Regimental Marches of the British Army

Regimental Marches of the British Army at the start of World War II

Units in 1940

Life Guards  :- - Milanollo

Royal Horse Guards  :- - Aida, Duchess of Kent

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

Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)  :- - none

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

4th/7th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards  :- - none

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)  :- - Garb of Gaul, Highland Laddie

3rd King's Own Hussars  :- - none

4th Queen's Own Hussars  :- - none

7th Queen's Own Hussars  :- - none

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars  :- - none

10th Royal Hussars  :- - Men of Harlech

11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)  :- - none

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

14th/20th Hussars  :- - none

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

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

12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)  :- - Couburg March

16th/9th Lancers  :- - St Patrick's Day

17th/21st Lancers  :- - White Lancers

Grenadier Guards  :- - British Grenadiers

Coldstream Guards  :- - Milanollo, Figaro

Scots Guards  :- - Highland Laddie

Irish Guards  :- - St Patrick's Day

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

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)  :- - Within a mile of Edinboro's Town

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

Rifle Brigade  :- - I'm Ninety Five

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

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)  :- - Campbell March, Highland Laddie

Queen's Own Cameron Highlsnders  :- - Pilbeoch o' Donald Dhu, March of the Cameron Men

Gordon Highlanders  :- - Cock o'the North

Seaforth highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Dk ofAlbany's)  :- - Highland Laddie

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment  :- - Blue Bonnets over the Border, Highland Laddie

Royal Scots (Royal Regiment)  :- - Dumbarton's Drums

King's Own Scottish Borderers  :- - Blue Bonnets over the Border

South Wales Borderers  :- - Men of Harlech

Welch Regiment  :- - Ap Shenkin

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

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

Royal Irish Fusiliers  :- - British Grenadiers, combination (see++1)

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers  :- - British Grenadiers

Royal Scots Fusiliers  :- - British Grenadiers

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

Duke of Cornwell's Light Infantry  :- - One and All

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

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regt)  :- - Whistle o'er the lave o't, Blue Bonnets over the Border

King's Shropshire Light Infantry  :- - Old Towler

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

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

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

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 Regt (Lancaster)  :- - Corn Riggs are bonny

Royal Warwickshire Regt  :- - Warwickshire Lads

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

Royal Norfolk Regiment  :- - Rule Britannia

Lincolnshire Regt  :- - Lincolnshire Poacher

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

Suffolk Regt  :- - Speed the Plough

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

East Yorkshire Regt  :- - Yorkshire Lass

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regt  :- - Mountain Rose, Mandolinata

Leicestershire Regt  :- - Romaika, A Hunting Call

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

Cheshire Regt  :- - Wha wadna etch for Charlie?

Gloucestershire Regiment  :- - Kynegad Slashers, Highland Piper

Worcestershire Regt  :- - Royal Windsor

East Lancshire Regt  :- - Lancashire Lads, The Attack

East Surrey Regiment  :- - A Southerly Wind & a Cloudy Sky

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

Border Regiment  :- - John Peel

Royal Sussex Regt  :- - The Royal Sussex

Hampshire Regt  :- - The Hampshires, Highland Piper

\South Staffordshire Regt  :- - Come Lassies & Lads

Dorsetshire Regt  :- - The Dorsetshires

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

Essex Regt  :- - The Essex, Highland Piper

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

Northamptonshire Regt  :- - The Northamptonshires

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

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

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

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

Manchester Regiment  :- - The Manchesters

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

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

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

King's Own Royal Regt (Lancaster)  :- - Corn Riggs are bonny

Royal Warwickshire Regt  :- - Warwickshire Lads

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

Royal Norfolk Regiment  :- - Rule Britannia

Lincolnshire Regt  :- - Lincolnshire Poacher

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

Suffolk Regt  :- - Speed the Plough

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

East Yorkshire Regt  :- - Yorkshire Lass

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regt  :- - Mountain Rose, Mandolinata

Leicestershire Regt  :- - Romaika, A Hunting Call

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

Cheshire Regt  :- - Wha wadna etch for Charlie?

