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Cavalry and Infantry Orders of Precedence Cavalry and infantry regiments of the British Army are listed in their own orders of precedence, which dates back to when regiments had numbers rather than names. The order comes from the start of the regiment's service under the Crown, up to 1881 and the Cardwell Reforms, when the use of numbers was abolished in favour of county names. The regiments of the Household Division are always listed first, as they are the most senior, followed by the line regiments. In today's army, which has many regiments formed through amalgamations of other regiments, the rank in the order of precedence is that of the more senior of the amalgamated units. It is for this reason that the '''Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment''', one of the youngest in the army, is ranked second in the line infantry order - it is the direct descendent of the '''2nd Regiment of Foot'''. Cavalry Order of Precedence =Cavalry - Notes The 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards, were originally termed Horse Guards and given precedence over the Cavalry regiments of the Line. The 1st Royal Dragoons was a line regiment. In the sequence of Line Cavalry, Dragoon Guards have always come first in the order of precedence, with their own numbering sequence, with other cavalry in a single sequence; it is therefore possible to have in the order of precendence 1st Hussars , followed by 2nd Lancers , followed by 3rd Dragoons , and so on. Although one of the antecedent regiments of the Queen's Royal Lancers was the 5th Lancers, this regiment was formed in the 1850s, resurrecting the number of an old regiment and thus ranked in precedence after the 17th Lancers. The two individual regiments that make up the Royal Tank Regiment are not included in the order of precedence separately; the RTR (which was formed during the First World War ) takes final place in the cavalry/RAC order as a whole. Infantry Order of Precedence The infantry is ranked in the order of Foot Guards , Line Infantry , Rifles: =Infantry - Notes The infantry order of precedence has several missing numbers, due to infantry regiments being disbanded:
There are currently two regiments of line infantry that have never been amalgamated in their entire history:
However, in the years 2006-2007, these will be amalgamated into large regiments under the planned Reorganisation of the infantry. The Royal Marines , as the descendent of the old Army marine regiments of the 17th and 18th centuries, is included in the Order of Precedence when not on parade with the Royal Navy. Although the Royal Green Jackets is descended from three numbered regiments, it is last in the order of precedence because the unnumbered regiment The Rifle Brigade has served longest as a rifle regiment. The Royal Gurkha Rifles comes before the Royal Green Jackets because one of its predecessors (the 2nd Gurkhas) entered service before the Rifle Brigade ceased using its old number (95th). As both the Royal Gurkha Rifles and the Royal Green Jackets are rifle regiments they come last in the order of precedence, with only the SAS after them (the SAS does not fall into any of the other categories). This is why the Parachute Regiment, which is classed as a line infantry regiment, comes above both. New Order of Precedence Precedence within the Territorial Army (TA units take precedence after regular units) 1. The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 2. The Honourable Artillery Company 3. Royal Armoured Corps
4. Royal Regiment of Artillery (Volunteers) 5. Corps of Royal Engineer (Volunteers) 6. Royal Corps of Signals (Volunteers) 7. Infantry
8. Special Air Service
9. Army Air Corps (Volunteers) 10. The Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers) 11. Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) 12. Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Volunteers) 13. Adjutant General’s Corps (Volunteers) 14. Intelligence Corps (Volunteers) 15. The Royal Gibraltar Regiment (As a Colonial Force The Royal Gibraltar Regiment comes after the TA) |
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