List of British Army regiments and corps
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This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Army.
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Household Cavalry
For operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Line Cavalry
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
- The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
- The Royal Dragoon Guards
- The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
- The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
- The King's Royal Hussars
- The Light Dragoons
Royal Tank Regiment
Yeomanry
- The Royal Yeomanry
- The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
- The Queen's Own Yeomanry
- The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry
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[1]
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[1]
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[1]
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- London Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion[2]
Line Infantry and Rifles
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 4 + 2 battalions[3]
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 2 battalions
- The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
- The Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions[4]
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 3 + 0 battalions
- The Rifles - 5 + 3 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
- Intelligence Corps
- Honourable Artillery Company 0 + 1 Regiment
- Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 0 + 1 Regiment
Combat Service Support
- 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
- Royal Army Physical Training Corps
- General Service Corps
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
- Corps of Army Music
Notes
- ^ a b c The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Scots Guards each have a single incremental company stationed in London on public duties that maintains the history and traditions of each regiment's 2nd Battalion, which are all in suspended animation
- ^ According to HM Regulations for the Household Division, the HQ company and four rifle companies of the London Regiment are neither Foot Guards nor household troops; they are attached to the Division, rather than a constituent part of it.
- ^ 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
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