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While regiments were known by the name of their colonel, or by their royal title, the number of their rank was increasingly used. Thus, in the Cloathing Book of 1742, which illustrated the patterns of uniforms worn by the King's forces, the regiments of foot are designated simply by numbers.
2.1 Foot guards. 2.2 Line infantry and rifles. 2.3 Airborne infantry. 2.4 Special operations. ... This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Armed ...
Regiments of Foot, (Infantry of the Line) are line infantry regiments part of the army.[2] [3]1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot - 4 Battalions from 1804-1816, then 3 until 1817 then 2
Pages in category "Regiments of Foot of the English Army" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
5th Regiment Falster Regiment of Foot: 1747 1 August 1976 merged into Danish Life Regiment: 6th Regiment Funen Life Regiment: 1614 1 November 1991 merged into Schleswig Regiment of Foot: 7th Regiment Jutlandic Regiment of Foot: 1675 1 November 1961 merged with King's Regiment of Foot into King's Jutlandic Regiment of Foot: 8th Regiment Queen's ...
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.It also indicates the cavalry amalgamations that would take place forty years later as part of the Government cuts of the early 1920s.
There have been six active regiments of foot guards and one reserve regiment, five of which still exist. The Royal Guards Reserve Regiment was a reserve [1] formation of the Household Brigade in existence from 1900 to 1901. The Machine Gun Guards, which was formed during the First World War, was disbanded in 1920.
The regiment was raised in Somerset and Gloucester by Colonel John Arabin as the 59th Regiment of Foot in 1755 for service in the Seven Years' War. [2] It was re-ranked as the 57th Regiment of Foot, following the disbandment of the existing 50th and 51st regiments, in 1756. [2]