List of British Army Regiments (2008)

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.

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Cavalry

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

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

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
• The 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:[note 1]
  • 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 [note 2]
• 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

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Notes

1. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was initially formed with three regular battalions, before settling into its final complement of two
2. 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment forms the major element of the Special Forces Support Group, and is therefore not grouped with the rest of the infantry