A Guide to finding a Regiment on a large War Memorial

given by Don Brown, Normandy Veterans Association

 

On memorials such as the Menin Gate and all Common Wealth War Memorials the casualties are given by regiment and they inturn are given in Army List Order. The Army List is neither alphabetical or geographical, but the following may help when looking for regiments or relatives. The column headed SD indicates in which part of 'Soldiers died on the Great War' the regiment will be found and O denotes 'Officers died in the Great War'. The heading 1881 indicates the numbers of marching regiments of Foot which were the predecessors of the regiments of the 1914. The official names during the War are given below but some were changed slightly in the early 1920's. Commonwealth troops are found after the United Kingdom troops. A simple rule for the order of troops is :- Cavelry, Artillery, Engineers, Infantry.

 

SD 1881 Regiment Title
O   Commands & Staff (mostly general officers and full colonels
1   1st Life Guards
1   2nd Life Guards
1   Royal Horse Guards
1   1st King's Dragoon Guards
1   2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)
1   3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
1   4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
1   5th (Princess Charlotte of Wale's) Dragoon Guards
1   6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
1   7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
1   1st (Royal) Dragoons
1   2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys0
1   3rd (King's Own) Hussars
1   4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
1   5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
1   6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
1   7th (Queen's Own) Hussars
1   8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars
1   9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
1   10th Prince of Wales's Own Royal Hussars
1   11th Prince Albert's Own Hussars
1   12th (Prince of Wale's Royal) Lancers
1   13th Hussars
1   14th (King's) Hussars
1   15th (KIng's) Hussars
1   16th (Queen's) Lancers
1   17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
1   18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
1   19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
1   20th Hussars
1   21st Lancers (Empress of India's)
1   Yeomanry Regiments (ommitted for no other reason than space)
2   Royal Horse Artillery
2   Field Horse Artillery
3   Royal Garrison Artillery
4   Corps of Royal Engineers
5   Grenadier Guards
5   Coldstream Guards
5   Scots Guards
5   Irish Guards
5   Welsh Guards (raised 1915)
5   Guards Machine Gun Regiment (raised 1917)
6 1 Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
7 2 Queens's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8 3 Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
9 4 King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
10 5 Northumberland Fusiliers
11 6 Royal Warwickshire Regiment
12 7 Royal Fusiliers (City of London regiment)
13 8 King's (Liverpool Regiment)
14 9 Norfolk Regiment
15 10 Lincolnshire Regimetn
16 11 Devonshire Regiment
17 12 Suffolk Regiment
18 13 Prince Albert's (Sommersetshire Ligth Infantry)
19 14 Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
20 15 East Yorkshire Reginment
21 16 Bedfordshire Regiment
22 17 Leicestershire Regiment
23 18 Royal Irish Regiment
24 19 Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
25 20 Lancashire Fusiliers
26 21 Royal Scots Fusiliers
27 22 Cheshire Regiment
28 23 Royal Welsh Fusiliers
29 24 South Wales borderers
20 25 King's Own Scorrish borderers
31 26/90 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
32 28/108 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
33 28/61 Gloucestershire Regiment
34 29/36 Worcestershire Regiment
35 30/59 East Lancashire Regiment
36 31/70 East Surrey Regiment
37 32/46 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
38 33/76 Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
39 34/55 Border Regiment
40 35/107 Royal Sussex Regiment
41 37/67 Hampshire Regiment
42 38/80 South Staffordshire Regiment
43 39/54 Dorsetshire Regiment
44 40/82 Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment
45 41/69 Welsh Regiment
46 42/73 Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
47 43/52 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
48 44/56 Essex Regiment
49 45/95 Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment
50 47/81 Loyal North Lancaster Regiment
51 48/58 Northamptonshire Regiment
52 49/99 Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
53 50/97 Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
54 51/105 King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
55 53/85 King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
56 57/77 Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
57 60 King's Royal Rifle Corps
58 62/99 Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
59 63/96 Manchester Regiment
60 64/98 Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
61 65/84 York and Lancaster Regiment
62 68/106 Durham Light Infantry
63 71/74 Highland Light Infantry
64 72/78 Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffas, Duke of Albany's)
65 75/92 Gordon Highlanders
66 79 Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
67 83/86 Royal Irish Rifles
68 87/89 Princ ess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
69 88/94 Connaught Rangers
70 91/93 Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
71 100/109 Prince of Wales's Leicester Regiment (Royal Canadians)
72 101/104 Royal Munster Fusiliers
73 102/103 Royal Dublin Fusiliers
74   Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
77   Army Cyclist Corps (raised 1914)
75   Machine Gun Corps (raised 1915)
75   Tank Corps (raised 1916)
80   Labour Corps (raised 1917)
76   Honourable Artillery Company
77   Monmouthshire Regiment
77   Cambridgeshire Regiment
76   London Regiment
76   Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps
77   Hertfordshire Regiment
77   Herefordshire Regiment
77   Northern Cyclist Battalion
77   Highland Cyclist Battalion
77   Kent Cyclist Battalion
77   Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion
77   Royal Defence Corps (raised 1916)
78   Army Service Corps
79   Royal Army Medical Corps
80   Army Veterinary Corps
O   Royal Army Chaplains' Department
O   Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
80   Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps
80   Army Ordnance Corps
80   Army Pay Corps
80   Corps of Army Schoolmasters
80   Corps of Military Police
80   Corps of the Small Arms School
80   Military Provost Staff Corps
80   Non-Combatant Corps (raised 1916)
80   Channel Island Militia

 

 

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