The Regular Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Regiments in 1900

At the end of Queen Victoria’s reign there were 31 cavalry regiments. Three Household Cavalry regiments (which had still no cap badges), seven regiments of Dragoon Guards and twenty-one regiments of Dragoons (three), Hussars (twelve) and Lancers (six).

As many first line troops were send to South Africa, short lived Royal Reserve Regiments were raised to replace them.

Contents

- The Household Cavalry -

- Dragoon Guards -

- Dragoons / Hussars /Lancers -

- The Regiments raised during the Second Boer War -


- The Household Cavalry -


	1^st Regiment of Life Guards


	2^nd Regiment of Life Guards


	The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)


- Dragoon Guards -


	1^st (King’s) Dragoon Guards


	2^nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays)


	3^rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards


	4^th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards


	5^th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoons Guards


	6^th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers)


	7^th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards


- Dragoons / Hussars / Lancers -


	1^st (Royal) Dragoons


	2^nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)


	3^rd (King’s Own) Hussars


	4^th (Queen’s Own) Hussars


	5^th (Royal Irish) Lancers


	6^th (Inniskilling) Dragoons


	7^th (Queen’s Own) Hussars


	8^th (The King’s Royal Irish) Hussars


	9^th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers


	10^th (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Royal Hussars


	11^th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars


	12^th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers


	13^th Hussars


	14^th (King’s) Hussars


	15^th (The King’s) Hussars


	16^th (The Queen’s) Lancers


	17^th (The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers


	18^th Hussars


	19^th (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars


	20^th Hussars


	21^st (Empress of India’s) Lancers


- The Regiments raised during the Second Boer War -


	The Royal Reserve Regiment of Dragoon Guards


	The Royal Reserve Regiment of Dragoons


	The Royal Reserve Regiment of Hussars


	The Royal Reserve Regiment of Lancers