Gloucestershire Regiment  :- - Kynegad Slashers, Highland Piper

Worcestershire Regt  :- - Royal Windsor

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

Border Regiment  :- - John Peel

Royal Sussex Regiment  :- - The Royal Sussex

Hampshire Regiment  :- - The Hampshires, Highland Piper

\South Staffordshire Regt  :- - Come Lassies & Lads

Dorsetshire Regt  :- - The Dorsetshires

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

Essex Regt  :- - The Essex, Highland Piper

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

Northamptonshire Regt  :- - The Northamptonshires

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

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

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

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

Manchester Regiment  :- - The Manchesters

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

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

Royal Engineers  :- - British Grenadiers, Wings

Royal Corps of Signals  :- - Begone Dull Care

Royal Tank Regiment  :- - My Boy Willie

Royal Army Service Corps  :- - Wait for the Wagon

Royal Army Medical Corps  :- - Bonny Nell

Army Dental Corps  :- - none

Royal Army Ordnance Corps  :- - Village Blacksmith

Royal Army Pay Corps  :- - Primrose & Blue

Royal Army Veterinary Corps  :- - Village Blacksmith

Units in 2008

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - Radetsky & Rusty Buckles;

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards - St Patrick's Day

6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles - Young May Moon;

9th/12th royal Lancers - God Bless the Prince of Wales;

13th/18th Royal hussars (Queen Mary's Own) - A Life on the Ocean Wave and Balaklava March;

l4th/20th King's Hussars - Royal Sussex;

15th/19th king's Royal Hussars - The Bold King's Hussars;

16th/5th Queen's royal Lancers - Stable Jacket;

15th Princess Mary's own Gurkha Rifles - Hundred Pipers

17th/21st Lancers - The White Lancers;

22nd (Cheshire) regiment - Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie

Adjutant General's corps - Pride of Lions;

Allied Rapid Reaction Corps - Fortune Favours the Bold;

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - The Thin Red Line;

Army Air Corps - Recce Flight;

Army Benevolent Fund - Action Support; SSAFA - The SSAFA Concert March;

Army Catering corps - Sugar and Spice;

Army Legal Corps - Scales of Justice;

Army Physical training CORPS - Be Fit;

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) - Highland Laddie;

Blues and Royals - Grand March from Aida & The Royals;

Brigade of Gurkhas - Yo Nepali;

British Korean veterans Association - The Hills of Korea;

Burma Star association - On The Road To Mandalay;

Central flying School - Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines;

Civil Admin (MOD) - Soldiers First;

St Dunstans - St Dunstans;

Coldstream Guards - Milanollo;

Corps of Royal electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Lillibulero;

Corps of Royal Engineers - Wings;

Corps of Royal Military Police - The Watch Tower;

Corps of Army Music/RMSM - Blow Away the Morning Dew

Devonshire and Dorset Regiment - Widdieomhe Fair, We've Lived and Loved Together and The Maid of Glenconnel;

Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - Farmer's Boy;

Duke of wellington's Regiment (West Riding) - The Wellesley;

Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles - Old Monmouthshire;

Dunkirk Veterans Assoication - Dunkirk Veterans March;

Fleet Air Arm - Flying Stations;

Gloucestershire Regiment - The Kinnegad Slashers;

Gordon Highlanders - Cock of the North; 2nd

Green Howards - Bonnie English Rose;

Grenadier Guards - British Grenadiers;

Gurkha Signals - Scotland the Brave; SPECIAL AIR SERVICE - Marche Des Parachutistes Belges;

Gurkha Transport Regiment - Wait for the Wagon;

Gurkha Engineers - Wings;

Gurkha Military Police - The Watch Tower;

Highlanders - The Queen's Own Highlanders & Cock of the North;

Intelligence corps - The Rose and the Laurel;

Irish Guards - St Patrick's Day;

King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles - Lutzow's Wild Hunt;

King's Own Scottish Borderers - Blue Bonnets Over the Border;

King's Division - Bond of Friendship;

King's Royal Hussars - The King's Royal Hussars;

