List of British Army regiments and corps
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This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Army.[1]
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Household Cavalry
Line Cavalry
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards[4]
- The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)[4]
- The Royal Dragoon Guards[4]
- The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)[4]
- The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own)[4]
- The King's Royal Hussars[4]
- The Light Dragoons[4]
Royal Tank Regiment
Yeomanry
- The Royal Yeomanry[6]
- The Royal Wessex Yeomanry[7]
- The Queen's Own Yeomanry[8]
- The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry[9]
Infantry
When a regiment is given as n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Army Reserve battalions.
Foot Guards
- Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[10][11][12]
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[10][11][12]
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[10][11][12]
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[10][11][12]
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[12]
- London Guards - 0 + 1 battalion[12]
Line Infantry and Rifles
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 3 + 2 battalions[13][14]
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions[14]
- The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Mercian Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions[14]
- The Royal Irish Regiment - 1 + 1 battalion[14]
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions[15][14]
- The Rifles - 4 + 3 battalions[16]
Airborne Infantry
- The Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions[17][18]
Special Operations
- Ranger Regiment - 4 + 0 battalions[19]
Special Forces
- Special Air Service - 1 + 2 regiments[20]
- Special Reconnaissance Regiment - 1 regiment[21]
Combat Support and Army Air Corps
- Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments[22]
- Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments[25]
- Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments[26]
- Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions[27]
- Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment[28]
- Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 Regiment[29]
Combat Service Support
- Royal Logistic Corps - 13 + 11 regiments[30]
- Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 8 + 3 battalions[31]
- Adjutant General's Corps - 4 + 0 branches;[32]
- Staff and Personnel Support (SPS)[32]
- Educational and Training Services (ETS)[32]
- Army Legal Services (ALS)[32]
- Provost Branch[32]
- Royal Corps of Army Music - 14 + 20 bands[36]
- Royal Army Chaplains' Department - approx. 150[37]
- Small Arms School Corps[38]
- Royal Army Physical Training Corps[39]
- General Service Corps
Army Medical Services
- Royal Army Medical Corps - 9 + 15 units[40]
- Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 + 0 regiments[41]
- Royal Army Dental Corps[42]
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps[43]
Overseas Regiments
- Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion[44]
- Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion[45]
- Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon[46]
- Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company[46]
- Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company[47]
Notes
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ a b For operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
- ^ a b "Household Cavalry take summer camp beach ride". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Cavalry | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "BBC Four - Regimental Stories, The Royal Tank Regiment". BBC. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Army reservists granted freedom of Shrewsbury". BBC News. 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ Horton, Kim (2022-04-23). "Gloucestershire soldier makes history in Estonia". Gloucestershire Live. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Soldiers in Freedom of City march". 2010-05-15. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "New army regiment forms in Scotland". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ incremental companies stationed in London on public dutiesthat maintains the history and traditions of each regiment's 2nd Battalion, which are all in suspended animation
- ^ London Regimentuntil May 2022, when they were red signated the London Guards, without being a regiment in their own right
- ^ a b c d e f "The Guards Today - The Guards Museum". theguardsmuseum.com. 2019-09-12. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ The Royal Regiment of Scotland also has an incremental company assigned to public duties in Edinburgh
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Allwood, Greg (2022-05-13). "Know Your Infantry – why are some British Army regiments more senior than others?". Forces Network. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ The Royal Gurkha Rifles also has two additional reinforcement companies formed from personnel intended for its 3rd battalion
- ^ Jones, Tony (2023-11-30). "The Queen hails key infantry regiment at awards dinner". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ One battalion of the Parachute Regiment is assigned as part of the SFSG
- ^ "BBC Four - Regimental Stories, The Parachute Regiment, An Introduction to The Parachute Regiment". BBC. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Special Air Service (SAS) | History, Organization, & Operations | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2024-01-23. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "UK's special forces set for new Russia mission". BBC News. 2019-06-13. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Prince Harry receives his Army Air Corps provisional wings from his father, the Prince of Wales". The Telegraph. 2010-05-07. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ The regular Royal Artillery includes four units cap badged as Royal Horse Artillery
- ^ "Firepower display for Gunners' 300th anniversary". BBC News. 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ Hawkins, Laura (2016-07-29). "Royal Engineers Celebrate Anniversary With March Through Suffolk". Forces Network. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Royal Signals visit Italy to commemorate 80th anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino". Forces Network. 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Intelligence Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ The Honourable Artillery Company is operationally aligned with the Royal Artillery
- ^ The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers is operationally part of the Corps of Royal Engineers
- ^ "Royal Logistic Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Duchess of Edinburgh visits soldiers keeping the punch in British Army's fist". Forces Network. 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ a b c d e "Adjutant General's Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "From Celtic Warrior To Royal Military Police: Teaching The Next Generation Of Army Boxers". Forces Network. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Soldiers set world record for greatest number of countries crossed on foot". Forces Network. 2023-10-08. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "A third of the soldiers assigned to guard army bases lack basic". The Independent. 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Half of The British Army Band Colchester to be redeployed". BBC News. 2024-01-18. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "What role do chaplains provide in the Armed Forces?". Forces Network. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Small Arms School Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Royal Army Physical Training Corps , History, Timeline & Sporting Stars". Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "History of the Royal Army Medical Corps". www.museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "The Royal Army Veterinary Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "History of the Royal Army Dental Corps". www.museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ Archives, The National. "The National Archives - Homepage". The National Archives. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Royal Gibraltar Regiment returns from Morocco deplyment". Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Royal Bermuda Regiment". The Armourers Bench. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ a b c "'There's no words': British Overseas Territories troops' pride of coronation role". Forces Network. 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2024-02-12.
- ^ "Small but mighty: Meet the 40-strong Falklands Army". Forces Network. 2022-07-29. Retrieved 2024-02-12.