31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot

Colours of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot

Active| 1702-1881
Country|  Kingdom of England (1702–1707)

Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)

United Kingdom (1801–1881)
Allegiance|  British Army
Type| Infantry
Garrison/HQ| The Barracks, Kingston upon Thames
Nickname(s)| The Young Buffs
Colors| Buff facings
Engagements| War of the Austrian Succession
American Revolutionary War
Peninsular War
First Anglo-Afghan War
Crimean War

Military unit

The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment in 1881.

## History

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### Origins

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Soldier of the 31st Foot in 1742

In 1694, during the Nine Years' War, Sir Richard Atkins was authorised to raise a regiment of foot for service in Ireland. Sir Richard Atkins's Regiment of Foot was duly formed. In 1694 the colonelcy of the unit changed and it became Colonel George Villier's Regiment of Foot. With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 the war came to an end. Villier's Regiment was duly disbanded in 1698.[1]

By 1702 England was again involved in a European conflict which became known as the War of the Spanish Succession.[2] Villiers was commissioned to reform his regiment as marines.[3] In February 1702 George Villier's Regiment of Marines (or the 2nd Regiment of Marines) was reraised.[4]

The unit took part in the capture and defence of Gibraltar in July 1704.[5] It subsequently took part in a number of actions in Spain and the Mediterranean, including the capture of Barcelona and Majorca.[6] The regiment's title changed with the name of its colonel: Alexander Luttrell in 1703, Joshua Churchill in 1706 and Sir Henry Goring in 1711.[1]

With the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 the war came to an end.[7] The majority of the marine regiments were disbanded, with some retained and converted to line infantry. Gorings Marines were one of these and became Sir Henry Goring's Regiment of Foot, with precedence as the 31st regiment of foot.[4][1][3] The unit saw action repelling the Jacobite rising of 1715.[8] They then spent twenty-six years manning garrisons in Ireland and England.[8]

### War of the Austrian Succession

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The regiment sailed to Flanders in summer 1742[9] and took part in the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743.[3][10] It was at this engagement that the unit received the nickname "Young Buffs". They were part of a force led into action by King George II who mistook them for the 3rd Regiment of Foot, who were known as '"the Buffs" due to their buff facings and waistcoats, the sovereign called out, "Bravo, Buffs! Bravo!". When one of his aides, an officer of the 3rd Regiment of Foot, corrected the monarch, he then cheered, "Bravo, Young Buffs! Bravo!".[3] It was subsequently at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745, where it suffered heavy losses,[11] and the Battle of Melle in July 1745,[12] returning to England in October 1745.[3] The regiment was posted to Menorca in 1749.[8]

On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant was issued declaring that in future regiments were no longer to be known by their colonel's name, but by the "Number or Rank of the Regiment". Accordingly, Lieutenant-General Henry Holmes's Regiment was renamed as the 31st Regiment of Foot.[13] The regiment returned to the United Kingdom in 1752.[14] A second battalion was formed in 1756, and was reconstituted as the 70th Regiment of Foot in 1758.[8] The regiment embarked for Pensacola in Florida in 1765 but suffered heavy losses there due to fever.[15] The regiment moved to Saint Vincent in 1772 and lost its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Walsh, in an ambush by local tribesmen in January 1773.[16] The regiment returned to England in 1774.[17]

### American Revolutionary War

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In May 1776 the regiment arrived in Quebec for service in the American War of Independence.[17] It saw action at the Siege of Fort Ticonderoga in July 1777[18] but many of its men were taken prisoner at the Battles of Saratoga in September 1777.[8][19] In 1782 all regiments of the line without a royal title were given a county designation and the regiment became the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot.[4] Following the ending of that war the regiment formed part of the garrison of Quebec before returning to England in November 1787.[8][20] The regiment was involved in suppressing the Priestley Riots in Birmingham in July 1791.[21]

### French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

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Arms of John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, with augmentation of honour granted in 1815 by the Prince Regent of in bend sinister a representation of the colour of the 31st Regiment of Foot, in recognition of his heroic action at the Battle of the Nive.

