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.
Cavalry[]
- 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards amalgamated in 1922 to form The Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Cavalry of the Line[]
Heavy Cavalry[]
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards
- 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
- 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)
- 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
Light Cavalry[]
- 1st Royal Dragoons
- 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
- 3rd The King's Own Hussars
- 4th Queen's Own Hussars
- 5th Royal Irish Lancers
- 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
- 7th Queen's Own Hussars
- 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
- 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
- 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
- 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
- 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
- 13th Hussars
- 14th King's Hussars
- 15th The King's Hussars
- 16th The Queen's Lancers
- 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
- 18th Hussars
- 19th Hussars
- 20th Hussars
- 21st Hussars
Support Arms[]
- Royal Regiment of Artillery
- Corps of Royal Engineers
- Royal Horse Artillery
Infantry[]
Foot Guards[]
Line Infantry (In order of precedence)[]
- 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 - Royal title in 1935 as part of Silver Jubilee
- The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
- The Devonshire Regiment
- The Suffolk Regiment
- The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry)
- The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
- The East Yorkshire Regiment
- The Bedfordshire Regiment
- The Leicestershire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
- 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 - restored archaic spelling of Welsh (Welch) in 1921
- 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 - gained Royal title in 1946 for WWII service
- 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 (Duke of Albany's/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 (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
- The Royal Munster Fusiliers
- The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Services[]
- Commissariat and Transport Corps
- Army Hospital Corps
- Army Ordnance Corps
- Corps of Military Mounted Police
- Corps of Army Schoolmasters
- Army Chaplains' Department
- Army Pay Department
- Army Veterinary Department
- Army Nursing Service
The original article can be found at List of British Army regiments (1881) and the edit history here.