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The Rifles

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  • 2003: The Rifles
    • Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (1st Bn, 4th (V) Bn)
    • 1990: Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (1st Bn, 2nd (V) Bn)
      • Gloucestershire Regiment
      • Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
    • 1966: Light Infantry (1st Bn, 2nd Bn, 6th (V) Bn)
      • Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
      • King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
      • King's Shropshire Light Infantry
      • Durham Light Infantry
    • 1966: Royal Green Jackets (1st Bn, 2nd Bn, 5th (V) Bn)
      • 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd)
      • 2nd Green Jackets, King's Royal Rifle Corps
      • 3rd Green Jackets, Rifle Brigade

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Bn, (1st Bn, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment & 1st Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment)
  • 2nd Bn, (1st Bn, Royal Green Jackets)
  • 3rd Bn, (2nd Bn, Light Infantry)
  • 4th Bn, (2nd Bn, Royal Green Jackets) 2021 -> Ranger Regiment
  • 5th Bn, (1st Bn, Light Infantry)
  • 6th Bn, Rifle Volunteers
    • 6th (V) Bn, (Somerset and Cornwall) Light Infantry
    • 4th (V) Bn, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
    • 2nd (V) Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (part)
  • 7th Bn, Royal Rifle Volunteers
    • 6th/7th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (part)
    • 2nd (V) Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (part)
    • 5th (V) Bn, Royal Green Jackets
  • 8th Bn, (newly formed)

Parachute Regiment

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2023 battalions:

  • 1st Bn, Parachute Regiment -> Special Forces Support
  • 2nd Bn, Parachute Regiment
  • 3rd Bn, Parachute Regiment
  • 4th (V) Bn, Parachute Regiment
    • 4th (V) Bn, Parachute Regiment
    • 10th (V) Bn, Parachute Regiment

Royal Gurkha Rifles

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2023 battalions:

Guards Division

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Guards Division

  • Grenadier Guards
    • 1st Battalion
    • 2nd Battalion
      • No 2 Company, 2nd Bn, Grenadier Guards -> Nijmegen Company
  • Coldstream Guards
    • 1st Battalion
    • 2nd Battalion
      • No 7 Company, 2nd Bn, Coldstream Guards -> No 7 Company
  • Scots Guards
    • 1st Battalion
    • 2nd Battalion
      • F Company, 2nd Bn, Scots Guards -> F Company
  • Irish Guards
    • 1st Battalion
  • Welsh Guards
    • 1st Battalion

2023 battalions:

Queen's Division

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Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

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  • 1990: Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
    • Royal Hampshire Regiment
    • 1966: Queen's Regiment
      • Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
      • Queen's Own Buffs, Royal Kent Regiment
      • Royal Sussex Regiment
      • Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion
  • (2nd Bn) 2021 -> Ranger Regiment
  • 3rd (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires), formed 1999
    • 5th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
    • 6th/7th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) (part)
  • 4th (V) Bn, formed 2017

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

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  • 1966: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
    • Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
    • Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
    • Lancashire Fusiliers

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion
  • 5th (V) Bn, Tyne-Tees Regiment
    • 6th (V) Bn, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • 4th/5th (V) Bn, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • 7th (V) Bn, (Durham) Light Infantry

Royal Anglian Regiment

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2023 battalions:

  • 1st Bn, (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) + (16th/44th Foot)
  • 2nd Bn, (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) + Royal Leicestershire Regiment + (16th/44th Foot)
  • 3rd (V) Bn, East of England Regiment
    • 6th (V) Bn, Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 7th (V) Bn, Royal Anglian Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (2004 -> Mercian Regiment)

King's Division

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Duke of Lancaster's Regiment

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  • 2003: Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
    • King's Own Royal Border Regiment
    • King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester)
    • 1966: Queen's Lancashire Regiment
      • Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
      • Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

2023 battalions:

Royal Yorkshire Regiment

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  • 2003: Royal Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
    • Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
    • Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
    • Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion
  • 2nd Battalion
  • 4th Bn, East and West Riding Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry) (former: 8th (V) Bn, (Yorkshire) Light Infantry)

