List of British Army regiments and corps
This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Army.
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Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Line Cavalry
Royal Tank Regiment
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[2][3]
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- London Guards - 0 + 1 battalion
Line Infantry and Rifles
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 3 + 2 battalions[4]
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions
- The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Mercian Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Irish Regiment - 1 + 1 battalion
- The Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions[5]
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions[6]
- The Rifles - 4 + 3 battalions
- Ranger Regiment - 4 + 0 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 13 + 4 regiments
- Intelligence Corps 3 + 4 battalions
- Honourable Artillery Company 0 + 1 Regiment
- Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 0 + 1 Regiment
Combat Service Support
- Royal Army Chaplains' Department
- Royal Logistic Corps 13 + 11 regiments
- Royal Army Medical Corps 9 + 15 units
- Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 8 + 3 battalions
- 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
- Royal Corps of Army Music
Overseas Regiments
- Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion
- Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion
- Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon
- Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company
- Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon
- Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company
List of Notable Regiments Between 1918-1944-2023
| 1918 | 1944 | 2023 |
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| Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards | Grenadier Guards |
| Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards | Coldstream Guards |
| Scots Guards | Scots Guards | Scots Guards |
| Irish Guards | Irish Guards | Irish Guards |
| Welsh Guards | Welsh Guards | Welsh Guards |
| Royal Scots | Royal Scots | Royal Scots |
| Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) | Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) | Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers | King's Own Scottish Borderers | Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) | Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) | None (merged with The Royal Scots) |
| Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | Royal Irish Regiment |
| Royal Ulster Rifles | Royal Ulster Rifles | Royal Irish Regiment |
| Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) | Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) | None (merged with Royal Irish Regiment) |
| South Wales Borderers | South Wales Borderers | The Royal Welsh |
| King's Shropshire Light Infantry | King's Shropshire Light Infantry | None (merged with The Light Infantry) |
| Worcestershire Regiment | Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters | Mercian Regiment |
| Royal Warwickshire Regiment | Royal Warwickshire Regiment | None (merged with The Mercian Regiment) |
| Royal Norfolk Regiment | Royal Norfolk Regiment | The Royal Anglian Regiment |
| Essex Regiment | Essex Regiment | The Royal Anglian Regiment |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | None (merged with The Essex Regiment) |
| Suffolk Regiment | Suffolk Regiment | The Royal Anglian Regiment |
| Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | The Light Infantry |
| Devonshire Regiment | Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | None (merged with The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment) |
| Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) | Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) | None (merged with The Light Infantry) |
| Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry | Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry | None (merged with The Rifles) |
| Gloucestershire Regiment | Gloucestershire Regiment | The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment |
| Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) | Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) | None (merged with The Yorkshire Regiment) |
| East Yorkshire Regiment | East Yorkshire Regiment | The Yorkshire Regiment |
| South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) | South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) | The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment |
| York and Lancaster Regiment | York and Lancaster Regiment | The Yorkshire Regiment |
| Highland Light Infantry | Highland Light Infantry | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Cameron Highlanders | Cameron Highlanders | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Seaforth Highlanders | Seaforth Highlanders | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Gordon Highlanders | Gordon Highlanders | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Royal Scots Fusiliers | Royal Scots Fusiliers | None (merged with The Highlanders) |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers | King's Own Scottish Borderers | Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) | Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) | The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
| Liverpool Regiment | King's Regiment (Liverpool) | None (merged with The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment) |
| East Lancashire Regiment | East Lancashire Regiment | The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment |
| Manchester Regiment | Manchester Regiment | None (merged with The King's Regiment) |
| Loyal North Lancashire Regiment | Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) | The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment |
| Cheshire Regiment | Cheshire Regiment | The Mercian Regiment |
| Royal Welsh Fusiliers | Royal Welch Fusiliers | The Royal Welsh |
| South Staffordshire Regiment | South Staffordshire Regiment | None (merged with The Mercian Regiment) |
| North Staffordshire Regiment | North Staffordshire Regiment | None (merged with The South Staffordshire Regiment) |
| Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) | Mercian Regiment |
| East Surrey Regiment | East Surrey Regiment | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| Middlesex Regiment | Middlesex Regiment | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) | The Rifles |
| London Regiment (King's Royal Rifle Corps) | London Regiment (King's Royal Rifle Corps) | None (merged with The Rifles) |
| Hampshire Regiment | Hampshire Regiment | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) | Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) | The Rifles |
| King's Royal Rifle Corps | King's Royal Rifle Corps | The Rifles |
| Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) | Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) | Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) | The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) | Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) | None (merged with The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment) |
| Royal Sussex Regiment | Royal Sussex Regiment | The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment |
| Essex Regiment | Essex Regiment | The Royal Anglian Regiment |
| Bedfordshire Regiment | Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | None (merged with The Essex Regiment) |
| Hertfordshire Regiment | Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment | None (merged with The Essex Regiment) |
| Cambridgeshire Regiment | Cambridgeshire Regiment | None (disbanded after WWI |
Notes
- For operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
- 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
- The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards and Irish Guards each have a reserve company. These companies formed the separate London Regiment until May 2022, when they were redesignated the London Guards, without being a regiment in their own right
- 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
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles also has two additional reinforcement companies formed from personnel intended for its 3rd battalion
- https://www.hangerlondon.com/british-army-unit-structure/
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