1st King's Lancers
Cavalry/armoured regiment featured in the British television series
Redcap, episode
The Orderly Officer, broadcast 1964.
2nd South Wessex Dragoons
From the Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler novels by Anthony Price as Audley's World War II tank regiment; also featured in Keith Laumer's "For the Honor of the Regiment" as a part of the lineage of a Mark XXX Bolo of the 3rd Battalion, Dinochrome Brigade.
6th Light Dragoons
In
A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson
22nd Lancers (Duke of Suffolk's Own)
Herbert Curzon's regiment in The General by C.S. Forester
27th Lancers
In
The Charge of the Light Brigade, a 1936 film - later a real regiment
37th and 39th The Duke of Clarence's Own Lancers, The Bright Seraphim
In
Rumpole of the Bailey series 4 episode 5, 'Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim' by Sir John Mortimer
10th Sabre Squadron, 49th Earl Hamilton's Light Dragoons
In
Alms for Oblivion - a series of novels by Simon Raven
140th Hussars (Prince Arthur's Own)
From
Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley
The Dampshire Yeomanry
From the comic opera
Cox and Box (1866)
Derbyshire Dragoon Guards
In Red Cap, episode True Love.
Life Guards Greens
From various novels by William Makepeace Thackeray
Light Armoured Brigade
From the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
The North Riding Volunteers
From Downton Abbey, Lord Grantham's Yeomanry regiment.
Wessex Light Tank Armoured Brigade
From
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
The White Hussars
From "The Rout of the White Hussars" by Rudyard Kipling
1st Decadents Greens
A regiment created by King Auberon in "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" by "G.K. Chesterton".
1st Heavy Things, 3rd Heavy Nudists (Bloodnok: "Oh, what a cap badge they had!"), 3rd Regular Army Deserters, 3rd Disgusting Fusiliers, 3rd Armoured Thunderboxes, Third Mounted Cash Registers, Fourth Dynasties, Roper's Light Horse, 56th Heavy Underwater Artillery, 3rd Collapsing Fusiliers and 3rd Mounted NAAFI
Various regiments with which Major Bloodnok (played by Peter Sellers of
The Goon Show) claimed to have served, or which were otherwise mentioned in the Goon Show.
3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment ("The Devils in Skirts")
A Highland Regiment portrayed in the 1968 film
Carry On up the Khyber
4th Musketeers
From the 1967 comedy film "How I Won the War"
4/29 London Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own
Mentioned in
The General by C.S. Forester.
101st Regiment (there were several historical regiments with this number)
Harry East's regiment in
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
114th Queen's Own Royal Strathspeys
From the James Ogilvie books by Philip McCutchan aka Duncan MacNeil
117th Foot ("The Royal Mallows")
An Irish regiment mentioned in
The Adventure of the Crooked Man and
The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Bedford Light Infantry
From the BBC television series
Red Cap (2001-04)
The Black Boneens
An Irish regiment mentioned in "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" by Rudyard Kipling.
The Black Tyrones
An Irish regiment serving in India mentioned in "The Ballad of Boh da Thone" by Rudyard Kipling.
Blankshire Highlanders
A sample Scottish regiment used in
Court of the Lord Lyon Information Leaflet No. 4: PETITIONS FOR ARMS [1].
Bombardier Guards
In both
The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray, and
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
Caledonian Highlanders
From the 1935 Laurel and Hardy film
Bonnie Scotland
Cumberland Light Infantry
Mentioned in
The General by C. S. Forester
The Cumbrians (Duke of Rutland's Own)
From the television series
Soldier Soldier
The Derbyshire Regiment
From the BBC television series
Red Cap (2001-04)
The Dragons
From the 1958 film
Carry On Sergeant
Duke of Buckingham's Light Infantry ("The Sky Blues")
From
Gideon's Sword Bearers by John Mackenzie
Duke of Cambridge's Light Infantry
From
The East Wind of Love and
The South Wind of Love by Compton Mackenzie
Duke of Clarence's Own Clanranald Highlanders ("The Inverness-shire Greens")
From
The Monarch of the Glen and other novels by Compton Mackenzie
Duke of Edinburgh's Own Strathspey Highlanders ("Banffshire Buffs")
From
Rich Relatives by Compton Mackenzie
The Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry (The 'Dogs')
From the 1944 film
The Way Ahead
The Duke of Manchester's Own
From Downton Abbey Season 2 (1916), Matthew Crawley's First World War I regiment.
Flintshire Fusiliers name used in the writngs of Siegfried Sassoon in place of his actual experiences in the Royal Welch Fusiliers
The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Anspach’s Merther-Tydfilshire Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry ("The Fore-and-Aft")
From
Drums of the Fore and Aft by Rudyard Kipling.
Fusilier Guards
From
The Breaking of Bumbo (film version)
Glamorganshire Regiment
From
No More Parades and
A Man Could Stand Up — by Ford Madox Ford
Jackboot Guards
From
The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
King's Own Fusiliers
From the television series
Soldier Soldier (1991-1997)
Kintail Highlanders (Duke of Clarence's Own Inverness-shire Buffs)
In
Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie. The Kintails are also mentioned in
The Stolen Soprano but this seems to be a reference to the same regiment as the similarly-named Clanranalds (see above) in
Ben Nevis Goes East.