Mercian Regiment

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  • 2003: Mercian Regiment (Cheshires, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords)
    • Cheshire Regiment
    • Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
    • 1966: Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
      • Worcestershire Regiment
      • Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion
  • 4th Bn, West Midlands Regiment
    • 5th (V) Bn, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
    • 5th (V) Bn, (Shropshire and Herefordshire) Light Infantry
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (part)
    • (3rd (V) Bn, Cheshire Regiment)

Scottish, Welsh and Irish Division

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Royal Regiment of Scotland

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  • 2003: Royal Regiment of Scotland
    • 2003: Royal Scots Borderers
      • Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
      • King's Own Scottish Borderers
    • Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
    • The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
    • 1990: The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
      • Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
      • Gordon Highlanders
    • Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion (Royal Scots Borderers) 2021 -> Ranger Regiment
  • 2nd Bn, Royal Highland Fusiliers
  • 3rd Bn, The Black Watch
  • 4th Bn, The Highlanders
  • Balaklava Company, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (ex 5th Bn)
  • 6th Bn, 52nd Lowland Volunteers = 52nd Lowland Regiment
    • Lowland Volunteers
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
  • 7th Bn, 51st Highland Volunteers = 51st Highland Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
    • 3rd (V) Bn, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
    • 7th/8th (V) Bn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

Royal Welsh

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  • 2006: Royal Welsh
    • Royal Welch Fusiliers
    • 1966: Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
      • South Wales Borderers
      • Welch Regiment

2023 battalions:

  • 1st Battalion
  • 3rd Bn, Royal Welsh Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers
    • 2nd (V) Bn, Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)

Royal Irish Regiment

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  • 2003: Royal Irish Regiment
    • Ulster Defence Regiment
    • 1966: Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)
      • Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
      • Royal Ulster Rifles
      • Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)

2023 battalions:

1999-2006 infantry reserves

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34 battalions reduced to 15:

  • 3rd (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
    • 5th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
    • 6th/7th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) (part)
  • Royal Rifle Volunteers -> 7th Bn, The Rifles
    • 6th/7th (V) Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) (part)
    • 2nd (V) Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (part)
    • 5th (V) Bn, Royal Green Jackets
  • Tyne-Tees Regiment -> 5th Bn, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • 6th (V) Bn, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • 4th/5th (V) Bn, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • 7th (V) Bn, (Durham) Light Infantry
  • West Midlands Regiment -> 4th Bn, Mercian Regiment
    • 5th (V) Bn, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
    • 5th (V) Bn, (Shropshire and Herefordshire) Light Infantry
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (part)
  • King's and Cheshire Regiment -> disbanded
    • 5th/8th (V) Bn, King's Regiment -> coys to Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers -> 4th Bn (V), Duke of Lancaster's Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Cheshire Regiment -> coys to West Midlands Regiment -> 4th Bn (V), Mercian Regiment
  • Rifle Volunteers -> 6th Bn, The Rifles
    • 6th (V) Bn, (Somerset and Cornwall) Light Infantry
    • 4th (V) Bn, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (1st Rifle Volunteers)
    • 2nd (V) Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (part)
  • East and West Riding Regiment -> 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • 3rd (V) Bn, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
    • King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry) (former: 8th (V) Bn, (Yorkshire) Light Infantry)
  • 51st Highland Regiment -> 7th Bn, Royal Regiment of Scotland
    • 3rd (V) Bn, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
    • 3rd (V) Bn, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
    • 7th/8th (V) Bn, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
  • 4th (V) Battalion, Parachute Regiment -> 4th Bn, Parachute Regiment
    • 4th (V) Battalion, Parachute Regiment
    • 10th (V) Battalion, Parachute Regiment

later formations

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  • 2017: 4th Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
  • 2017: 8th Bn, The Rifles

Infantry 1989

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Guards

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Infantry

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1x battalion:

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2x battalions:

