List of British Army regiments and corps

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This is a current list of regiments and corps of the British Army.

Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps

Household Cavalry

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

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

Line Cavalry

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
• The Royal Dragoon Guards
• The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
• The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own)
• The King's Royal Hussars
• The Light Dragoons

Royal Tank Regiment

• The Royal Tank Regiment

Yeomanry

• The Royal Yeomanry
• The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
• The Queen's Own Yeomanry
• The Scottish and North Irish 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^[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 + 2 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 - 3 + 1 battalions^[4]
• The Royal Gurkha Rifles - 3 + 0 battalions
• The Rifles - 5 + 3 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
• Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 0 + 1 Regiment

Combat Service Support

• 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
• 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
• Royal Bermuda Regiment
• Royal Montserrat Defence Force
• Cayman Regiment
• Turks and Caicos Regiment
• Falkland Islands Defence Force

Notes