List of Fictional British Regiments
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The following is a list of British and Empire regiments that have appeared in various works of fiction.
- British Regiments
- 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment (Carry On up the Khyber)
- 6th Light Dragoons (A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson)
- 27th Lancers (The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 film) (later a real regiment)
- Bombardier Guards (Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh)
- Caledonian Highlanders (Bonnie Scotland {Laurel and Hardy})
- Department C-19 (Doctor Who)
- The Dragons (Heathercrest National Service Depot) Regiment (Carry On Sergeant)
- Duke of Buckingham's Light Infantry (Gideon's Sword Bearers by John Mackenzie)
- Duke of Clarence's Own Clanranald Highlanders (The Invernessshire Greens) (The Monarch of the Glen by Compton Mackenzie)
- Intrusion Countermeasures Intelligence Service Big Finish UNIT audio dramas
- King's Fusiliers (Soldier Soldier)
- Light Armoured Brigade (Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde)
- Lennox Highlanders (Richard Hannay's regiment in the works of John Buchan)
- Loamshire Regiment (Bulldog Drummond by "Sapper")
- 1st Battalion the Loamshire Regiment (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
- 5th Battalion the Loamshire Regiment (Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh)
- Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
- Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders (Fairly Secret Army)
- Red Troop, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (Ultimate Force)
- Royal Corps of Halberdiers (The Sword Of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh)
- Royal Cumbrian Regiment (The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason)
- Royal Loamshire Regiment
- 117th Foot aka Royal Mallows (The Adventure of the Crooked Man by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A real regiment that only existed from 1761 to 1796 sans nickname}.
- Royal North Surrey Regiment {The Four Feathers 1939 Movie}
- Royal Wessex Rangers (Spearhead)
- South Essex Regiment/Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers (Sharpe)
- Weald Light Infantry (Now God be Thanked trilogy by John Masters).
- Wessex Guards (Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford)
- Wessex Light Tank Armoured Brigade (The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde)
- 3rd Regular Army Deserters, 3rd Disgusting Fusiliers, and 3rd Mounted NAAFI are all amongst regiments that Major Bloodnok of The Goon Show variously claimed to belong to.
- British Empire Regiments
- 1st Bangalore Pioneers (Colonel Sebastian Moran's old regiment in The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 12th Indian Lancers-from Sherlock Holmes movie "Terror by Night".
- 19th/45th East African Rifles (Blackadder Goes Forth)
- 34th Bombay Infantry (The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
See also: List of fictional military organizations
