List of British Army Regiments (2008)

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This is a list of British Regular Army regiments as constituted as a result of the British defence white paper Delivering Security in a Changing World in 2004 and "Delivering Security in a Changing World Future Capabilities" in 2005.

## Cavalry

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### Household Cavalry

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#### Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

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

### Royal Armoured Corps

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#### Heavy Cavalry

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* 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
* The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
* The Royal Dragoon Guards

#### Light Cavalry

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* The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
* 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
* The King's Royal Hussars
* The Light Dragoons
* The Queen's Royal Lancers

#### The Royal Tank Regiment

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* 1st Royal Tank Regiment
* 2nd Royal Tank Regiment

## Infantry

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Note: When a regiment is described as having n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Territorial Army battalions.

### Foot Guards

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* Grenadier Guards \- 1 + 0 battalion
* Coldstream Guards \- 1 + 0 battalion
* Scots Guards \- 1 + 0 battalion
* Irish Guards \- 1 + 0 battalion
* Welsh Guards \- 1 + 0 battalion
* London Regiment \- 0 + 1 battalion

### Line Infantry

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* Royal Regiment of Scotland \- 5 + 2 battalions 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 + 1 battalions
* Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border) \- 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:[note 1]
* King's Own Royal Border Regiment
* King's Regiment
* Queen's Lancashire Regiment
* Royal Regiment of Fusiliers \- 2 + 1 battalions
* Royal Anglian Regiment \- 2 + 1 battalions
* Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) \- 3 + 1 battalions 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 + 1 battalions 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 + 1 battalions 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 + 1 battalion
* Parachute Regiment \- 3 + 1 battalions [note 2]
* Royal Gurkha Rifles \- 2 + 0 battalions
* The Rifles \- 5 + 2 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

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* Special Air Service
* Special Reconnaissance Regiment
* Special Forces Support Group

## The Army Air Corps

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* Army Air Corps

## Support Arms and Services

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### Support Arms

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* Royal Regiment of Artillery
* Corps of Royal Engineers
* Royal Corps of Signals
* Intelligence Corps

### Services

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* 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

## External links

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* UK MoD: Delivering Security in a Changing World (PDF)
* Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities
* House of Commons Hansard: Future Capabilities

## Notes

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1. ^ The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was initially formed with three regular battalions, before settling into its final complement of two
2. ^ 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment forms the major element of the Special Forces Support Group, and is therefore not grouped with the rest of the infantry

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