British Regiments 1881
v.1.0 March 31, 2002

Source: Todd F. Mill's site Regiments.org.

Please visit the site for details on each regiment, including its designation under previous schemes. Generally each infantry regiment had two battalions, one of which was stationed overseas.

Household Cavalry 1st Life Guards
2nd Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Royal Horse Artillery Cavalry
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
1st (Royal) Dragoons
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
13th Hussars
14th (The King's) Hussars
15th (The King's) Hussars
16th (The Queen's) Lancers
17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
18th Hussars
19th Hussars
20th Hussars
21st Lancers

Royal Regiment of Artillery
Corps of Royal Engineers

Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards

Infantry of the Line

The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
The Northumberland Fusiliers
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
The Norfolk Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Devonshire Regiment
The Suffolk Regiment
Prince Albert's Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment)
The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
The East Yorkshire Regiment
The Bedfordshire Regiment
The Leicestershire Regiment
The Royal Irish Regiment
The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
The Lancashire Fusiliers
The Royal Scots Fusiliers
The Cheshire Regiment
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
The South Wales Borderers
The King's Own Borderers
The Cameronians (Scotch Rifles)
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Gloucestershire Regiment
The Worcestershire Regiment
The East Lancashire Regiment
The East Surrey Regiment
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
The Border Regiment
The Royal Sussex Regiment
The Hampshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment
The Dorsetshire Regiment
The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
The Welsh Regiment
The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
The Oxfordshire Light Infantry
The Essex Regiment
The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment)
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
The Northamptonshire Regiment
Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Berkshire Regiment)
The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
The King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment)
The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment)
The (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment
The King's Royal Rifle Corps
The (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment
The Manchester Regiment
The (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment
The York and Lancaster Regiment
The Durham Light Infantry
The Highland Light Infantry
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs)
The Gordon Highlanders
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
The Royal Irish Rifles
Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
The Connaught Rangers
Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders)
The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
The Royal Munster Fusiliers
The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)
1st West India Regiment
2nd West India Regiment