List of British Army Regiments (2008)
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This is a list of British Regular Army regiments as constituted as a result of the British defence white paper Delivering Security in a Changing World in 2004 and "Delivering Security in a Changing World Future Capabilities" in 2005.
Cavalry
[edit]Household Cavalry
[edit]Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
[edit]Royal Armoured Corps
[edit]Heavy Cavalry
[edit]- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
- The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
- The Royal Dragoon Guards
Light Cavalry
[edit]- The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
- 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
- The King's Royal Hussars
- The Light Dragoons
- The Queen's Royal Lancers
The Royal Tank Regiment
[edit]Infantry
[edit]Note: When a regiment is described as having n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Territorial Army battalions.
Foot Guards
[edit]- Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- London Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion
Line Infantry
[edit]- Royal Regiment of Scotland - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
- The King's Own Scottish Borderers
- The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
- The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
- The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
- The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
- Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 1 battalions
- Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:[note 1]
- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 2 + 1 battalions
- Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- Mercian Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- Royal Welsh - 2 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
- Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions [note 2]
- Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions
- The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
Special Forces
[edit]The Army Air Corps
[edit]Support Arms and Services
[edit]Support Arms
[edit]Services
[edit]- Royal Army Chaplains Department
- Royal Logistic Corps
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
- Adjutant General's Corps
- Royal Army Veterinary Corps
- Small Arms School Corps
- Royal Army Dental Corps
- Army Physical Training Corps (Granted 'Royal' prefix in 2010)
- General Service Corps
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
- Corps of Army Music
External links
[edit]- UK MoD: Delivering Security in a Changing World (PDF)
- Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities
- House of Commons Hansard: Future Capabilities
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was initially formed with three regular battalions, before settling into its final complement of two
- ^ 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment forms the major element of the Special Forces Support Group, and is therefore not grouped with the rest of the infantry