The regiment took part in the capture of Martinique in March 1794, the capture of Guadeloupe in April 1794[22] and the capture of Saint Lucia in May 1796[23] but suffered heavy losses due to fever before returning to England in 1797.[24] It was also involved in the Battle of Alkmaar in October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.[25] The regiment was then posted to Menorca in 1801.[26] A 2nd battalion was again formed in 1805[1] and the regiment next took part in the Alexandria expedition in 1807.[27] The 1st Battalion was stationed on Sicily in 1813. In March 1814, the 1st Battalion embarked for Northern Italy. Alongside the 8th Line Battalion, King's German Legion it took part in the Siege of Genoa (1814).[28][29]

A second battalion was initiated October 1804 at the regimental HQ in Chester and embodied in July 1805. Posted to Winchester and then Guernsey, it moved to Ireland in May 1807. Recruits were drawn from the Manchester Militia and also from the Irish Militia. Later, the 1st and 2nd Garrison Battalions also provided men before the move to Ireland and Limerick where officers travelled across the country to recruit from many Militia – including Clare, Kilkenny, Sligo, South Cork, Louth, Kerry, Leitrim, City of Limerick, Londonderry – men were also regularly recruited from Dublin and Enniskillen – so that numbers were also almost doubled (a small group also joined, presumably as light infantry, from the North Devon militia). Prior to departing to the Peninsula in October 1808, women were required to leave; 92 went to Ireland and 20 went to England, possibly reflecting the make up of the battalion.[30]

Scheduled to go to A Coruña, the battalion disembarked with the 3rd battalion of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot at Lisbon to release some experienced troops.[31] After a period of movement in Portugal, the battalion joined Arthur Wellesley's first, short-lived, push into Spain. As part of Major-General John Randoll Mackenzie's Division, the battalion was placed some miles in advance of Talavera to cover the movement of Gregorio García de la Cuesta's Spanish army back to defensive positions. The battalion sustained many casualties and had many soldiers captured in the Battle of Talavera in July 1809. Captain William Lodge was killed in action. In addition, Captain Coleman, Lieutenants George Beamish, Adderly Beamish and Girdlestone, and Ensigns Gamble and Soden and their medical officer Henry Edwards were all wounded and taken prisoner (Edwards subsequently dying).[32]

The battalion also took part in the Battle of Albuera in May 1811,[33] and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813[34] and, having pursued the French Army into France, the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813[35] and the Battle of Orthez in February 1814.[4][36] The regiment was reduced to a single battalion regiment on 24 October 1814 when the second battalion was disbanded at Portsmouth.[37]

### First Anglo-Afghan War

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The Burning of the Kent, William Daniell, RA, c.1825, Museum of the Queen's Royal Surreys

Following years of garrison duty in various stations in Europe, in 1824 the regiment were ordered to India under Colonel Pearson and Major McGrego. Some 54 men of the regiment died on 1 March 1825 when their transport, the East Indiaman Kent caught fire in the Bay of Biscay.[38] One woman and 20 children affiliated with the regiment also died. The remainder of the 20 officers, 344 soldiers, 43 women, and 66 children, belonging to the regiment that had embarked on the vessel were rescued. As the official record expresses it: "In the midst of dangers against which it seemed hopeless to struggle-at a time when no aid appeared, and passively to die was all that remained-each man displayed the manly resignation, the ready obedience, and the unfailing discipline characteristics of a good soldier."[39] With the outbreak of the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1839, the regiment moved to Afghanistan and fought with Sir George Pollock's avenging army at the Battle of Kabul in autumn 1842.[4][40]

### The Victorian era

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The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out in 1845. The regiment, who had returned to India from Afghanistan in 1840, were part of the British force at the Battle of Mudki in December 1845,[41] the Battle of Ferozeshah also in December 1845,[42] the Battle of Aliwal in January 1846[43] and the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846.[4][3][44] The regiment arrived back in England in December 1846.[45] In 1854 the regiment sailed to the Crimea, and fought at the Siege of Sevastopol in winter 1854.[46]

