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.

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

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

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

 * 1st Royal Tank Regiment
 * 2nd 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

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

The Army Air Corps

 * Army Air Corps

Support Arms

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

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 (Granted 'Royal' prefix in 2010)
 * General Service Corps
 * Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
 * Corps of Army Music