List of fictional British regiments

The following is a list of British and Empire regiments that have appeared in various works of fiction.

British Regiments

Numbered United Kingdom Regiments

• 1st King’s Lancers cavalry/armoured regiment featured in Redcap (British television series by ABC Weekend Television) featured episode The Orderly Officer, broadcast 1964.
• 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment ("The Devils in Skirts") (A Highland Regiment mentioned in Carry On up the Khyber 1968 film.
• 3rd Regular Army Deserters, 3rd Disgusting Fusiliers, 3rd Armoured Thunderboxes, and 3rd Mounted NAAFI are examples of the regiments that Major Bloodnok (played by Peter Sellers of The Goon Show) claimed to have served with.
• 4th Musketeers {"How I Won the War" 1967 black comedy film}
• 6th Light Dragoons (A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson)
• 27th Lancers (The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 film) - later a real regiment
• 114th Queen's Own Royal Strathspeys [The James Ogilvie books] by Philip McCutchan aka Duncan MacNeil {Also repeated below}
• 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. A real regiment that only existed from 1761 to 1796, sans nickname}.

Named regiments

• The Bedford Light Infantry (Red Cap BBC-1 TV series 2001-2004)
• The Black Boneens A rival Irish regiment mentioned in "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" by Rudyard Kipling.
• The Black Tyrone An Irish regiment serving in India mentioned in "The Ballad of Boh da Thone" by Rudyard Kipling.
• Blankshire Highlanders The sample Scottish regiment used in Court of the Lord Lyon Information Leaflet No. 4: PETITIONS FOR ARMS [1].
• Bombardier Guards (The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray; Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh)
• Caledonian Highlanders (Bonnie Scotland 1935 film {Laurel and Hardy})
• The Cumbrians (Duke of Rutland's Own) (Soldier Soldier TV series 1991-1997)
• The Dampshire Yeomanry in the comic opera Cox and Box 1866
• The Derbyshire Regiment (Red Cap BBC-1 TV Series 2001-2004)
• The Dragons (Heathercrest National Service Depot) Regiment (Carry On Sergeant 1958 film {Carry On films})
• Duke of Buckingham's Light Infantry ("The Sky Blues") (Gideon's Sword Bearers by John Mackenzie (author))
• Duke of Clarence's Own Clanranald Highlanders ("The Inverness-shire Greens") (The Monarch of the Glen by Compton Mackenzie)
• The Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry (The 'Dogs') (The Way Ahead 1944 Film)
• The Fore and Fit Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen-Anspach’s Merther-Tydfilshire Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry, Regimental District 329A ("The Fore and Aft" Regiment) ("Drums of the Fore and Aft" by Rudyard Kipling)
• King's Own Fusiliers (Soldier Soldier TV series 1991-1997)
• Lennox Highlanders (Richard Hannay's regiment in the works of John Buchan)
• Jackboot Guards (The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray)
• Life Guards Greens (various novels by William Makepeace Thackeray) The nickname of the short-lived Horse-Grenadier Troops of the Life Guards.
• Light Armoured Brigade (Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde)
• Loamshire Regiment (Bulldog Drummond by "Sapper")
  • Royal Loamshire Regiment (A fictitious regiment used in British Army texts and manuals as an example.)
  • 1st Battalion, The Loamshire Regiment (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 film)
  • 5th Battalion, The Loamshire Regiment (Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh)
• Lord Sempill’s Highland Regiment (A unit that mutinied mentioned in Gideon's Swordbearers by John Mackenzie)
• The Malvern Regiment (Soldier Soldier TV series 1991-1997)
• Northdale Rifles (The Mark of Cain 2007 TV film)
• 114th Queen's Own Royal Strathspeys [The James Ogilvie books] by Philip McCutchan aka Duncan MacNeil {ALso repeated above}
• Queen's Own Scottish infantry regiment featured in Redcap (British television series by ABC Weekend Television) featured episode A Regiment of the Line, broadcast 1964.
• Queen's Own West Mercian Lowlanders (Fairly Secret Army TV comedy series)
• Royal Cambrian Fusiliers (Red Cap BBC-1 TV Series 2001-2004)
• Royal Corps of Halberdiers (The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh)
• Royal Cumbrian Regiment (The Four Feathers, 2002 film)
• 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 {The Four Feathers 1939 Film}
• Royal Wessex Rangers (Spearhead British TV series 1978-1981)
• South Essex Regiment/Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers (Richard Sharpe's regiment in the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell)
• The South Glamorgan regiment ("Tank Commander" by Ronald Welch) John Carey's regiment while serving as an infantryman.
• Weald Light Infantry (Now God be Thanked trilogy by John Masters).
• Wessex Guards (Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford)
• Wessex Fusiliers (Alms for Oblivion - a series of novels by Simon Raven)
• Wessex Light Tank Armoured Brigade (The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde)
• The Wessex Regiment (Red Cap BBC-1 TV Series 2001-2004)
• West Yorkshire Fusiliers (The Wyffies) Various of Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe crime novels.
• The White Hussars "The Rout of the White Hussars" by Rudyard Kipling

British Empire Regiments

• 1st Bangalore Pioneers (Colonel Sebastian Moran's old Indian Army regiment in The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 12th Gurkha Rifles (Colonel Arbuthnot's regiment in Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie)
• 12th Indian Lancers (Major Duncan Bleek's regiment in Terror by Night 1946 film {Sherlock Holmes}).
• 19th/45th East African Rifles (Captain Blackadder's old colonial regiment before the war in Blackadder Goes Forth)
• 34th Bombay Infantry (Major John Sholto's regiment in The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• 77th Bengal Lancers (Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers American TV show 1956-1957).

Special Operations Units

• Internal Counter-Intelligence Service UNIT audio dramas by Big Finish set in the (Doctor Who) universe.
• U.N.I.T. (Doctor Who)
• Red Troop, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (Ultimate Force TV series 2002-2006)