The regiment next saw active service in China, moving there in 1860 during the Second Opium War and taking part in the capture of the Taku Forts. The regiment remained in China until 1863, and was involved in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion.[4][8] For the regiment's remaining separate existence it was based at various garrisons in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Malta.[8]

As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 31st was linked with the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 47 at The Barracks, Kingston upon Thames.[47] On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot to form the East Surrey Regiment.[4] The 70th had originally been formed as the regiment's 2nd Battalion in 1756.[4]

## Battle honours

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The regiment was granted the following battle honours:[48]

* Talavera (27 July 1809: awarded 1823)
* Albuhera (16 May 1811: awarded 1816)
* Vittoria (21 June 1813: awarded 1823)
* Pyrenees (28 July - 2 August 1813: awarded 1817)
* Nivelle (10 November 1813: awarded 1823)
* Nive (9 - 13 December 1813: awarded 1823)
* Orthes (27 February 1814: awarded 1847)
* Peninsula (1808 - 1814: awarded to 2nd Battalion in 1815, to whole regiment in 1825)

* Cabool, 1842 (August - September 1842: awarded 1844)
* Moodkee (18 December 1845: awarded 1847)
* Ferozeshah (21 December 1845: awarded 1847)
* Aliwal (28 January 1846: awarded 1847)
* Sobraon (10 February 1846: awarded 1849)
* Sevastopol (1854 - 1855: awarded 1855)
* Taku Forts (12 August 1860: awarded 1861)

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Two further honours were granted to the successor East Surrey Regiment for the services of the regiment. In 1882 the battle honour "Dettingen" was allowed and in 1909 "Gibraltar 1704-1705" was awarded.[48]

## Colonels

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Colonels of the regiment have been as follows:[49]

* 17û2–1703: Col George Villiers
* 1703–1706: Col Alexander Luttrell
* 1706–1711: Col Joshua Churchill
* 1711–1715: Col Sir Henry Goring, Bt.

### 31st Regiment of Foot

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* 1715–1728: Major-Gen Lord John Kerr
* 1728–1730: Major-Gen Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart
* 1730–1737: Lt-Gen William Hargrave
* 1737–1745: Brig-Gen William Handasyde
* 1745–1749: Col Lord Henry Beauclerk
* 1749–1762: Lt-Gen Henry Holmes
* 1762–1780: Lt-Gen Sir James Adolphus Oughton KB
* 1780–1792: Gen Thomas Clarke

### 31st Huntingdonshire Regiment

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* 1792–1793: Major-Gen James Stuart
* 1793–1831: Gen Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave GCB
* 1831–1834: Gen Sir Henry Warde GCB
* 1834–1838: Lt-Gen Sir Edward Barnes GCB
* 1838–1847: Gen Sir Colin Halkett GCB GCH
* 1847–1853: Gen Henry Otway Brand-Trevor, 21st Lord Dacre CB
* 1853–1859: Gen Sir Alexander Leith KCB
* 1859–1862: Gen Sir Patrick Edmonstone Craigie KCB
* 1862–1881: Gen Sir Edward Lugard GCB

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
2. ^ Cannon, p. 3
3. ^ a b c d e f Rudolf, p. 309–317
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Swinson, p. 128
5. ^ Cannon, p. 7
6. ^ Cannon, p. 9
7. ^ Cannon, p. 14
8. ^ a b c d e f g h "1st Bn., The East Surrey Regiment: Service". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
9. ^ Cannon, p. 21
10. ^ Cannon, p. 22
11. ^ Cannon, p. 26
12. ^ Cannon, p. 28
13. ^ Edwards, p. 194–197
14. ^ Cannon, p. 30
15. ^ Cannon, p. 33
16. ^ Cannon, p. 34
17. ^ a b Cannon, p. 35
18. ^ Cannon, p. 37
19. ^ Cannon, p. 40
20. ^ Cannon, p. 43
21. ^ Cannon, p. 44
22. ^ Cannon, p. 46
23. ^ Cannon, p. 52
24. ^ Cannon, p. 54
25. ^ Cannon, p. 56
26. ^ Cannon, p. 62
27. ^ Cannon, p. 67
28. ^ Cannon, pp. 70-73
29. ^ Nafziger & Gioannini 2002, p. 224.
30. ^ WO12/4722 Pay books in the National Archives
31. ^ Pearse (2014)
32. ^ Cannon, p. 193
33. ^ Cannon, p. 197
34. ^ Cannon, p. 204
35. ^ Cannon, p. 208
36. ^ Cannon, p. 211
37. ^ Cannon, p. 74
38. ^ Cannon, p. 81
39. ^ Huggins, William J. (1825). "The Kent". Dawlish Chronicles. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
40. ^ Cannon, p. 110
41. ^ Cannon, p. 120
42. ^ Cannon, p. 130
43. ^ Cannon, p. 141
44. ^ Cannon, p. 145
45. ^ Cannon, p. 175
46. ^ "31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot". National Army Museum. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
47. ^ "Training Depots". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 10 February 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
48. ^ a b Sumner, p. 26–28
49. ^ "31st Regiment of Foot: Colonels". British Empire. Retrieved 5 July 2016.

