List of British Army Regiments (2008) explained

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

Household Cavalry

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

• The Life Guards
• The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)

Royal Armoured Corps

Heavy Cavalry

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
• The Royal Dragoon Guards

Light Cavalry

• 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

• 1st Royal Tank Regiment
• 2nd Royal Tank Regiment

Infantry

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

• 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

• 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:
  • King's Own Royal Border Regiment
  • King's Regiment
  • Queen's Lancashire Regiment
• 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:
  • Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
  • The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• Mercian Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
  • 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment
  • Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
  • The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
• Royal Welsh - 2 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
  • Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
• Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
• Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions
• Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions
• The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
  • Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
  • The Light Infantry
  • Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
  • Royal Green Jackets

Special Forces

• Special Air Service
• Special Reconnaissance Regiment
• Special Forces Support Group

The Army Air Corps

• Army Air Corps

Support Arms and Services

Support Arms

• Royal Regiment of Artillery
• Corps of Royal Engineers
• Royal Corps of Signals
• Intelligence Corps

Services

• 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

• UK MoD: Delivering Security in a Changing World (PDF)
• Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities
• House of Commons Hansard: Future Capabilities