Regiments

The following British regiments were present at the Battle of Waterloo.

The current regiment within the British Army is indicated in bold.

  • 1st Life Guards now the Life Guards
  • 2nd Life Guards now the Life Guards
  • Royal Horse Guards now the Blues and Royals
  • King's Dragoon Guards now the Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • Royal Dragoons now the Blues and Royals
  • Royal Scots Greys now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
  • 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, later the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, and now the Royal Dragoon Guards
  • 7th Hussars, later the Queen's Own Hussars, and now the Queen's Royal Hussars
  • 10th Hussars, later the Royal Hussars, and now the King's Royal Hussars
  • 11th Hussars, later the Royal Hussars, and now the King's Royal Hussars
  • 12th Light Dragoons now the 9th/12th Lancers
  • 13th Light Dragoons, later the 13th/18th King's Royal Hussars, and now the 15th Light Dragoons later the 15th/19th Hussars and now the Light Dragoons
  • 16th Light Dragoons, later the 16th/5th Lancers, and now the Queen's Royal Lancers
  • 18th Light Dragoons, later the 13th/18th King's Royal Hussars, and now the Light Dragoons
  • Royal Artillery
  • Royal Engineers
  • 1st Foot Guards now the Grenadier Guards
  • 2nd Coldstream Guards
  • 3rd Foot Guards now the Scots Guards
  • 1st Foot now the Royal Scots
  • 4th King's Own Regiment of Foot now the King's Own Royal Border Regiment
  • 14th Foot later the West Yorkshire Regiment and now the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
  • 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • 27th Foot, the Inniskilling Fusiliers and now the Royal Irish Regiment
  • 28th Foot, later the Gloucestershire Regiment, and now the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
  • 30th Foot, later the East Lancashire Regiment, and now the Queen's Lancashire Regiment
  • 32nd Foot, later the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and now the Light Infantry
  • 33rd Foot the Duke of Wellington's Regiment
  • 40th Foot, later the South Lancashire Regiment, and now the Queen's Lancashire Regiment
  • 42nd Highlanders now the Black Watch (the Royal Highland Regiment)
  • 44th Foot, later the Essex Regiment, and now the Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 51st Light Infantry later the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and now the Light Infantry
  • 52nd Light Infantry, later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and now the Royal Green Jackets
  • 69th Foot, later the Welsh Regiment, and now the Royal Regiment of Wales
  • 71st Highland Light Infantry now the Royal Highland Fusiliers
  • 73rd Highlanders the Black Watch
  • 79th Highlanders, later the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, then the Queen's Own Highlanders and now the Highlanders
  • 92nd Highlanders the Gordon Highlanders and now the Highlanders
  • 95th Rifles, later the Rifle Brigade, and now the Royal Green Jackets