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The Story of the British Army

by Charles Cooper King

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Appendix II — List of Regiments, With Their Former Numbers and Their Present Titles, in Order of Precedence

Name.Former Title.73Present Title.
Cavalry.
The Life Guards.First and SecondThe same
The Royal Horse GuardsThe “Blues”″
1st Dragoon GuardsThe 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 DragoonsRoyal″
2nd ″Royal North British (Scots Greys)74Royal Scots Greys
3rd HussarsThe King’s OwnThe same
4th ″The Queen’s Own″
5th LancersRoyal Irish″
6th DragoonsInniskilling″
7th HussarsThe Queen’s Own″
8th ″The King’s Royal Irish″
9th LancersThe Queen’s Royal″
10th HussarsThe Prince of Wales’s Own Royal″
11th ″Prince Albert’s Own″
12th LancersThe Prince of Wales’s Royal″
13th HussarsNoneNone
14th ″The King’sThe same
15th ″The King’s″
16th LancersThe Queen’s″
17th ″NoneThe Duke of Cambridge’s Own75
18th Hussars″None
19th ″″Princess of Wales’s Own
20th ″″None
21st ″″″
Infantry.
Grenadier Guards1st, 2nd, and 3rd BattalionsThe same
Coldstream ″1st and 2nd Battalions″
Scots Fusilier76 ″1st and 2nd Battalions″
1st RegimentThe RoyalThe 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 FusiliersThe same
6th ″Royal 1st WarwickshireThe Royal Warwickshire Regiment
7th ″Royal Fusiliers(City of London Regiment)
8th ″The King’s(Liverpool Regiment)
9th ″East NorfolkThe Norfolk Regiment
10th ″North LincolnshireThe Lincolnshire Regiment
11th ″North DevonshireThe Devonshire Regiment
12th ″East SuffolkThe Suffolk Regiment
13th ″Prince Albert’s Light InfantryThe Prince Albert’s (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
14th ″BuckinghamshireThe Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
15th ″Yorkshire East RidingThe East Yorkshire Regiment
16th ″The BedfordshireThe Bedfordshire Regiment
17th ″LeicestershireThe Leicestershire Regiment
18th ″The Royal IrishThe Royal Irish Regiment
19th ″1st Yorkshire North RidingThe Princess of Wales’s Own77 (Yorkshire Regiment)
20th ″The East DevonshireThe Lancashire Fusiliers
21st ″Royal North British FusiliersRoyal Scots Fusiliers78
22nd ″The CheshireThe Cheshire Regiment
23rd ″Royal Welsh FusiliersThe same
24th ″The 2nd WarwickshireThe South Wales Borderers
N.B—All these regiments had two battalions.
25th ″The King’s Own BorderersThe King’s Own Scottish Borderers
26th RegimentThe Cameronian1st Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
27th ″Inniskilling1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
28th ″North Gloucestershire1st Gloucestershire Regiment
29th ″Worcestershire1st Worcestershire Regiment
30th ″Cambridgeshire1st East Lancashire Regiment
31st ″Huntingdonshire1st East Surrey Regiment
32nd ″Cornwall Light Infantry1st Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
33rd ″Duke of Wellington’s1st West Riding Regiment
34th ″Cumberland1st Border Regiment
35th ″Royal Sussex1st Royal Sussex
36th ″Herefordshire2nd Worcestershire Regiment
37th ″North Hampshire1st Hampshire Regiment
38th ″1st Staffordshire1st South Staffordshire Regiment
39th ″Dorsetshire1st Dorsetshire Regiment
40th ″2nd SomersetshirePrince of Wales’s Volunteers, 1st South Lancashire Regiment
41st ″The Welsh1st Welsh Regiment
42nd ″Royal Highland (Black Watch)1st Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
43rd ″Monmouthshire Light Infantry1st Oxfordshire Light Infantry
44th ″East Essex1st Essex Regiment
45th ″Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Foresters)1st Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
46th ″South Devonshire2nd Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
47th ″Lancashire1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
48th ″Northamptonshire1st Northamptonshire Regiment
49th ″Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Herts)1st Royal Berks Regiment
50th ″The Queen’s Own1st 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 Infantry2nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry
53rd ″Shropshire1st The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)
54th ″West Norfolk2nd Dorsetshire
55th ″Westmoreland2nd The Border
56th ″West Essex2nd Essex
57th ″West Middlesex1st Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex)
58th ″Rutlandshire2nd Northamptonshire
59th ″2nd Nottinghamshire2nd East Lancashire
60th ″ (4 battalions)King’s Royal Rifle CorpsThe same
61st RegimentSouth Gloucestershire2nd Gloucestershire
62nd ″Wiltshire1st Duke of Edinburgh (Wilts)
63rd ″West Suffolk1st Manchester
64th ″2nd Staffordshire1st The Prince of Wales (North Staffordshire)
65th ″2nd Yorkshire, North Riding1st York and Lancaster
66th ″Berkshire2nd Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berks)
67th ″South Hampshire2nd Hampshire
68th ″Durham Light Infantry1st Durham Light Infantry
69th ″South Lincolnshire2nd Welsh
70th ″Surrey2nd East Surrey
71st ″Highland Light Infantry1st Highland Light Infantry
72nd ″Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders1st Seaforth Highlanders, Ross-shire Buffs (The Duke of Albany’s)
73rd ″Perthshire2nd Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
74th ″Highland Regiment2nd Highland Light Infantry
75th ″None791st Gordon Highlanders
76th ″None2nd Duke of Wellington (West Riding)
77th ″East Middlesex2nd 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)81Cameron HighlandersQueen’s Own Cameron Highlanders82
80th RegimentStaffordshire2nd South Staffordshire
81st ″Loyal Lincoln Volunteers2nd Loyal North Lancaster
82nd ″Prince of Wales’s Volunteers2nd Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancaster)
83rd ″County Dublin1st Royal Irish Rifles
84th ″York and Lancaster2nd York and Lancaster
85th ″Bucks Volunteers (King’s Light Infantry)2nd The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)
86th ″Royal County Down2nd Royal Irish Rifles
87th ″Royal Irish Fusiliers1st Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
88th ″Connaught Rangers1st Connaught Rangers
89th ″Princess Victoria’s2nd Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
90th ″Perthshire Volunteers (Light Infantry)2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
91st ″The Argyleshire Highlanders1st Princess Louise’s83 (Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders)
92nd ″Gordon Highlanders2nd Gordon Highlanders
93rd ″Sutherland Highlanders2nd Princess Louise’s (Argyle and Sutherland)
94th ″None2nd Connaught Rangers
95th ″Derbyshire2nd Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire)
96th ″None2nd Manchester
97th ″Earl of Ulster’s2nd Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent)
98th ″None2nd Prince of Wales’s84 (North Staffordshire)
99th ″Lanarkshire2nd Duke of Edinburgh’s85 (Wilts)
100th ″Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadians1st Prince of Wales’s Leinster (Royal Canadians)
101st ″Royal Bengal Fusiliers1st Royal Munster Fusiliers
102nd ″Royal Madras ″1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers
103rd ″Royal Bombay ″2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers
104th ″Bengal Fusiliers2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers
105th ″Madras Light Infantry2nd King’s Own (Yorks Light Infantry)
106th ″Bombay ″2nd Durham Light Infantry
107th ″Bengal Infantry2nd Royal Sussex
108th ″Madras ″2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
109th ″Bombay ″2nd Prince of Wales’s Leinster (Royal Canadians)

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