## Sources

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* Cannon, Richard (1850). Historical record of the Thirty-first, or, The Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702 and its subsequent services to 1850. Historical records of the British Army. Parker, Furnivall and Parker.
* Edwards, T J (1953). Standards, Guidons and Colours of the Commonwealth Forces. Aldershot: Gale & Polden.
* Nafziger, George F.; Gioannini, Marco (2002). The defense of the Napoleonic kingdom of Northern Italy, 1813-1814. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-07531-5.
* Pearce, Hugh W. (2014). History of the East Surrey Regiment 1702–1914. Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1847341006.
* Rudolf, R de M (1905). Short History of the Territorial Regiments of the British Army. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
* Sumner, Ian (2001). British Colours & Standards 1747 - 1881 (2): Infantry. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-201-6.
* Swinson, Arthur (1972). A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. London: The Archive Press. ISBN 0-85591-000-3.

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Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Predecessors|

| 1st generation|

* Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (1661–1881)
* 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot (1702–1881)
* 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1758–1958)
* 3rd (East Kent, The Buff's) Regiment of Foot (1572–1961)
* 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot (1755–1881)
* 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot (1824–1881)
* 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot (1701–1881)
* 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment of Foot (1862–1881)
* 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (1755–1881)
* 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (1787–1881)
* 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (1702–1881)
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (1758–1881)

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2nd generation|

* East Surrey Regiment (1881–1959)
* Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (1881–1961)
* Royal Sussex Regiment (1881–1966)
* Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) (1881–1966)
* Royal Hampshire Regiment (1881–1992)

3rd generation|

* Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment (1959–1966)
* Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment (1961–1966)

4th generation|

* Queen's Regiment (1966–1992)

