British Army Order of Precedence 1861

The British in Afghanistan 1878 -1881:
Volume I
Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Organization
British Army Order of Precedence 1861
Indian Army (Bengal)
Indian Army (Madras)
Indian Army (Bombay)
Second Afghan War Medal Rolls
Source Abbreviations
Bibliography
Text Abbreviations
Rank and Service Abbreviations
Ranks Prefaced by Numerical Identification
The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: A-F
Volume II
The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: G-O
Volume III
The British in Afghanistan 1878-1881: P-Z
Annex 1: Extant memorials in Afghanistan
Annex 2: Mortality
Annex 3: Incomplete References

The following list contains the complete Order of Precedence. While not every regiment was involved in the war, individual officers from nearly every regiment were present in some capacity, attached temporarily to other regiments, or simply visiting the country at this time. A handily available complete list can be found in David Ascoli, A Companion to the British Army 1660-1983 (London: Harrap, 1983) pp. 80-83, or in the Annual Army List for the pertinent years. Some differences occur, and there are slight variations from both in the following list. The one given here is the primary Order followed in the present work. The Order of Precedence was changed in 1882, soon after the end of the Second Afghan War and some of the sources, published after the war, have referred to the new Order.

Royal Horse Artillery

See separate list for order of Brigades

• lst Life Guards
• 2nd Life Guards
• Royal Horse Guards

Brigades of the Royal Horse Artillery

• D/A R.H.A. D Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• E/A R.H.A. E Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• F/A R.H.A. F Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• G/A R.H.A. G Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• I/A R.H.A. I Battery A Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• A/B R.H.A. A Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• B/B R.H.A. B Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• C/B R.H.A. C Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• D/B R.H.A. D Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• E/B R.H.A. E Battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• A/C R.H.A. A Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• B/C R.H.A. B Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• E/C R.H.A. E Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• H/C R.H.A. H Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• I/C R.H.A. I Battery C Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
• F/H R.H.A. F Battery H Brigade Royal Horse Artillery

Cavalry

• 1st (The King's) Dragoon Guards
• 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
• 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
• 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
• 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
• 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
• 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
• 1st (Royal) Dragoons
• 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
• 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars
• 4th (The Queens's Own) Hussars
• 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
• 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
• 7th (The Queen's Own) Hussars
• 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars
• 9th (The Queen's Royal) Lancers
• 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
• llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
• 12th (The Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
• 13th Hussars
• 14th (The King's) Hussars
• 15th (The King's) Hussars
• 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
• 17th (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
• 18th Hussars
• 19th Hussars
• 20th Hussars
• 21st Hussars

Royal Regiment of Artillery

See separate list for order of brigades; here only those brigades included in the present work are listed.

Brigades of the Royal Artillery

• C/1 R.A. C Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
• H/1 R.A. H Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
• I/1 R.A. I Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
• M/1 R.A. M Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery
• C/2 R.A. C Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
• D/2 R.A. D Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
• E/2 R.A. E Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
• F/2 R.A. F Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
• N/2 R.A. N Battery 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery
• A/3 R.A. A Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• B/3 R.A. B Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• C/3 R.A. C Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• E/3 R.A. E Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• F/3 R.A. F Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• G/3 R.A. G Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• H/3 R.A. H Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery
• A/4 R.A. A Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• B/4 R.A. B Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• C/4 R.A. C Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• D/4 R.A. D Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• E/4 R.A. E Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• F/4 R.A. F Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• G/4 R.A. G Battery 4th Brigade Royal Artillery
• H/5 R.A. H Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
• K/5 R.A. K Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
• L/5 R.A. L Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
• O/5 R.A. O Battery 5th Brigade Royal Artillery
• N/6 R.A. N Battery 6th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 20/7 R.A. 20th Battery 7th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 1/8 R.A. 1st Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 5/8 R.A. 5th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 6/8 R.A. 6th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 10/8 R.A. 10th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 11/8 R.A. 11th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 13/8 R.A. 13th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 15/8 R.A. 15th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 16/8 R.A. 16th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 17/8 R.A. 17th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 18/8 R.A. 18th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 19/8 R.A. 19th Battery 8th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 3/9 R.A. 3rd Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 10/9 R.A. 10th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 11/9 R.A. 11th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 12/9 R.A. 12th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 13/9 R.A. 13th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 14/9 R.A. 14th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 15/9 R.A. 15th Battery 9th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 8/10 R.A. 8th Battery 10th Brigade Royal Artillery
• A/11 R.A. A Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 5/11 R.A. 5th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 6/11 R.A. 6th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 8/11 R.A. 8th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 9/11 R.A. 9th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 10/11 R.A. 10th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 11/11 R.A. 11th Battery 11th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 13/16 R.A. 13th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery
• 16/16 R.A. 16th Battery 16th Brigade Royal Artillery

