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

• The Life Guards^[2][3]
• The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)^[2][3]

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

• The Royal Tank Regiment^[5]

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]
• Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments^[23][24]
• 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 Military Police (RMP)^[33]
    • Military Provost Staff (MPS)^[34]
    • Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS)^[35]
• 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]
• Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon^[46]
• Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company^[47]

Notes

This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 19:35