Regimental marches of the British Army






The 5 regiments of the Foot Guards have their own regimental marches, that are each performed by their respective regimental bands.


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




Contents





  • 1 Units in 1940

    • 1.1 Regular Army


    • 1.2 Territorial Army



  • 2 Units in 2008


  • 3 Notes


  • 4 References




Units in 1940


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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 Hussars

4th Queen's Own Hussars :- - Quick: Berkeley's Dragoons


- - Slow: Litany of Loretto

7th 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) :- - none


12th 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 :- - British Grenadiers


Coldstream Guards :- - Milanollo, Figaro


Scots Guards:[1]- - Quick: Highland Laddie


- - Slow: Garb of Old Gaul

Irish Guards :- - St Patrick's Day


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


Royal Scots (Royal Regiment):[1]- - 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


Lincolnshire Regiment :- - Lincolnshire Poacher


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 :- - ?


Royal Scots Fusiliers:[1]- - 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:[1]- - Blue Bonnets O'er the Border


Cameronians (Scottish Rifles):[1]- - 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 March

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


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):[1]- - 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 :- - ?


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):[1]- - 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 ofAlbany's) :- - Highland Laddie


- - Band: Blue Bonnets O'er the Border[1]

- - Pipes: Pibroch O' Donail Dhu[1]

Gordon Highlanders:[1]- - Cock o' the North


- - Until 1932: Highland Laddie

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders :- - Pilbeoch 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):[1]- - 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 :- - Primrose & Blue


Royal Army Veterinary Corps :- - Village Blacksmith


Army Dental Corps :- - none



Territorial Army


Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry:[1]- - Garb of Old Gaul


Fife and Forfar Yeomanry:[1]- - Wee Cooper o' Fife


Lovat Scouts:[1]- - The Lovat Scouts


Scottish Horse:[1]- - The Scottish Horse


7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment:[2]- - My Lady Greensleeves


London Scottish:[1]- - Highland Laddie


Liverpool Scottish:[1]- - Glendauruel Highlanders


1st Surrey Rifles[3]- - Lutzow's Wild Hunt


Tyneside Scottish:[1]- - Highland Laddie




Units in 2008




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

  • 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 - Lillibullero;

  • 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 - Widecombe Fair, We've Lived and Loved Together and The Maid of Glenconnel;


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


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


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


  • Dunkirk Veterans Association - Dunkirk Veterans March;

  • Fleet Air Arm - Flying Stations;

  • Gloucestershire Regiment - The Kinnegad Slashers;


  • Gordon Highlanders - Cock o' 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 o' 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' Association - Normandy Veterans;


  • Parachute Regiment - Ride of the Valkyries; 7th


  • Prince of Wales' Division - God Bless the Prince of Wales;

  • Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire - Ca Ira and 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 - Soldiers 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 Veterinary 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;

  • Women's Royal Naval Service - Passing By;

  • Women's Royal Voluntary Service - The WRVS March.

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



Notes




  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrs Barnes.


  2. ^ Planck, pp. 219–20.


  3. ^ Anon, War Record, p. 14.



References



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