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52nd Lowland Volunteers

  • 1st Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers (V) (King's Own Scottish Borderers & Royal Highland Fusiliers) 1995 -> 3rd (V) Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers
  • 2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers (V) (Royal Scots)

Cheshire Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
  • 3rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment (V)

Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
  • 4th Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (V)

King's Own Royal Border Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment
  • 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment (V)

King's Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, King's Regiment
  • 5th/8th Battalion, King's Regiment (V)

Queen's Lancashire Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment
  • 4th Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment (V)

Royal Welch Fusiliers

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • 3rd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers (V)

Staffordshire Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
  • 3rd Battalion, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) (V)

Wessex Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment (V) (Gloucestershire Regiment)
  • 2nd Battalion, Wessex Regiment (V) (Royal Hampshire Regiment & Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment)

3x battalions:

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51st Highland Volunteers

  • 1st Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers (V) (The Black Watch) 1995 -> 3rd (V) Battalion, The Black Watch
  • 2nd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers (V) (Gordon Highlanders & Queen's Own Highlanders) 1995 -> 3rd (V) Battalion, The Highlanders
  • 3rd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers (V) (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) 1995 -> 7th/8th (V) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Royal Regiment of Wales

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales
  • 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales (V)
  • 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales (V)

Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters

  • 1st Battalion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters
  • 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (V)
  • 4th Battalion, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (V)

4x battalions:

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Royal Irish Rangers

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers
  • 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers
  • 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers (V) (North Irish Militia)
  • 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers (V)

Yorkshire Volunteers

  • 1st Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (V) (Green Howards) 1993 -> 4th/5th Battalion, Green Howards (Yorkshire Volunteers)
  • 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (V) (Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire) 1993 -> 3rd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers)
  • 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (V) (Duke of Wellington's Regiment) 1992 merged with 4th Battalion; 1993 -> 3rd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Yorkshire Volunteers)
  • 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (V)

5x battalions:

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Queen's Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Queen's Regiment (Queen's Surreys)
  • 2nd Battalion, Queen's Regiment (Queen's Own Buffs)
  • 3rd Battalion, Queen's Regiment (Royal Sussex)
  • 5th Battalion, Queen's Regiment (V)
  • 6th/7th Battalion, Queen's Regiment (V)
  • 8th Battalion, Queen's Fusiliers (V) jointly formed in 1988 with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; 1993 -> London Regiment

Royal Green Jackets

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets
  • 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets
  • 3rd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets
  • 4th Battalion, Royal Green Jackets (V)
  • 5th Battalion, Royal Green Jackets (V)

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
  • 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
  • 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
  • 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (V)
  • 6th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (V)
  • 8th Battalion, Queen's Fusiliers (V) jointly formed in 1988 with the Queen's Regiment; 1993 -> London Regiment

6x battalions:

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Royal Anglian Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment
  • 5th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (V)
  • 6th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (V)
  • 7th Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (V)

7x battalions:

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The Light Infantry

  • 1st Battalion, The Light Infantry
  • 2nd Battalion, The Light Infantry
  • 3rd Battalion, The Light Infantry
  • 5th Battalion, The Light Infantry (V) (Shropshire and Herefordshire)
  • 6th Battalion, The Light Infantry (V)
  • 7th Battalion, The Light Infantry (V) (Durham)
  • 8th Battalion, The Light Infantry (V) (Yorkshire)

Parachute Regiment

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Parachute Regiment

  • 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
  • 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (V)
  • 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (V)
  • 15th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (V)

