List of British Army Regiments (2008)
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
Household Cavalry
Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Royal Armoured Corps
Heavy Cavalry
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
- The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
- The Royal Dragoon Guards
Light Cavalry
- 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
Infantry
''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
- 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
- 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:
- *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
- 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
The Army Air Corps
Support Arms and Services
Support Arms
Services
- 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
- General Service Corps
- Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
- Corps of Army Music