List of British Army regiments
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.
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Household Cavalry
Note - for operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Heavy Cavalry
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
- Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
- Royal Dragoon Guards
Light Cavalry
- The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
- The Royal Lancers
- King's Royal Hussars
- Light Dragoons
Royal Tank Regiment
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[2]
Line Infantry and Rifles
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 4 + 2 battalions[3]
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords)- 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
- The Parachute Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions[4]
- The 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
Notes
- 1 2 3 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
- ↑ According to HM Regulations for the Household Division, the HQ company and four rifle companies of the London Regiment are neither Foot Guards nor household troops; they are attached to the Division, rather than a constituent part of it.
- ↑ 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
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