Succession of Titles by Infantry
| Regt of Foot | 1881 | 1959 | 1968/70 | 1992/4 | 2006/7 | ||||
| Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards | |||||
| Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards | |||||
| Scots Guards | Scots Guards | Scots Guards | Scots Guards | Scots Guards | |||||
| Irish Guards | Irish Guards | Irish Guards | Irish Guards | ||||||
| Welsh Guards | Welsh Guards | Welsh Guards | Welsh Guards | ||||||
| 1 | Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) |
Royal Scots (Royal Regiment) | Royal Scots (Royal Regiment) | Royal Scots (Royal Regiment) | Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Bn Royal Regt of Scotland | ||||
| 25 | The King’s Own Borderers | King’s Own Scottish Borderers | King’s Own Scottish Borderers | King’s Own Scottish Borderers | |||||
| 21 | Royal Scots Fusiliers | Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) | Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) | Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) | Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Bn Royal Regt of Scotland | ||||
71 & 74 |
Highland Light Infantry |
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| 42 | Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) | Black Watch, 3rd Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland | ||||
| 72 & 78 | Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany’s Own) | Queen’s Own Highlanders | Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Cameron) |
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) |
The Highlanders, 4th Bn Royal Regt of Scotland | ||||
| 79 | Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders | ||||||||
| 75 & 92 | Gordon Highlanders |
Gordon Highlanders | Gordon Highlanders | ||||||
| 91 & 93 | Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Bn Royal Regt of Scotland | ||||
| 2 | Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) | Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment | Queen’s Regiment |
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment | Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment | ||||
| 31 & 70 | East Surrey Regiment | ||||||||
| 3 | Buffs (East Kent Regiment) | Queen’s Own Buffs | |||||||
| 50 & 97 | Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) |
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| 35 & 107 | Royal Sussex Regiment |
Royal Sussex Regiment | |||||||
| 57 & 77 | Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) |
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) |
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| 37 & 67 |
Hampshire Regiment | Royal Hampshire Regiment | Royal Hampshire Regiment |
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| 4 | King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment | King’s Own Royal Border Regiment |
King’s Own Royal Border Regiment |
King’s Own Royal Border Regiment |
1st Bn, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s Lancashire and Border) | ||||
| 34 & 35 |
Border Regiment | ||||||||
| 8 | King’s (Liverpool Regiment) | King’s Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) | King’s Regiment | King’s Regiment | |||||
| 63 & 69 | Manchester Regiment | ||||||||
| 30 & 59 | East Lancashire Regiment | Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) |
Queen’s Lancashire Regiment | Queen’s Lancashire Regiment | 2nd Bn, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border) | ||||
| 40 & 82 | Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) | ||||||||
| 47 & 81 | Loyal North Lancashire Regiment | Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) | |||||||
| 5 | Northumberland Fusiliers | Royal Northumberland Fusiliers | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ||||
| 6 | Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
Royal Warwickshire Regiment | |||||||
| 7 | Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) | Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) | |||||||
| 20 | Lancashire Fusiliers | Lancashire Fusiliers | |||||||
| 9 | Norfolk Regiment | 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) |
Royal Anglian Regiment | Royal Anglian Regiment | Royal Anglian Regiment | ||||
| 12 | Suffolk Regiment | ||||||||
| 10 | Lincolnshire Regiment Northamptonshire Regiment | 2nd East Anglian Regiment | |||||||
| 48 & 58 | |||||||||
| 16 | Bedfordshire Regiment | 3rd East Anglian Regiment
(16th/44th Foot) |
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| 44 & 56 | Essex Regiment | ||||||||
| 17 | Leicestershire Regiment | Royal Leicestershire Regiment | |||||||
| 11 | Devonshire Regiment | Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | 1st Bn, The Rifles | ||||
| 39 & 54 | Dorset Regiment | ||||||||
| 28 & 61 | Gloucestershire Regiment | Gloucestershire Regiment | Gloucestershire Regiment | Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment | |||||
| 49 & 66 | Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Berkshire Regiment) | Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment | Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) | ||||||
| 62 & 99 | Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) | ||||||||
