List of British Army regiments and corps
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This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Armed Forces.[1]
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Household Cavalry
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
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 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
- Royal Army Medical Service - 9 + 15 units[40]
- Royal Army Veterinary Corps - 2 + 0 regiments[41]
Overseas regiments
- Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion[42]
- Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion[43]
- Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon[44]
- Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company[44]
- Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon[44]
- Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company[45]
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards and Irish Guards each have incremental companies stationed in London on public duties that maintains the history and traditions of each regiment's 2nd Battalion, which are all in suspended animation
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- ↑ The Royal Gurkha Rifles also has two additional reinforcement companies formed from personnel intended for its 3rd battalion
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- ↑ One battalion of the Parachute Regiment is assigned as part of the SFSG
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- ↑ The regular Royal Artillery includes four units cap badged as Royal Horse Artillery
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- ↑ The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers is operationally part of the Corps of Royal Engineers
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