British Army order of precedence

[1] In the British Army's Order of Precedence, the Household Cavalry is always listed first and parades at the extreme right of the line.

The order comes from the start of the regiment's service under the Crown, up to 1881 and the "Cardwell Reforms", when the use of numbers was abolished in favour of linking with and using county names.

In the process, they were removed from the control of the lords-lieutenant of counties and administered directly by the War Office.

As Militia Tax and other funds were replaced for UK auxiliary units, they were added to the British Army order of precedence.

Although most auxiliary units had in 1881 (after the Cardwell and Childers Reforms) become companies or battalions of regular army corps or regiments, they were not grouped with their regular companies or battalions in the British Army order of precedence.

[citation needed] Not all colonial and Crown Dominion regular or reserve units had been considered part of the British Army and placed on the order of precedence (although those of the Channel Islands and the Imperial fortress colonies generally were), and Imperial reserve units did not follow the same process of re-organisation and consolidation as the UK ones.

Today, the Royal Bermuda Regiment, an amalgam of the BMA and BVRC, is ordered 28th.