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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
Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments [22] Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments [23] [24] Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments [25] Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments [26] Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions [27] Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment [28] Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 ...
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 .
It was formed from the 2nd Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army in 1947. [47] 1768 Maratha Light Infantry: East India Company: Company Raj India: The Maratha Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It traces its lineage to the Bombay Sepoys, raised in 1768, making it the most senior light infantry regiment in the ...
This is a list of numbered Regiments of Cavalry of the British Army from the mid-18th century until 1922 when various amalgamations were implemented. The Life Guards were formed following the end of the English Civil War as troops of Life Guards between 1658 and 1659. [ 1 ]
British regular infantry and artillery regiments formed the core of the East India Company army serving under the command of British general Lord Cornwallis. After some initial setbacks, Cornwallis was ultimately victorious capturing the Mysorean capital city of Seringapatam and compelling Mysore to make peace on terms favourable to Britain.
The Corps Warrant, which is the official list of which bodies of the British Military (not to be confused with naval) Forces were to be considered Corps of the British Army for the purposes of the Army Act, the Reserve Forces Act, 1882, and the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, had not been updated since 1926 (Army Order 49 of 1926 ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")