List of fictional regiments of the British Army

The following is a list of British and Empire regiments that have appeared in various works of fiction. It also includes some which have been used as placeholders in more official works.

The list encompasses both regiments of the British Army and those of the pre-independence British Indian Army.

British Army

Cavalry regiments

Cavalry/armoured regiment featured in the British television series Redcap, episode The Orderly Officer, broadcast 1964.
From the Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler novels by Anthony Price as Audley's World War II tank regiment; also featured in Keith Laumer's "For the Honor of the Regiment" as a part of the lineage of a Mark XXX Bolo of the 3rd Battalion, Dinochrome Brigade.[1]
In A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson
Herbert Curzon's regiment in The General by C.S. Forester
In The Charge of the Light Brigade, a 1936 film - later a real regiment
From Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley
From the comic opera Cox and Box (1866)
In Red Cap, episode True Love.
From various novels by William Makepeace Thackeray
From the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
From Downton Abbey, Lord Grantham's Yeomanry regiment.
From The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
From "The Rout of the White Hussars" by Rudyard Kipling

Infantry regiments

A regiment created by King Auberon in "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" by "G.K. Chesterton".
Various regiments with which Major Bloodnok (played by Peter Sellers of The Goon Show) claimed to have served.
A Highland Regiment portrayed in the 1968 film Carry On up the Khyber
From the 1967 comedy film "How I Won the War"
Mentioned in The General by C.S. Forester.
Harry East's regiment in Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
From the James Ogilvie books by Philip McCutchan aka Duncan MacNeil
An Irish regiment mentioned in The Adventure of the Crooked Man and The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
From the BBC television series Red Cap (2001-04)
An Irish regiment mentioned in "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" by Rudyard Kipling.
An Irish regiment serving in India mentioned in "The Ballad of Boh da Thone" by Rudyard Kipling.
A sample Scottish regiment used in Court of the Lord Lyon Information Leaflet No. 4: PETITIONS FOR ARMS .
In both The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray, and Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
From the 1935 Laurel and Hardy film Bonnie Scotland
Mentioned in The General by C. S. Forester
From the television series Soldier Soldier
From the BBC television series Red Cap (2001-04)
From the 1958 film Carry On Sergeant
From Gideon's Sword Bearers by John Mackenzie
From The East Wind of Love and The South Wind of Love by Compton Mackenzie
From The Monarch of the Glen and other novels by Compton Mackenzie
From Rich Relatives by Compton Mackenzie
From the 1944 film The Way Ahead
From Downton Abbey Season 2 (1916), Matthew Crawley's First World War I regiment.
From Drums of the Fore and Aft by Rudyard Kipling.
From The Breaking of Bumbo (film version)
From No More Parades and A Man Could Stand Up — by Ford Madox Ford
From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
From the television series Soldier Soldier (1991-1997)
In Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie. The Kintails are also mentioned in The Stolen Soprano but this seems to be a reference to the same regiment as the similarly-named Clanranalds (see above) in Ben Nevis Goes East.
Richard Hannay's regiment in the works of John Buchan; also in André Maurois' book The Silence of Colonel Bramble (Les silences du Colonel Bramble)
The "Loamshire Regiment" is a fictitious county regiment often used in Army documents as an example or placeholder. It, or the "Royal Loamshire Regiment", has been used in a number of works including the Bulldog Drummond novels, the 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Four Winds of Love by Compton Mackenzie and Evelyn Waugh's Men at Arms
The "Loyal Highlanders" is a fictitious regiment commanded by Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron C.B. J.P. in The Twelfth and After by J. K. Stanford. The regiment served in India, the Boer War and in France during the First World War.
Mentioned in The South Wind of Love by Compton Mackenzie
Scottish regiment in the Regiment trilogy of books by C.L. Skelton.: The Maclarens, The Regiment, and Beloved Soldiers
From the television series Soldier Soldier (1991-1997)
From The Mark of Cain, a 2007 TV film
From the ITV Studios British television series Lewis episode "The Dead of Winter"
From "The Hour of the Donkey" by Anthony Price, Territorial Regiment in which David Audley's father, Major Nigel Audley, is serving in 1940 in France.
From Jackboots on Whitehall, a 2010 TV film.
Former regiment of Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot in the 1975 movie version of Kiplings's The Man Who Would Be King.
Infantry regiment featured in the British television series Redcap
From the television series Fairly Secret Army
From The Breaking of Bumbo, novel by Andrew Sinclair
From the BBC television series Red Cap (2001-04)
From the Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
From the 2002 film The Four Feathers
An Irish regiment mentioned in "Kim" and "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" by Rudyard Kipling
In the 1939 film The Four Feathers
From the television series Vera
In a sketch from the British television series Rutland Weekend Television. A parody of post-WWII Japanese holdouts.
In the British television series Spearhead
Hudson's regiment in What's Become of Waring by Anthony Powell
Richard Sharpe's regiment in the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
From "Tank Commander" by Ronald Welch; John Carey's regiment while serving as an infantryman.
From the novels Trinity and Redemption by Leon Uris.
Now God be Thanked trilogy by John Masters.
In the 1986 film Milwr Bychan
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett.
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
Alms for Oblivion - a series of novels by Simon Raven
From the BBC television series Red Cap (2001-04)
Various of Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe crime novels.

Other units and formations

From the Doctor Who UNIT audio dramas by Big Finish.
A fictional British or international military unit in the Doctor Who universe
From the Ultimate Force TV series (2002-2006)

Regiments of the Indian Army

A number of works of fiction feature regiments of the pre-Independence Indian Army.

Colonel Sebastian Moran's old Indian Army regiment in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Empty House
Captain Blumburtt's regiment in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. There was a historical regiment "The Poona Rifles", but the fictional regiment featured in the film bares little resemblance to this.
Colonel Arbuthnot's regiment in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Major Duncan Bleek's regiment in the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film Terror by Night.
Major John Sholto's regiment in the Sherlock Holmes story The Sign of Four
From Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers, a 1956-57 American television show
Rodney Bateman's fathers regiment -and several others - in The Himalaya Concerto by John Masters
Indian Army cavalry unit whose service with the British Army in France during the First World War serves as the central subject of the novel The Ravi Lancers by John Masters

Other colonial regiments

Captain Blackadder's old colonial regiment before the war in Blackadder Goes Forth

References

  1. ↑ "Bolos: Honor of the Regiment". Bean eBooks. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Spike Milligan served in the 56th Heavy Regiment, RA: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/arts/spike-milligan-is-dead-at-83-ringleader-of-zany-comedians.html
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