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Regiments of foot 1740–1881

* 1st or The Royal Scots
* 2nd (Queen's Royal)
* 3rd (East Kent - The Buffs)
* 4th (The King's Own Royal)
* 5th (Northumberland) (Fusiliers)
* 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire)
* 7th (Royal Fusiliers)
* 8th (The King's)
* 9th (East Norfolk)
* 10th (North Lincoln)
* 11th (North Devonshire)
* 12th (East Suffolk)
* 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry)
* 14th (Buckinghamshire - The Prince of Wales's Own)
* 15th (York, East Riding)
* 16th (Bedfordshire)
* 17th (Leicestershire)
* 18th (The Royal Irish)
* 19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding - Princess of Wales's Own)
* 20th (East Devonshire)
* 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers)
* 22nd (Cheshire)
* 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
* 24th (2nd Warwickshire)
* 25th (King's Own Borderers)
* 26th (Cameronian)
* 27th (Inniskilling)
* 28th (North Gloucestershire)
* 29th (Worcestershire)
* 30th (Cambridgeshire)
* 31st (Huntingdonshire)
* 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry
* 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's)
* 34th (Cumberland)
* 35th (Royal Sussex)
* 36th (Herefordshire)
* 37th (North Hampshire)
* 38th (1st Staffordshire)
* 39th (Dorsetshire)
* 40th (2nd Somersetshire)
* 41st (The Welsh)
* 42nd (Oglethorpe's)
* 42nd (The Royal Highland) (The Black Watch)
* 43rd (Spotswood's)
* 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry)
* 44th (1st Marines)
* 44th (East Essex)
* 45th (2nd Marines)
* 45th (Nottinghamshire Sherwood Foresters)
* 46th (3rd Marines)
* 46th (South Devonshire)
* 47th Regiment (4th Marines)
* 47th (Lancashire)
* 48th (5th Marines)
* 48th (Northamptonshire)
* 49th (6th Marines)
* 49th (Hertfordshire - Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
* 50th (7th Marines)
* 50th (American Provincials)
* 50th (The Queen's Own)
* 51st (8th Marines)
* 51st Regiment of Foot (Cape Breton Regiment)
* 51st (2nd York, West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry)
* 52nd (9th Marines)
* 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)
* 53rd (10th Marines)
* 53rd (Shropshire)
* 54th (West Norfolk)
* 55th (Westmorland)
* 56th (West Essex)
* 57th (West Middlesex)
* 58th (Rutlandshire)
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire)
* 60th (De Grangues's)
* 60th (The King's Royal Rifle Corps)
* 61st (Gooch's)
* 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
* 62nd (Baterau's)
* 62nd (Royal American)
* 62nd (1st Highland Battalion)
* 62nd (Wiltshire)
* 63rd (American)
* 63rd (2nd Highland Battalion)
* 63rd (West Suffolk)
* 64th (Loudon's Highlanders)
* 64th (Draper's)
* 64th (2nd Staffordshire)
* 65th (Shirley's)
* 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding)
* 66th (Pepperrell's)
* 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot
* 67th (Bolton's)
* 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
* 68th (Bedford's)
* 68th (Durham) (Light Infantry)
* 69th (South Lincolnshire)
* 70th (Surrey)
* 71st (1758-1763)
* 71st (Fraser's Highlanders)
* 71st (Invalids)
* 71st (Highland Light Infantry)
* 72nd (1758–1763)
* 72nd (Invalids)
* 72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers)
* 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders)
* 73rd (1758–1763)
* 73rd (Invalids)
* 73rd (Highland)
* 73rd (Perthshire)
* 74th (1758–1763)
* 74th (Invalids)
* 74th (Argyleshire Highlanders)
* 74th (Highland)
* 75th (1758–1763)
* 75th (Invalids)
* 75th (Prince of Wales's Regiment)
* 75th (Stirlingshire)
* 76th (1758–1763)
* 76th (MacDonald's Highlanders)
* 76th Regiment of Foot
* 77th (Montgomery's Highlanders)
* 77th (Atholl Highlanders)
* 77th (East Middlesex) (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
* 78th (Fraser's Highlanders)
* 78th (Highland)
* 78th (Highland) (The Ross-shire Buffs)
* 79th (1758-1763)
* 79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers)
* 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders)
* 80th (Light Armed)
* 80th (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)
* 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers)
* 81st (Invalids)
* 81st (Aberdeenshire Highland)
* 81st (1793)
* 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)
* 82nd (invalids)
* 82nd (1777)
* 82nd (1793)
