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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 ]
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars; 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot; 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot; 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot; 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment) 101st Regiment of Foot (Duke of York's Irish) 152 (North Irish) Regiment RLC
Like other Guards regiments, the Irish Guards wear bearskins and redcoats as their ceremonial dress. Queen's Royal Hussars: 1685–present: This cavalry regiment also features among its ancestors English and Scottish forefathers, but the Irish lineage derives from the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, which later became the Queen's Royal Irish ...
The heavy cavalry consisted of twelve regiments, the 1st to 7th Dragoon Guards and the 1st to 6th Dragoons—the missing regiment was the 5th Dragoons, disbanded for mutiny in 1799 without renumbering younger regiments—while the light cavalry consisted of the 7th through 29th Light Dragoons and two regiments of German cavalry on the British ...
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Irish Regiment - 1 + 1 battalion [14]
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries including the First and Second World Wars . The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, and went on to distinguish itself in the battles of the Korean War , but was recommended for ...
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It saw service for three centuries, including the First World War . It amalgamated with the 16th The Queen's Lancers to become the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922.
The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958. The regiment saw active service against insurgents in Aden; during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and during the Gulf War, as well as ...