List of British Army regiments and corps
This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Army.
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Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps
Line Cavalry
Royal Tank Regiment
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[2][3]
- Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion[2][3]
- Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
- London Guards - 0 + 1 battalion
Line Infantry and Rifles
- The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 3 + 2 battalions[4]
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions
- The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Mercian Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions
- The Royal Irish Regiment - 1 + 1 battalion
- The Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions[5]
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions[6]
- The Rifles - 4 + 3 battalions
- Ranger Regiment - 4 + 0 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[7]
- Corps of Royal Engineers 15 + 7 regiments
- Royal Corps of Signals 13 + 4 regiments
- Intelligence Corps 3 + 4 battalions
- Honourable Artillery Company 0 + 1 Regiment[8]
- Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 0 + 1 Regiment[9]
Combat Service Support
- Royal Army Chaplains' Department
- Royal Logistic Corps 13 + 11 regiments
- Royal Army Medical Corps 9 + 15 units
- Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 8 + 3 battalions
- 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
- Royal Corps of Army Music
Overseas Regiments
- Royal Gibraltar Regiment - 1 + 0 battalion
- Royal Bermuda Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion
- Royal Montserrat Defence Force - 0 + 1 platoon
- Cayman Islands Regiment - 0 + 1 company
- Turks and Caicos Regiment - 0 + 1 platoon
- Falkland Islands Defence Force - 0 + 1 company
Notes
- For operational purposes the two Household Cavalry regiments form a pair of joint units; the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
- The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards and Irish Guards each have incremental companies stationed in London on public duties that maintains the history and traditions of each regiment's 2nd Battalion, which are all in suspended animation
- The Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards and Irish Guards each have a reserve company. These companies formed the separate London Regiment until May 2022, when they were red signated the London Guards, without being a regiment in their own right
- 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
- The Royal Gurkha Rifles also has two additional reinforcement companies formed from personnel intended for its 3rd battalion
- The regular Royal Artillery includes four units cap badged as Royal Horse Artillery
- The Honourable Artillery Company is operationally aligned with the Royal Artillery
- The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers is operationally part of the Corps of Royal Engineers
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