King's Regiment - The Kingsman;

King's Own Border Regiment - John Peel & Corn Rigs are Bonnie;

Life Guards - Milanollo;

Light Division - The Light Division;

Light Infantry - Light Infantry;

Military Provost Staff Corps - The Metropolitan;

Normandy Veterans - Normandy Veterans;

Parachute Regiment - Ride of the Valkyries; 7th

Prince of Wales's division - God Bless the Prince of Wales;

Prince of Wales's OWN regiment of yorkshire - Ca Ira & The Yorkshire Lass;

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - The Farmer's Boy/The Soldiers of the Queen;

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army nursing Corps - Gray and Scarlet;

Queen Alexandra's Royal naval Nursing Service - QARNNS March;

Queen's Royal Irish Hussars - St Patrick's Day, Berkeley's Dragoons and The Galloping 8th Hussars;

Queen's Regiment - Soldier's of the Queen;

Queen's division - The Queensman;

Queen's Royal Hussars - The Queen's Royal Hussars;

Queen's Own Hussars - Light Cavalry;

Queen's Royal lancers - Scarlet and Green;

Queen's Own Highlanders - Scotland for Ever & Cameron Men;

Queen's Lancashire Regiment - The Attack & The Red Rose;

Reconnaissance Corps - Away To The Mountain's Brow;

Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force March Past

Royal Air Force Association - RAF Association March;

Royal Air Force Nursing Service - Skywards;

Royal Air Force Police - Royal Air Force Police March Past

Royal Air Force Regiment - Holyrood

Royal Anglian Regiment - Rule Britannia & Speed the Plough;

Royal Army Chaplain's Department - Trumpet Voluntary;

Royal Army Education Corps - Gaudeamus Igitur & The Good Comrade;

Royal Army Medical Corps - Here's a Health Unto His Majesty;

Royal Army Ordnance Corps - The Village Blacksmith

Royal Army Pay Corps - Imperial Echoes;

Royal Army vetinary Corps - Drink Puppy Drink & A Hunting We Will Go;

Royal British Legion - The British Legion;

Royal Corps of Signals - Swift and Sure; Begone Dull Care; The Signaller.

Royal Corps of Transport - Wait for the Wagon;

Royal Army Dental Corps - Green Facings;

Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - The Sphinx and Dragon;

Royal GreenJackets - Huntsman's Chorus & The Italian Song;

Royal Hampshire Regiment - The Hampshire;

Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayreshire Regiment) - Whistle o'er the Lave O't and British Grenadiers:

Royal Hospital Chelsea - Boys of the Old Brigade

Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) - The Merry Month of May;

Royal Irish Rangers - Killaloe;

Royal Logistic Corps - On Parade;

Royal Marines - A Life on the Ocean Wave;

Royal Marine Commandos - Sarie Marais;

Royal Navy - Heart of Oak;

Royal Naval Association - Under the White Ensign

Royal Observer Corps - Skywatch;

Royal Pioneer Corps - Pioneer Corps;

Royal Regiment of Artillery - British Grenadiers & Voice of the Guns;

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - New Fusilier; The British Grenadiers

Royal Regiment of Wales - Men of Harlech;

Royal Scots - Dumbarton's Drums;

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - 3DG's;

5th Royal Inniskilling Guards - Fare ye Well Inniskilling;

Royal Star and Garter Home - The Royal Star and Garter;

Royal Tank regiment - My Boy Willie;

Royal Welch Fusiliers - The British Grenadiers;

Scots Guards - Heilan' Laddie;

Small Arms School Corps - March of the Bowmen;

Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) - Come Lasses and Lads and The Days We went A-Gipsying;

Strike Command - Strike Command March Past;

Sub mariners - Up Periscope;

Ulster Defence Regiment - Sprig of Shillelagh & Garryowen;

Welsh Guards - Rising of the Lark;

Women's Royal Army Corps - Lass of Richmond Hill & Early One Morning;

Womens Royal Naval Service - Passing By;

Womens Royal Voluntary Service - The WRVS March.

Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment - Young May Moon & The Royal Windsor;

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