Regimental marches of the British Army explained

The following is a list of the notable Regimental Marches for military regiments of the British Army. In addition, all regiments have additional pieces for slow marches, marches for mounted parades and pipe marches.

Units in 1940

Regular Army

Life Guards :- - Milanollo

Royal Horse Guards :- - Aida, Duchess of Kent

1st King's Dragoon Guards :- - The Radetsky March

Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) :- - Rusty Buckles

3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) :- - Carabinier's March

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards :- - St Patrick's Day (former 4th Dragoon Guards had been the Royal Irish)

5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards :- - Soldier's chorus (Faust), Sprig of Shillelagh

1st Royal Dragoons :- - 1st Dragoons, Soldier's chorus (Faust),

Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)

[1] - - Walk: The Garb of Old Gaul

- - Trot: The Keel Row

- - Canter: Bonnie Dundee

- - Dismounted: Highland Laddie

3rd The King's Own Hussars :- - (Quick) Robert the Devil

- - (slow) The 3rd Hussars4th Queen's Own Hussars :- - Quick: Berkeley's Dragoons

- - Slow: Litany of Loretto7th Queen's Own Hussars :- - The Bannocks Of Barley Meal

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars :- - The Galloping 8th Hussar

9th Queen's Royal Lancers :- - Men of Harlech

10th Royal Hussars :- - The Merry Month Of May

11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) :- - Moses in Egypt12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) :- - Coburg March

13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) :- - none

14th/20th Hussars :- - none

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars :- - Elliot's Light Horse

16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers :- - St Patrick's Day (former 5th Lancers had been Royal Irish)

17th/21st Lancers :- - White Lancers

Royal Tank Regiment :- - My Boy Willie

Royal Artillery :- - British Grenadiers, Keel Row, Bonnie Dundee

Royal Engineers :- - British Grenadiers, Wings

Royal Corps of Signals :- - Begone Dull Care

Grenadier Guards :- - Slow: Scipio Quick: British Grenadiers

Coldstream Guards :- - Slow: Figaro Quick: Milanollo

Scots Guards

[2] - - Quick: Highland Laddie

- - Slow: Garb of Old Gaul

Irish Guards :- - Slow:Let Erin Remember Quick: St Patrick's Day

Welsh Guards :- - Slow: Men of Harlech, Quick: Rising of the Lark

Royal Scots (Royal Regiment)

[3] - - Quick: Dumbarton's Drums

- - Slow: Garb of Old Gaul

- - When Royalty present: The Daughter of the Regiment (commemorating the birth of Queen Victoria, daughter of the regimental colonel, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn)

Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) :- - We'll gang nae mair to yon toun, Braganza

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) :- - The Buffs

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) :- - Corn Riggs are Bonny, Shall Trelawny Die?

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers

Royal Warwickshire Regiment :- - Warwickshire Lads

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) :- - British Grenadiers, 7th Royal Fusiliers

King's Regiment (Liverpool) :- - Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen

Royal Norfolk Regiment :- - Rule Britannia

Devonshire Regiment :- - We've Lived & Loved Together, Widdicombe Fair

Suffolk Regiment :- - Speed the Plough

Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) :- - Prince Albert's March

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) :- - Ça Ira

East Yorkshire Regiment :- - Yorkshire Lass

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment :- - Mountain Rose, Mandolinata

Leicestershire Regiment :- - Romaika, A Hunting Call

Green Howards (Alexandra PoW's Own Yorkshire) :- - Bonnie English Rose

Lancashire Fusiliers :- - The Minden March

Royal Scots Fusiliers

[4] - - Band: British Grenadiers

- - Pipes: Highland Laddie

Cheshire Regiment :- - Wha wadna fetch for Charlie?

