List of British Army regiments and corps

This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Armed Forces. ^[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

• 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

1. Oliver, Mark (1 June 2006). "How the British army organises its personnel". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 February 2024.
2. For operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
3. "Household Cavalry take summer camp beach ride". BBC News. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
4. "Cavalry | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
5. "BBC Four - Regimental Stories, The Royal Tank Regiment". BBC. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
6. "Army reservists granted freedom of Shrewsbury". BBC News. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
7. Horton, Kim (23 April 2022). "Gloucestershire soldier makes history in Estonia". Gloucestershire Live. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
8. "Soldiers in Freedom of City march". 15 May 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
9. "New army regiment forms in Scotland". BBC News. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
10. 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
11. 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 red signated the London Guards, without being a regiment in their own right
12. "The Guards Today - The Guards Museum". theguardsmuseum.com. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
13. The Royal Regiment of Scotland also has an incremental company assigned to public duties in Edinburgh
14. Allwood, Greg (13 May 2022). "Know Your Infantry – why are some British Army regiments more senior than others?". Forces Network. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
15. The Royal Gurkha Rifles also has two additional reinforcement companies formed from personnel intended for its 3rd battalion
16. Jones, Tony (30 November 2023). "The Queen hails key infantry regiment at awards dinner". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
17. One battalion of the Parachute Regiment is assigned as part of the SFSG
18. "BBC Four - Regimental Stories, The Parachute Regiment, An Introduction to The Parachute Regiment". BBC. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
19. Nicholls, Dominic (15 July 2021). "Ranger Regiment's first task likely be fighting Islamists in East Africa, says Defence Secretary". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 12 February 2024.
20. "Special Air Service (SAS) | History, Organization, & Operations | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
21. "UK's special forces set for new Russia mission". BBC News. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
22. "Prince Harry receives his Army Air Corps provisional wings from his father, the Prince of Wales". The Telegraph. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
23. The regular Royal Artillery includes four units cap badged as Royal Horse Artillery
24. "Firepower display for Gunners' 300th anniversary". BBC News. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
25. Hawkins, Laura (29 July 2016). "Royal Engineers Celebrate Anniversary With March Through Suffolk". Forces Network. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
26. "Royal Signals visit Italy to commemorate 80th anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino". Forces Network. 19 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
27. "Intelligence Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
28. The Honourable Artillery Company is operationally aligned with the Royal Artillery
29. The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers is operationally part of the Corps of Royal Engineers
30. "Royal Logistic Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
31. "Duchess of Edinburgh visits soldiers keeping the punch in British Army's fist". Forces Network. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
32. "Adjutant General's Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
33. "From Celtic Warrior To Royal Military Police: Teaching The Next Generation Of Army Boxers". Forces Network. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
34. "Soldiers set world record for greatest number of countries crossed on foot". Forces Network. 8 October 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
35. "A third of the soldiers assigned to guard army bases lack basic". The Independent. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
36. "Half of The British Army Band Colchester to be redeployed". BBC News. 18 January 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
37. "What role do chaplains provide in the Armed Forces?". Forces Network. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
38. "Small Arms School Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
39. "Royal Army Physical Training Corps , History, Timeline & Sporting Stars". Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
40. "History of the Royal Army Medical Corps". www.museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
41. "The Royal Army Veterinary Corps | National Army Museum". www.nam.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
42. "Royal Gibraltar Regiment returns from Morocco deplyment" . Retrieved 12 February 2024.
43. "Royal Bermuda Regiment". The Armourers Bench. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
44. "'There's no words': British Overseas Territories troops' pride of coronation role". Forces Network. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
45. "Small but mighty: Meet the 40-strong Falklands Army". Forces Network. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2024.