Cavalry

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Lineage

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  • 1922: Life Guards
    • 1st Life Guards
    • 2nd Life Guards
  • 1969: Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) - 1x Horse Guards + 1x Dragoons
    • Royal Horse Guards
    • Royal Dragoons
  • 1959: 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards - 2x Dragoon Guards
    • 1st King's Dragoon Guards
    • 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
  • 1966: Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) - 2x Dragoon Guards + 1x Dragoons
    • 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards)
    • 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
  • Royal Dragoon Guards - 3x Dragoon Guards + 1x Dragoons
    • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
    • 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
  • 1990: Queen's Royal Hussars (Queen's Own and Royal Irish) - 4x Hussars
    • Queen's Own Hussars
    • Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 2015: Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) - 6x Lancers
    • 1990: Queen's Royal Lancers
      • 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers
      • 17th/21st Lancers
    • 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
  • 1990: Light Dragoons - 4x Hussars
    • 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
    • 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars
  • 1990: King's Royal Hussars - 4x Hussars
    • 1966: Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
      • 10th (Prince Of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
      • 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
    • 14th/20th King's Hussars

List of regiments

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  • 1st Regiment of Life Guards
  • 2nd Regiment of Life Guards
  • Royal Horse Guards
  • 1st King's Dragoon Guards
  • 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
  • 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's)
  • 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)
  • 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
  • 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
  • 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)
  • 1st Royal Dragoons
  • 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
  • 3rd Hussars (King's Own)
  • 4th Hussars (Queen's Own)
  • 5th Lancers (Royal Irish)
  • 6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)
  • 7th Hussars (Queen's Own)
  • 8th Hussars (King's Royal Irish)
  • 9th Lancers (Queen's Royal)
  • 10th Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own Royal)
  • 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
  • 12th Lancers (Prince of Wales's Royal)
  • 13th Hussars
  • 14th Hussars (King's)
  • 15th Hussars (The King's)
  • 16th Lancers (Queen's)
  • 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
  • 18th Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
  • 19th Hussars (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal)
  • 20th Hussars
  • 21st Lancers (Empress of India's)

Royal Tank Regiment

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  • 2014: Royal Tank Regiment
    • 1992: 1st Royal Tank Regiment
      • 1st Royal Tank Regiment
      • 4th Royal Tank Regiment
    • 1992: 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
      • 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
      • 3rd Royal Tank Regiment

Cavalry 1989

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  • Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
  • Life Guards
  • Blues and Royals
  • Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
  • 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
  • 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
  • Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • Queen's Own Hussars
  • Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 13th/18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars
  • 14th/20th King's Hussars
  • 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars
  • 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
  • 16th/5th Queen's Royal Lancers
  • 17th/21st Lancers
  • 1st Royal Tank Regiment
  • 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
  • 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
  • 4th Royal Tank Regiment

Yeomanry

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Royal Yeomanry

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  • Royal Yeomanry 2023:
    • A (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) Squadron
    • B (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron
    • C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Squadron
    • D (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron
    • E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron
    • F (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron

Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

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  • Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry 2014: disbanded
  • A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron -> Royal Yeomanry
  • B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron -> Royal Yeomanry
  • C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron -> Queen's Own Yeomanry
  • D (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron -> Queen's Own Yeomanry

Queen's Own Yeomanry

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  • Queen's Own Yeomanry 2023:
    • A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron
    • B (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron
    • C (Cheshire Yeomanry (The Earl of Chester's)) Squadron
    • D (Northumberland Hussars) Squadron

Royal Wessex Yeomanry

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  • Royal Wessex Yeomanry 2023:
    • A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron
    • B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron
    • C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron
    • D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron
    • Y (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron - will merge into C Squadron

Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry

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  • Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry 2023:
    • A (Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry)
    • B (North Irish Horse) Squadro
    • C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadron
    • E (Lothians and Border Horse) Squadron

Divisions & Brigades

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Divisions:

Brigades:

Royal Artillery

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Royal Horse Artillery:

Royal Artillery:

Royal Engineers

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Royal Logistic Corps

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Transport regiments:

Postal and Courier regiments:

  • 1 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers
  • 2 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers
  • 4 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers (NATO)
  • 5 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers (V)
  • 6 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers (V)
  • 7 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers (V)
  • 8 Postal and Courier Regiment, Royal Engineers (V)

Army Air Corps

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Royal Military Police

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Royal Corps of Signals

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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

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Royal Army Medical Corps

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Royal Army Veterinary Corps

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Intelligence Corps

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