* 82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
* 83rd (1757-1763)
* 83rd (Royal Glasgow Volunteers)
* 83rd (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)
* 83rd (County of Dublin)
* 84th (1758-1764)
* 84th (Royal Highland Emigrants)
* 84th (York and Lancaster)
* 85th (Royal Volontiers Light Infantry)
* 85th (1779-1783)
* 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry)
* 86th (1759-1763)
* 86th (1779-1783)
* 86th (Royal County Down)
* 87th (Keith's Highlanders)
* 87th (1779-1783)
* 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
* 88th (Highland Volunteers)
* 88th (1779-1783)
* 88th (Connaught Rangers)
* 89th (Highland)
* 89th (1779-1783)
* 89th (Princess Victoria's)
* 90th (Irish Light Infantry)
* 90th (Yorkshire Volunteers)
* 90th (Perthshire Light Infantry)
* 91st (1759-1763)
* 91st (Shropshire Volunteers)
* 91st (1793-1795)
* 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders)
* 92nd (Donegal Light Infantry)
* 92nd (1779-1783)
* 92nd (1793-1795)
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders)
* 93rd (1760-1763)
* 93rd (1779-1783)
* 93rd (Highland) (1793-1798)
* 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders)
* 94th (Royal Welsh Volunteers)
* 94th (1780-1783)
* 94th (Irish)
* 94th (Scots Brigade)
* 94th
* 95th (1759-1763)
* 95th (1780-1783)
* 95th (1794-1796)
* 95th (Riflemen)
* 95th (1816-1818)
* 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot
* 96th (1760-1763)
* 96th (British Musketeers)
* 96th (1803-1816)
* 96th (Queen's Own Germans)
* 96th Regiment of Foot
* 97th (1760-1763)
* 97th (1780-1784)
* 97th (Inverness-shire Highlanders)
* 97th (Queen's Own Germans)
* 97th (1816-1818)
* 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot
* 98th (1760-1763)
* 98th (1780-1784)
* 98th (Argyllshire Highlanders)
* 98th (1804-1816)
* 98th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)
* 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Foot
* 99th (1760-1763)
* 99th (Jamaica Regiment)
* 99th (1794-1797)
* 99th (Prince of Wales's Tipperary)
* 99th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)
* 99th (Duke of Edinburgh's)
* 100th (Highland)
* 100th (1780-1784)
* 100th (Gordon Highlanders)
* 100th (Prince Regent's County of Dublin)
* 100th (New South Wales Corps)
* 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian)
* 101st (Highland)
* 101st (1780-1783)
* 101st (Irish)
* 101st (Duke of York's Irish)
* 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)
* 102nd (Queen's Royal Volunteers)
* 102nd (1780-1783)
* 102nd (Irish)
* 102nd (New South Wales Corps)
* 102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers)
* 103rd Regiment of Foot (Volunteer Hunters)
* 103rd Regiment of Foot (King's Irish Infantry)
* 103rd (Loyal Bristol Volunteers)
* 103rd (1809-1816)
* 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers)
* 104th (King's Volunteers)
* 104th (1782-1783)
* 104th (Royal Manchester Volunteers)
* 104th (New Brunswick )
* 104th Regiment of Foot
* 105th (Queen's Own Royal Highlanders)
* 105th (Volunteers of Ireland)
* 105th (1794-1796)
* 105th (Madras Light Infantry)
* 106th (Black Musqueteers)
* 106th (1794-1796)
* 106th (Bombay Light Infantry)
* 107th (Queen's Own Royal Regiment of British Volunteers)
* 107th 1794-1795
* 107th (Bengal Light Infantry)
* 108th (1760-1763)
* 108th (1794-1795)
* 108th (Madras Infantry)
* 109th (1761-1763)
* 109th (Aberdeenshire)
* 109th (Bombay Infantry)
* 110th (Queen's Royal Musqueteers)
* 110th (1794-1795)
* 111th (1761-1763)
* 111th (Loyal Birmingham Volunteers)
* 112th (King's Royal Musqueteers)
* 112th (1794-1795)
* 113th (Royal Highlanders)
* 113th (1794-1795)
* 114th (Royal Highlander Volunteers)
* 114th (1794-1795)
* 115th (Royal Scotch Lowlanders)
* 115th (Prince William's)
* 116th (Invalids)
* 116th (Perthshire Highlanders)
* 117th (Invalids)
* 117th (1793-1795)
* 118th (Invalids)
* 118th (1794-1795)
* 119th (The Prince's Own)
* 119th (1794-1796)
* 120th (1762-1763)
* 120th (1794-1795)
* 121st (1761-1763)
* 121st (1794-1795)
* 122nd (1762-1764)
* 122nd (1794-1796)
* 123rd (1762-1764)
* 123rd (1794-1796)
* 124th (1762-1763)
* 124th (Waterford)
* 125th
* 126th
* 127th
* 128th
* 129th
* 130th
* 131st
* 132nd (Highland)
* 133rd (Highland)
* 134th (Loyal Limerick)
* 135th (Limerick)

Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881.
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