List of British Army Regiments (2008)

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This is a list of British Regular Army regiments as constituted in the aftermath of the defence white paper Delivering Security in a Changing World in 2004. Further amalgamations and reductions took place in the wake of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010, as indicated.

Cavalry

Household Cavalry

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

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

Royal Armoured Corps

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)
  • Amalgamated with The Queen's Royal Lancers to form the Royal Lancers in 2015
• The King's Royal Hussars
• The Light Dragoons
• The Queen's Royal Lancers
  • Amalgamated with 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) to form the Royal Lancers in 2015

The Royal Tank Regiment

• 1st Royal Tank Regiment
  • Amalgamated with 2nd Royal Tank Regiment to form the Royal Tank Regiment in 2014
• 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
  • Amalgamated with 1st Royal Tank Regiment to form the Royal Tank Regiment in 2014

Infantry

Foot Guards

• Grenadier Guards - 1 battalion
• Coldstream Guards - 1 battalion
• Scots Guards - 1 battalion
• Irish Guards - 1 battalion
• Welsh Guards - 1 battalion

Line Infantry

• Royal Regiment of Scotland - 5 battalions (reduced to 4 regular battalions in 2012) 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 battalions
• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border) - 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
  • King's Own Royal Border Regiment
  • King's Regiment
  • Queen's Lancashire Regiment
• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 2 battalions (reduced to 1 regular battalion in 2014)
• Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 battalions
• Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 3 battalions (reduced to 2 regular battalions in 2013) 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 battalions (reduced to 2 regular battalions in 2014) 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 battalions (reduced to 1 regular battalion in 2014) 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 battalion
• Parachute Regiment - 2 battalions
• Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 battalions
• The Rifles - 5 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