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Pages in category "Light Infantry regiments of the British Army" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
The Elegant Extracts – 7th Regiment of Foot later Royal Fusiliers and 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) later 2nd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry [1] [3] [10] (in 1811, many of the regiment's officers were court-martialled and replaced by officers drawn from other regiments.
Two more light infantry regiments subsequently joined the British Army, as the 105th and 106th regiments, transferred from the HEIC in 1861. [ 18 ] Rifle regiments : An experimental corps of riflemen, equipped with Baker rifles and clothed in rifle green uniforms, was formed in 1800, and numbered as the 95th foot in 1802. [ 22 ]
3rd or Royal Westminster Middlesex Militia (Light Infantry) 4th Battalion, The Rifles; 5th Battalion, The Rifles; 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles; 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot; 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot; 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry)
In later years, the British Army raised full line infantry regiments classed as light infantry, who operated with muskets alongside specialised regiments armed with rifles. Rifles – in the late eighteenth century, the development of the Baker rifle led to the commissioning by the British Army of regiments specially trained to use the new weapon.
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; 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot - 1 Battalion; 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions from 1803-1815
Infantry Depot J at Farnborough was the headquarters for the six English light infantry regiments and Infantry Depot O at Winchester was the headquarters for the two rifle regiments and the Middlesex Regiment. [24] In 1948, the depots adopted names and this became the Light Infantry Brigade and Green Jackets Brigade. [25]