Lennox Highlanders
Richard Hannay's regiment in the works of John Buchan; also in André Maurois' book
The Silence of Colonel Bramble (Les silences du Colonel Bramble)
Loamshire Regiment
The "Loamshire Regiment" is a fictitious county regiment often used in Army documents as an example or placeholder. It, or the "Royal Loamshire Regiment", has been used in a number of works including the
Bulldog Drummond novels, the 1943 film
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
The Four Winds of Love by Compton Mackenzie and Evelyn Waugh's
Men at Arms
Loyal Highlanders (the Black Scots)
The "Loyal Highlanders" is a fictitious regiment commanded by Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron C.B. J.P. in
The Twelfth and After by J. K. Stanford. The regiment served in India, the Boer War and in France during the First World War.
Loyal South Riding Regiment (the Yorkshire Buffs)
Mentioned in
The South Wind of Love by Compton Mackenzie
Maclaren Highlanders
Scottish regiment in the
Regiment trilogy of books by C.L. Skelton.:
The Maclarens,
The Regiment, and
Beloved Soldiers
The Malvern Regiment
From the television series
Soldier Soldier (1991-1997)
Northdale Rifles
From
The Mark of Cain, a 2007 TV film
No. 1 Army Assault Commando (Airborne), the "Ackies," in Alan Judd's A Breed of Heroes and its BBC adaptation
Oxford Rifles
From the ITV Studios British television series
Lewis episode "The Dead of Winter"
The Prince Regent's Own South Down Fusiliers
From "The Hour of the Donkey" by Anthony Price, Territorial Regiment in which David Audley's father, Major Nigel Audley, is serving in 1940 in France.
The Punjab Guards
From
Jackboots on Whitehall, a 2010 TV film.
Queens Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry
Former regiment of Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot in the 1975 movie version of Kiplings's The Man Who Would Be King.
Queen's Own Scottish
Infantry regiment featured in the British television series
Redcap
Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders
From the television series
Fairly Secret Army
Redston Guards
From
The Breaking of Bumbo, novel by Andrew Sinclair
Royal Cambrian Fusiliers
From the BBC television series
Red Cap (2001-04)
Royal Corps of Halberdiers
From the
Sword of Honour trilogy
by Evelyn Waugh
Royal Cumbrian Regiment
From the 2002 film
The Four Feathers
The Royal Loyal Musketeers ("The Mavericks")
An Irish regiment mentioned in "Kim" and "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" by Rudyard Kipling
Royal North Surrey Regiment
In the 1939 film
The Four Feathers
Royal Ordnance Fusiliers
From the television series
Vera
Royal Rutland Fusiliers
In a sketch from the British television series
Rutland Weekend Television. A parody of post-WWII Japanese holdouts.
Royal Wessex Rangers
In the British television series
Spearhead
Royal Westmoreland Fusiliers
Hudson's regiment in
What's Become of Waring by Anthony Powell
South Essex Regiment/Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers
Richard Sharpe's regiment in the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
South Glamorgan Regiment
From "Tank Commander" by Ronald Welch; John Carey's regiment while serving as an infantryman.
Viscount of Coleraine Rifles
From the novels Trinity and Redemption by Leon Uris.
Weald Light Infantry
Now God be Thanked trilogy by John Masters.
Welsh Light Infantry
In the 1986 film
Milwr Bychan
Welsh Rifles
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett.
Wessex Guards
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
Wessex Fusiliers
Alms for Oblivion - a series of novels by Simon Raven
Wessex Regiment
From the BBC television series
Red Cap (2001-04)
West Yorkshire Fusiliers (The Wyffies)
Various of Reginald Hill's
Dalziel and Pascoe crime novels.
Internal Counter-Intelligence Service
From the Doctor Who
UNIT audio dramas by Big Finish.
U.N.I.T.
A fictional British or international military unit in the Doctor Who universe
Red Troop, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment
From the
Ultimate Force TV series (2002-2006)
A number of works of fiction feature regiments of the pre-Independence Indian Army.
1st Bangalore Pioneers
Colonel Sebastian Moran's old Indian Army regiment in the Sherlock Holmes story
The Adventure of the Empty House
11th Poona Rifles
Captain Blumburtt's regiment in
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. There was a historical regiment "The Poona Rifles", but the fictional regiment featured in the film bears little resemblance to this.
12th Gurkha Rifles
Colonel Arbuthnot's regiment in Agatha Christie's
Murder on the Orient Express
12th Indian Lancers
Major Duncan Bleek's regiment in the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film
Terror by Night.
34th Bombay Infantry
Major John Sholto's regiment in the Sherlock Holmes story
The Sign of Four
77th Bengal Lancers
From
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers, a 1956-57 American television show
Royal Vindhya Horse
Rodney Bateman's fathers regiment -and several others - in
The Himalaya Concerto by John Masters
Ravi Lancers
Indian Army cavalry unit whose service with the British Army in France during the First World War serves as the central subject of the novel
The Ravi Lancers by John Masters
19th/45th East African Rifles
Captain Blackadder's old colonial regiment before the war in
Blackadder Goes Forth