Royal Welch Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers, Men of Harlech

South Wales Borderers :- - Men of Harlech

King's Own Scottish Borderers

[5] - - Blue Bonnets O'er the Border

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

[6] - - Band: Within a mile of Edinboro's Town

- - Pipes: 1st Bn: Kenmuir's On An' Awa'

- - 2nd Bn: The Gathering of the Grahams

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers, Sprig of Shilelagh

Gloucestershire Regiment :- - Kynegad Slashers, Highland Piper

Worcestershire Regiment :- - Royal Windsor

East Lancashire Regiment :- - Lancashire Lads, The Attack

East Surrey Regiment :- - Quick: A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky

- - Slow: Lord Charles Montague's The Huntingdonshire MarchDuke of Cornwall's Light Infantry :- - One and All/Trelawny

Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) :- - The Wellesley

Border Regiment :- - John Peel

Royal Sussex Regiment :- - The Royal Sussex

Hampshire Regiment :- - The Hampshires, Highland Piper

South Staffordshire Regiment :- - Come Lassies & Lads

Dorsetshire Regiment :- - The Dorsetshires

Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) :- - South Lancashires, God Bless the Prince of Wales

Welch Regiment :- - Ap Shenkin

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment):[7] - - Blue Bonnets over the Border, Highland Laddie

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry :- - Nachtlager in Grenada, Lower Castle Yard

Essex Regiment :- - The Essex, Highland Piper

Sherwood Foresters :- - Young May Moon

Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) :- - The Red Rose

Northamptonshire Regiment :- - The Northamptonshires

Royal Berkshire (Princess Charlotte of Wales) :- - Dashing White Sergeant

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment :- - A Hundred Pipers

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry :- - Jockey of York, Jockey to the Fair

King's Shropshire Light Infantry :- - Old Towler

Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) :- - Lass o' Gowrie, Sir Manley Power

King's Royal Rifle Corps :- - Huntesman's Chorus, Lutzow's Wild Hunt

Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's :- - The Wiltshires, The Fly be on the turmits

Manchester Regiment :- - The Manchesters

North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) :- - The Days We went Gypsying

York and Lancaster Regiment :- - ?

Durham Light Infantry :- - Light Barque, Old 69th, Keel Row

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regt):[8] - - Whistle o'er the lave o't,

- - Column: Blue Bonnets over the Border

- - Close column: Highland Laddie

- - Marching into barracks: Scotland the Brave

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany's) :- - Highland Laddie

- - Band: Blue Bonnets O'er the Border[9]

- - Pipes: Pibroch O' Donail Dhu[10]

Gordon Highlanders

[11] - - Cock o' the North

- - Until 1932: Highland Laddie

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders :- - Pibroch o' Donald Dhu, March of the Cameron Men

Royal Ulster Rifles :- - Off, off, said the Stranger

Royal Irish Fusiliers :- - British Grenadiers

- - combination of Barrosa, Garry Owen, Norah Creing, St Patrick's Day

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's):[12] - - 1st Bn The Campbells are Coming

- - 2nd Bn: Highland Laddie

Rifle Brigade :- - I'm Ninety Five

Royal Army Service Corps :- - Wait for the Wagon

Royal Army Medical Corps :- - Bonny Nell

Royal Army Ordnance Corps :- - Village Blacksmith

Royal Army Pay Corps :- - Imperial Echoes

Royal Army Veterinary Corps :- - Village Blacksmith

Army Dental Corps :- - none

Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers - Lili Burlero

Territorial Army

Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry

[13] - - Garb of Old Gaul

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

[14] - - Wee Cooper o' Fife

Lovat Scouts

[15] - - The Lovat Scouts

Scottish Horse

[16] - - The Scottish Horse

7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment

[17] - - My Lady Greensleeves

London Scottish

[18] - - Highland Laddie

Liverpool Scottish

[19] - - Glendauruel Highlanders

1st Surrey Rifles[20] - - Lutzow's Wild Hunt

Tyneside Scottish

[21] - - Highland Laddie

Units in 2008

References

Notes and References

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