 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 58th Regiment of Foot raised 1755
56th Regiment of Foot 1757 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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)
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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)
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| 76th Regiment of Foot raised for service in India 1787
Later 76th (Hindoostan) Regiment of Foot 1807 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 95th Regiment of Foot raised 1823
95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot 1825 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 98th was raised and disbanded on
five occasions between 1760 and 1818.
Reformed in 1824. |
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| 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 |
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| 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot raised 1756
69th Regiment of Foot 1758 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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 |
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| Cornelius Cuyler's Shropshire Volunteers raised 1793
86th (the Shropshire Volunteers) Later 86th (The Leinster) Regiment of Foot 1806 |
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| 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 |
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| The Ulster Defence Regiment 1970
Formed for Northern Ireland service only to replace the B Specials of the Royal Ulster Constabulary |
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| 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 |
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| 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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot raised 1758
61st Regiment of Foot 1758 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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) |
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| 2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot raised 1756
66th Regiment of Foot 1758 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 54th Regiment of Foot raised 1755
52nd Regiment of Foot 1757 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| James Price's Regiment of Foot raised 1741
46th Regiment of Foot 1751 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot 1782 |
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| 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. |
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