List of British Army regiments and corps
Current regiments and corps of the British Army. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Armed Forces.[1]
Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Household Cavalry
Line cavalry
Royal Tank Regiment
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[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 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
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