List of British Army regiments
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This is a current list of regiments of the British Army (including the Army Reserve). This list will be updated through the ongoing implementation of Army 2020.
Contents
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Ceremonial
Armoured Regiments
- Queen's Royal Hussars (Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
- King's Royal Hussars
- The Royal Tank Regiment
- Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Armoured Cavalry Regiments
Light Cavalry
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
- Light Dragoons
- Royal Yeomanry
- Queen's Own Yeomanry
- Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry
Infantry
Note: When a regiment is described as having n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Army Reserve battalions.
Foot Guards
- Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[1]
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[1]
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[1]
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- London Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion
Line Infantry and Rifles
- Royal Regiment of Scotland - 4 + 2 battalions[2]
- Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 1 battalions
- Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) - 2 + 1 battalions
- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions
- Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 2 + 1 battalions
- Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions
- Mercian Regiment- 2 + 1 battalions
- Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
- Parachute Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions[3]
- Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 battalions
- The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions
Other Combat Arms
- Special Air Service 1 + 2 regiments
- Special Reconnaissance Regiment 1 regiment
- Army Air Corps 7 + 1 regiments
Combat Support
- Royal Regiment of Artillery 15 + 6 Regiments
- Corps of Royal Engineers 15 + 7 Regiments
- Royal Corps of Signals
- Intelligence Corps
- Honourable Artillery Company 0 + 1 Regiment
Combat Service Support
- 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
- Royal Army Physical Training Corps
- General Service Corps
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
- Corps of Army Music
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Scots Guards each have a single incremental company stationed in London on public duties that maintains the history and traditions of each regiment's 2nd Battalion, which are all in suspended animation
- ↑ The Royal Regiment of Scotland also has an incremental company assigned to public duties in Edinburgh
- ↑ One battalion of the Parachute Regiment is assigned as part of the SFSG
