The 85th Regiment of Foot (Westminster Volunteers) was a short-lived infantry Regiment in the British Army which was raised in 1777 to provide garrison troops for the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War.

[1] It was posted to Jamaica, where its numbers were ravaged by endemic diseases such as Yellow Fever.

Many of survivors then perished in a storm off Newfoundland on their way home aboard the captured ship Ville de Paris in 1782.

The remnants of the regiment were disbanded at Dover in 1783.

[2] The Colonels of the Regiment were: [3] Regimental titles in italics indicate they were disbanded or renumbered before 1881.