| 13 | Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) | Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry | 1st Bn Light Infantry | The Light Infantry | 3rd and 5th Battalions The Rifles |
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| 32 & 46 | Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry | ||||||||
| 53 & 85 | King’s Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) | King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 2nd Bn Light Infantry | ||||||
| 51 & 105 | King’s Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) | King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry | 3rd Bn Light Infantry | ||||||
| 68 & 106 | Durham Light Infantry | Durham Light Infantry | 4th Bn Light Infantry | ||||||
43 & 52 |
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
1st Green Jackets (43rd
and 52nd) 2nd Green Jackets King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
Royal Green Jackets | Royal Green Jackets | 2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles |
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| Rifle Brigade (Prince
Consort’s Own) |
3rd Green Jackets The Rifle Brigade |
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| 14 | Prince of Wales’s Own
(West Yorkshire Regiment) |
Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire |
Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire |
Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire |
1st Bn, The Yorkshire Regiment | ||||
| 15 | East Yorkshire Regiment | ||||||||
| 19 | Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) | Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) | Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) | Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) | 2nd Bn The Yorkshire Regiment | ||||
| 33 & 76 | Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) | Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) | Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) | Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) | 3rd Bn The Yorkshire Regiment | ||||
| 22 | Cheshire Regiment | Cheshire Regiment | Cheshire Regiment | Cheshire Regiment | 1st Bn, The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) | ||||
| 29 & 36 | Worcestershire Regiment | Worcestershire Regiment | Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) | Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters | 2nd Bn The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters) | ||||
| 45 & 95 | Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) | Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | |||||||
| 38 & 80 | South Staffordshire Regiment | Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) | Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) | Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) | 3rd Bn, The Mercian Regiment (Staffords) | ||||
| 64 & 98 | Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) | ||||||||
| 23 | Royal Welsh Fusiliers | Royal Welch Fusiliers (since 1920) | Royal Welch Fusiliers | Royal Welch Fusiliers | 1st Bn The Royal Welsh (The Royal Welch Fusiliers) | ||||
| 24 | South Wales Borderers | South Wales Borderers |
Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) | Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) | 2nd Bn The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales) | ||||
| 41 & 69 | Welsh Regiment | Welch Regiment | |||||||
| 27 & 108 | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th) | Royal Irish Regiment (on amalgamation with the Ulster Defence Regiment) |
Royal Irish Regiment | ||||
| 83 & 86 | Royal Ulster Rifles | Royal Ulster Rifles | |||||||
| 87 & 89 | Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers) |
Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) | |||||||
| Parachute Regiment | Parachute Regiment | Parachute Regiment | Parachute Regiment | ||||||
| 18 | Royal Irish Regiment | Disbanded 1922 | |||||||
| 26 & 90 | Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) |
Disbanded 1968 | |||||||
| 65 & 84 | York and Lancaster Regiment |
Suspended animation 1968 | |||||||
| 88 & 94 | Connaught Rangers | Disbanded 1922 | |||||||
| 100 & 109 | Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) | Disbanded 1922 | |||||||
| 101 & 104 | Royal Munster Fusiliers | Disbanded 1922 | |||||||
| 102 & 103 | Royal Dublin Fusiliers | Disbanded 1922 | |||||||
| 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) | 2nd King Edward VII’s
Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
Royal Gurkha Rifles | Royal Gurkha Rifles | |||||
| 6th Gurkha Rifles | 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles |
6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles |
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| 7th Gurkha Rifles | 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles | 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles | |||||||
| 10th Gurkha Rifles | 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles |
10th Princess Mary’s
Own Gurkha Rifles |
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Special Air Service Regiment |
Special Air Service Regiment | Special Air Service Regiment | Special Air Service Regiment | ||||||