Corps of Royal Engineers

• Bengal Sappers and Miners (late Bengal Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
• Madras Sappers and Miners (late Madras Sappers and Miners [Queen's Own])
• Bombay Sappers and Miners (late Bombay Sappers and Miners)

Regiments of Foot

• Grenadier Guards
• Coldstream Guards
• Scots Guards
• 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment
• 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment
• 3rd (East Kent - The Buffs) Regiment
• 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment
• 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment
• 6th (Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment
• 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment
• 8th (The King's) Regiment
• 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment
• 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment
• 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment
• 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment
• 13th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Albert's Light Infantry Regiment
• 14th (The Buckinghamshire) Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
• 15th (Yorkshire, East Riding) Regiment
• 16th (The Bedfordshire) Regiment
• 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment
• 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment
• 19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment (Princess of Wales's Own)
• 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment
• 21st (Royal Scots Fusiliers) Regiment
• 22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment
• 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment
• 24th (The 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment
• 25th (The King's Own Borderers) Regiment
• 26th (The Cameronian) Regiment
• 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment
• 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment
• 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment
• 30th (The Cambridgeshire) Regiment
• 31st (The Huntingdonshire) Regiment
• 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry Regiment
• 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
• 34th (The Cumberland) Regiment
• 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment
• 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment
• 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment
• 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment
• 39th (The Dorsetshire) Regiment
• 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment
• 41st (The Welsh) Regiment
• 42nd (The Royal Highland) Regiment (The Black Watch)
• 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment
• 44th (The East Essex) Regiment
• 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
• 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment
• 47th (Lancashire) Regiment
• 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment
• 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Herefordshire) Regiment
• 50th (The Queen's Own) Regiment
• 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) (The King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment
• 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Regiment
• 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment
• 54th (West Norfolk) Regiment
• 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment
• 56th (West Essex) Regiment
• 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment
• 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment
• 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment
• 60th The King's Royal Rifle Corps
• 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment
• 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment
• 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment
• 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment
• 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment
• 66th (Berkshire) Regiment
• 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment
• 68th (Durham) Light Infantry Regiment
• 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment
• 70th (Surrey) Regiment
• 71st (Highland) Light Infantry Regiment
• 72nd (Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders) Regiment
• 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment
• 74th (Highlanders) Regiment
• 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment
• 76th Regiment of Foot
• 77th (East Middlesex) The Duke of Cambridge's Own Regiment
• 78th (Highland) Regiment, The Ross-shire Buffs
• 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment
• 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment
• 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) Regiment
• 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment
• 83rd (County Dublin) Regiment
• 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment
• 85th (Bucks Volunteers) (The King's Light Infantry) Regiment
• 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment
• 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment
• 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment
• 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment
• 90th (Perthshire Volunteers - Light Infantry) Regiment
• 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment
• 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment
• 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment
• 94th Regiment of Foot
• 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment
• 96th Regiment of Foot
• 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment
• 98th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment
• 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment
• 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment
• 101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
• 102nd (Royal Madras Fusiliers) Regiment
• 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers) Regiment
• 104th (Bengal Fusiliers) Regiment
• 105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment
• 106th (Bombay Light Infantry) Regiment
• 107th (Bengal Infantry) Regiment
• 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment
• 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiment
• The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade

• 1st West India Regiment
• 2nd West India Regiment

The above departments and regiments are followed by (but not part of) the 1861 Order of Precedence:

• Commissariat and Transport Department
• Ordnance Store Department
• Army Pay Department
• Army Medical Department
• Veterinary Department
• Chaplains' Department
• Royal Marine Artillery
• Royal Marine Light Infantry

Note: When members of the above departments are attached, for the period of their service, to a regiment, as was frequently the case during the Second Afghan War, they appear with that regiment rather than under their respective departments.