List of British Army regiments and corps

This is a current list of regiments of the British Army (including the Army Reserve). This list will be updated through the ongoing implementation of Army 2020.

Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps

Household Cavalry

Note - for operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

Heavy Cavalry

Light Cavalry

Royal Tank Regiment

The Royal Tank Regiment

Yeomanry

Infantry

Note: When a regiment is described as having 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 + 1 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 - 2 + 1 battalions^[4]
The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 battalions
The Rifles - 5 + 2 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

Combat Service Support

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

[incremental-1] 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

[2] 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.

[3] The Royal Regiment of Scotland also has an incremental company assigned to public duties in Edinburgh

[4] One battalion of the Parachute Regiment is assigned as part of the SFSG

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