Order of Precedence 1918
 

Hi All,

I am designing the order in which I display my collection which is of OR cap badges of regular units at 11 Nov 1918. I have 16 or so left to collect which will cost about £350-400.

Can anyone tell me a useful source for Orders of Precedence? The only one I can find is at the old regiments.org site which can be viewed with the internet archive at http://web.archive.org/web/200701061...sts/ba1918.htm

I wondered whether Army Lists might help but I couldn't find anything other than alphabetic lists in the table of contents in the ones I saw.

I'm fine with the cavalry, infantry, RA and RE: my only difficulties are with the Services, Departments and Corps and War Raised Units and whether certain overseas forces (eg BWI Regt, W India Regt, Newfoundland Regt, West African Regt &c) are technically part of the British Army establishment.

The regiments.org list does have a few errors in it (eg the Corps of Military Accountants wasn't formed until the next year) so some corroboration would be nice.

Thanks!

Tom

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You might try this book although it dates from 1916. 'Regimental Traditions and Nicknames of the British Army' (5th edition)

Regimental Traditions and Nicknames of the British Army

Kings Regulations and Orders for the Army may assist you. They have the order of precedence of Corps and Regiments.

1908 was on line.

Here you go - for 1914 !
Go to a decent library and look through the Army List for 1918


British Army 1914, in precedence · Infantry OR Cap Badges
RACD sealing pattern number on left, title in centre, details etc on right

Foot Guards
1170A/1897 The Grenadier Guards loops
1174A/1897 The Coldstream Guards loops
1172A/1897 The Scots Guards loops
5032/1900 The Irish Guards loops
8387/1915 The Welsh Guards loops

Infantry of the line
2017/1889 The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) loops
4681/1898 The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
4425/1896 The Buffs (East Kent) Regiment
4500/1897 The King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
4276C/1896 The Northumberland Fusiliers
4433/1896 The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
10334A/1902 The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
4362A/1896 The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
4554/1897 The Norfolk Regiment
4476/1897 The Lincolnshire Regiment
4612A/1903 The Devonshire Regiment
4565A/1901 The Suffolk Regiment
4623/1898 The Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
4258B/1896 The Prince of Wales’ Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
4620/1898 The East Yorkshire Regiment
4521/1897 The Bedfordshire Regiment
4522/1897 The Leicestershire Regiment
7442/1911 The Royal Irish Regiment
Essentially the same as 4397/1896 (QVC) and 4397A/1902 (KC) but specifically sealed with a copper strengthening loop behind the crown – this one just under the top of the slider.
4694A/1903 Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
Modified 20 Nov 1905, WO359/14, 60 – slider moved to centre of badge.
4547/1897 The Lancashire Fusiliers
9994B/1901 The Royal Scots Fusiliers loops
4564/1897 The Cheshire Regiment
4643/1898 The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
4452/1896 The South Wales Borderers
2076A/1903 The Kings Own Scottish Borderers loops
10158D/1906 The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) loops
4684/1898 The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
4423/1896 The Gloucestershire Regiment
4424/1896 Gloucestershire Regt, back badge
4516/1897 The Worcestershire Regiment
4557A/1901 The East Lancashire Regiment
Essentially the same as 4557/1897 (QVC) and 4557A/1901 (KC) but slider moved to behind sphinx – ACD 2nd Nov 1905 ( TNA 359/14, 55)
4607A/1902 The East Surrey Regiment
4655/1898 The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
4257/1897 The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
4495B/1905 The Border Regiment
4691/1898 The Royal Sussex Regiment
4622A/1898 The Hampshire Regiment
4527/1901 The South Staffordshire Regiment
4632A/1901 The Dorsetshire Regiment
4581/1897 The Prince of Wales’ Vols (South Lancashire Regiment)
4636/1898 The Welsh Regiment
10710A/1904 The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) loops
4724/1898 The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
4514/1901 The Essex Regiment
6009/1903 The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
0838/1908 The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Essentially the same design as 4515A/1897 (QVC) and 4515B/1902 (KC) but specifically sealed with a strengthened (bent over) slider.
4639A/1901 The Northamptonshire Regiment
4434/1896 The Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
4460/1898 The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
1890A/1899 The King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) loops
4638/1898 The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)
4451/1896 The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
884E/1905 The King's Royal Rifle Corps
4432/1896 The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment)
4586/1898 The Manchester Regiment
4493/1897 The Prince of Wales’ (North Staffordshire Regiment)
4563/1897 The York and Lancaster Regiment
4621A/1903 The Durham Light Infantry
10235A/1902 The Highland Light Infantry loops
10190/1882 The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s) 3lps
10138/1882 The Gordon Highlanders loops
4519/1897 The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders loops
7730/1913 The Royal Irish Rifles
8005/1914 The Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
4368B/1906 The Connaught Rangers
Essentially the same as 4368/1896 (QVC) and 4368A/1901 (KC) but specifically sealed with a vertical shank and – almost certainly – a copper strengthening loop behind the crown.
7958/1913 The Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) loops
4492/1897 The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) loops
4642/1898 The Royal Munster Fusiliers
4579/1897 The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
4091D/1905 The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) loops

Thanks - it's got a lot in there but not all the services and not in precedence order.

That sounds highly promising. I'll have a search for it but if you do know of a link I'd be glad to have it!

Thanks,

Tom

Ah! I have found a link and also a later 1912 (updated to 1914) set of KRs.

1908: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...iew=1up&seq=11

1912/14: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...ew=1up&seq=413

Pics: 1908 (bold), 1912/14 (faint)