Army Numbers
Corps etc.
From To
Royal Army Service Corps 1 294,000
Household Cavalry:
The Life Guards 294,001 304,000
Royal Horse Guards 304,001 309,000
Cavalry of the Line 309,001 721,000
Royal Artillery
Field Branch: Coast Defence and Anti-Aircraft
Branch 721,001 1,842,000
Royal Engineers 1,842,001 2,303,000
Royal Corps of Signals 2,303,001 2,604,000
Grenadier Guards 2,604,001 2,646,000
Coldstream Guards 2,646,001 2,688,000
Scots Guards 2,688,001 2,714,000
Irish Guards 2,714,001 2,730,000
Welsh Guards 2,730,001 2,744,000
The Black Watch 2,744,001 2,809,000
The Seaforth Highlanders 2,809,001 2,865,000
The Gordon Highlanders 2,865,001 2,921,000
The Cameron Highlanders 2,921,001 2,966,000
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 2,966,001 3,044,000
The Royal Scots 3,044,001 3,122,000
The Royal Scots Fusiliers 3,122,001 3,178,000
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers 3,178,001 3,233,000
The Cameronians 3,233,001 3,299,000
The Highland Light Infantry 3,299,001 3,377,000
The East Lancashire Regiment 3,377,001 3,433,000
The Lancashire Fusiliers 3,433,001 3,511,000
The Manchester Regiment 3,511,001 3,589,000
The Border Regiment 3,589,001 3,644,000
The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers 3,644,001 3,701,000
The King’s Own Royal Regiment 3,701,001 3,757,000
The King’s Regiment 3,757,001 3,846,000
The Loyal Regiment 3,846,001 3,902,000
The South Wales Borderers 3,902,001 3,947,000
The Welch Regiment 3,947,001 4,025,000
The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 4,025,001 4,070,000
The Monmouthshire Regiment 4,070,001 4,103,000
The Herefordshire Regiment 4,103,001 4,114,000
The Cheshire Regiment 4,114,001 4,178,000
The Royal Welch Fusiliers 4,178,001 4,256,000
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 4,256,001 4,334,000
The East Yorkshire Regiment 4,334,001 4,379,000
The Green Howards 4,379,001 4,435,000
The Durham Light Infantry 4,435,001 4,523,000
The West Yorkshire Regiment 4,523,001 4,601,000
The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 4,601,001 4,680,000
The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 4,680,001 4,736,000
The York and Lancaster Regiment 4,736,001 4,792,000
The Lincolnshire Regiment 4,792,001 4,848,000
The Leicestershire Regiment 4,848,001 4,904,000
The South Staffordshire Regiment 4,904,001 4,960,000
The Sherwood Foresters 4,960,001 5,038,000
The North Staffordshire Regiment 5,038,001 5,094,000
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 5,094,001 5,172,000
The Gloucestershire Regiment 5,172,001 5,239,000
The Worcestershire Regiment 5,239,001 5,328,000
The Royal Berkshire Regiment 5,328,001 5,373,000
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 5,373,001 5,429,000
The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 5,429,001 5,485,000
The Hampshire Regiment 5,485,001 5,562,000
The Wiltshire Regiment 5,562,001 5,608,000
The Devonshire Regiment 5,608,001 5,718,000
The Somerset Light Infantry 5,662,001 5,718,000
The Dorsetshire Regiment 5,718,001 5,763,000
The Royal Norfolk Regiment 5,763,001 5,819,000
The Suffolk Regiment 5,819,001 5,875,000
The Northamptonshire Regiment 5,875,001 5,931,000
The Cambridgeshire Regiment 5,931,001 5,942,000
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 5,942,001 5,998,000
The Essex Regiment - 5,998,001 6,076,000
The Queen’s Royal Regiment 6,076,001 6,132,000
The East Surrey Regiment 6,132,001 6,188,000
The Middlesex Regiment 6,188,001 6,278,000
The Buffs 6,278,001 6,334,000
The Royal West Kent Regiment 6,334,001 6,390,000
The Royal Sussex Regiment 6,390,001 6,446,000
The Royal Fusiliers 6,446,001 6,515,000
The Inns of Court Regiment 6,802,501 6,814,000
Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry) 6,825,001 6,837,000
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps 6,837,001 6,905,000
The Rifle Brigade 6,905,001 6,972,000
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 6,972,001 7,006,000
The Royal Ulster Rifles 7,006,001 7,040,000
The Royal Irish Fusiliers 7,040,001 7,075,000
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 7,075,001 7,109,000
Royal Irish Regiment 7,109,001 7,143,000
Connaught Rangers 7,143,001 7,177,000
Leinster Regiment 7,177,001 7,211,000
Royal Munster Fusiliers 7,211,001 7,245,000
Royal Army Medical Corps 7,245,001 7,536,000
The Army Dental Corps 7,536,001 7,539,000
Royal Guernsey Militia
& Royal Alderney Artillery Militia 7,539,001 7,560,000
Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey 7,560,001 7,574,000
Royal Army Ordnance Corps 7,574,001 7,657,000
Royal Army Pay Corps 7,657,001 7,681,000
Corps of Military Police 7,681,001 7,717,000
Military Provost Staff Corps 7,717,001 7,718,800
Small Arms School Corps 7,718,801 7,720,400
Army Education Corps 7,720,401 7,732,400
Band of the Royal Military College 7,732,401 7,733,000
Corps of Military Accountants 7,733,001 7,757,000
Royal Army Veterinary Corps 7,757,001 7,807,000
Machine Gun Corps 7,807,001 7,868,000
Royal Tank Regiment 7,868,001 7,891,868
Royal Armoured Corps 7,891,869 8,230,000
Militia 10,000,001 10,350,000
Intelligence Corps 10,350,001 10,400,000
Royal Army Pay Corps 10,400,001 10,500,000
Middle East 2nd Echelon 10,500,001 10,508,000
(for issue to Allies locally enlisted)
The Army Dental Corps 10,510,001 10,530,000
Royal Army Ordnance Corps 10,530,001 10,600,000
Reconnaissance Corps 10,600,001 10,630,000
Army Catering Corps 10,630,001 10,655,000
Army Physical Training Corps 10,655,001 10,660,000
Royal Army Service Corps 10,660,001 11,000,000
Royal Artillery
Coast Defence and Anti-Aircraft Branch 11,000,001 11,500,000
(in addition to the first batch)
Pioneer Corps 13,000,001 14,000,000
The Lowland Regiment 14,000,001 14,002,500
The Highland Regiment 14,002,501 14,005,000
General Service Corps 14,200,001 15,000,000
India 15,000,001 15,005,000
for local enlistments into British Corps and
Regiments
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 16,000,001 16,100,000
Non-Combatant Corps 97,000,001 97,100,000
The London Pegiment (TA) -
The Auxiliary Territorial Service (Women) W/1 W/500,000
Voluntary Aid Detachments W/500,000 W/1,000,000