The units listed below are shown in the order of precedence as of July 1881. Prior to 1881, infantry regiment were known by the numbers in the column on the right. Where infantry units are followed by two numbers, the numbers represent regiments that were amalgamated to form the new unit. For example, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were formed from the 102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers and the 103rd Royal Bombay Fusiliers. This page also contains more information on Cardwell's reforms.
Except for the 15th Hussars and the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, every regiment or corps in the British Army served in the Boer War. In the case of some infantry regiments, only one of their two battalions was present.
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
1st (Royal) Dragoons
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
13th Hussars
14th (The King's) Hussars
15th (The King's) Hussars
16th (The Queen's) Lancers
17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
18th (Victoria Mary, Prince of Wales's Own) Hussars
19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
20th Hussars
21st Lancers
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Corps of Royal Engineers
Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards
| Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) from 1st |
| Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) from 2nd |
| Buffs (East Kent Regiment) from 3rd |
| King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) from 4th |
| Northumberland Fusiliers from 5th |
| Royal Warwickshire Regiment from 6th |
| Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) from 7th |
| King's (Liverpool Regiment) from 8th |
| Norfolk Regiment from 9th |
| Lincolnshire Regiment from 10th |
| Devonshire Regiment from 11th |
| Suffolk Regiment from 12th |
| (Prince Albert's) Somerset Light Infantry from 13th |
| Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) from 14th |
| East Yorkshire Regiment from 15th |
| Bedfordshire Regiment from 16th |
| Leicestershire Regiment from 17th |
| Royal Irish Regiment from 18th |
| Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) from 19th |
| Lancashire Fusiliers from 20th |
| Royal Scots Fusiliers from 21st |
| Cheshire Regiment from 22nd |
| Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 23rd |
| South Wales Borderers from 24th |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers from 25th |
| Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) from 26th and 90th |
| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from 27th and 108th |
| Gloucestershire Regiment from 28th and 61st |
| Worcestershire Regiment from 29th and 36th |
| East Lancashire Regiment from 30th and 59th |
| East Surrey Regiment from 31st and 70th |
| Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry from 32nd and 46th |
| Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) from 33rd and 76th |
| Border Regiment from 34th and 55th |
| Royal Sussex Regiment from 35th and 107th |
| Hampshire Regiment from 37th and 67th |
| South Staffordshire Regiment from 38th and 80th |
| Dorsetshire Regiment from 39th and 54th |
| Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) from 40th and 82nd |
| Welsh Regiment from 41st and 69th |
| Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) from 42nd and 73rd |
| Oxfordshire Light Infantry from 43rd and 52nd |
| Essex Regiment from 44th and 56th |
| Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) from 45th and 95th |
| Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 47th and 81st |
| Northamptonshire Regiment from 48th and 58th |
| (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Berkshire Regiment from 49th and 66th |
| (Queen's Own) Royal West Kent Regiment from 50th and 97th |
| King's Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) from 51st and 105th |
| (King's) Shropshire Light Infantry from 53rd and 85th |
| (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment from 57th and 77th |
| King's Royal Rifle Corps from 60th |
| (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wiltshire Regiment from 62nd and 99th |
| Manchester Regiment from 63rd and 96th |
| (Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment from 64th and 98th |
| York and Lancaster Regiment from 65th and 84th |
| Durham Light Infantry from 68th and 106th |
| Highland Light Infantry from 71st and 74th |
| Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs) from 72nd and 78th |
| Gordon Highlanders from 75th and 92nd |
| (Queen's Own) Cameron Highlanders from 79th |
| Royal Irish Rifles from 83rd and 86th |
| (Princess Victoria's) Royal Irish Fusiliers from 87th and 89th |
| Connaught Rangers from 88th and 94th |
| (Princess Louise's) Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders from 91st and 93rd |
| Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) from 100th and 109th |
| Royal Munster Fusiliers from 101st and 104th |
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Royal Dublin Fusiliers from 102nd and 103rd (Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade. [unnumbered since 1816] |
Commissariat and Transport Corps
Army Hospital Corps
Army Ordnance Corps
Corps of Military Mounted Police
Corps of Army Schoolmasters
Army Chaplain's Department
Army Pay Department
Army Veterinary Department
Army Nursing Service
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