# List of British Army Regiments (2008)

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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

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

### 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

* 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 and Services
### 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