Talk:Units of the British Army

message: I'm preparing to split away much of the discussion of active divisions, brigades etc into a Land Command article, leaving this page with 'what a corps is, what a division is' etc..
Thoughts?
Buckshot06 03:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: old comments

message: Given the large list of regiments on the page, not to mention the large number of historical regiments, should we really be mentioning a fictional regiment from a television show?  I removed it once but it has reappeared.  Cjrother 20:22, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The King's Own Fusiliers]] 

message: I'm not a big expert on military structure, but I do know that in the British Army some regiments consist of several battalions. For example the Parachute Regiment as several battalions - during World War II it had many more. A quick search reveals many references to "the 6th Battallion of the Queen's Regiment" and such like. 
Also I think you will find that a regiment is commanded by a full Colonel, at least if it has more than one battalion. For example you will find that "Lt. Colonel H Jones" was in command of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment when he was awarded his VC. It is unlikely that he had the same rank as the regimental commander. DJ Clayworth 15:55, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The infantry regiment is purely an administrative and ceremonial formation. It has no commander. Every battalion is an independent tactical unit commanded by a lieutenant-colonel (always known within the battalion as "the Colonel"). A full colonel is usually a staff officer and rarely holds any command of his own. All British Army infantry regiments are composed of battalions. Even in single-battalion regiments (currently most of them) you will have, for instance, 1st Battalion, The Black Watch. Regiments in the cavalry and other corps are battalion-sized units and are likewise commanded by lieutenant-colonels. The article is correct. -- Necrothesp 00:39, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: We have a problem here

message: I've heard it said that if the whole British Army were to parade at one go ( presumably on the M1, if that were long enough ) that if all artillery units have their guns on parade ( and other units do not have their colours on parade ) then artillery units take precedence as parading on the "right of the line" - i.e. to the right of all other units on parade.   Is this correct does anyone know ?  Perhaps something to this effect could be written under the "precedence" section.JRL 05:44, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: To make it even clearer its Chestnut Troop RHA , who are the right of the line JS1 (talk) 17:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To make it even even clearer it's actually King's Troop, Royal Horse ArtilleryBlackshod (talk) 20:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Interesting King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery and Chestnut Troop both here on WP claim this honour. Can anyone clear this up ? JS1 (talk) 20:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right of the line - with guns 

message: Where's all the stuff about companies and platoons and sections? --Khendon 18:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor units

message: I'm currently working on a project to create graphics of the structure of the most important Armies. i.e. French Army; German Army; Italian Army I also began to make a graphic of the structure of the British Army, but I’m stopping this work now as the available information is contradicting, chaotic and in no way sufficient: i.e. Both: the 7th Armoured Brigade and the 1st Mechanised Brigade declare on their official Homepage, that the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment is part of their Brigade.
And there are dozens of like cases all over the chaotic and conflicting official homepages of the Corps, the Regiments, Brigades and Divisions, and as I’m fed up with the British Army now (after having done 24 Army graphics now, the British Army gets to share the title “Worst Homepage” with the Belgian Armies Homepage) I will go on work on the Spanish Army in the meantime until someone updates the Wikipedia articles with up to date information on which regiments/battalions belong to which Division/Brigade and where the units are actually based. noclador
:I've created a graphic now based on the information I could find and about which I'm 95% sure that it is correct. Anyone with more info- have a look at the graphic and let me know what is to change and so we will finish the graphic one day. (The 3. divison is missing, as I'm not sure what the directly subordinated units are) --noclador 15:31, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Graphic of the Army Structure {{Done}}

message: It is perhaps time to update some sections, particularly on the Infantry, as the Restructuring listed has now taken place. HLGallon (talk) 01:12, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time for update? 

message: The image showing the structure of army brigades by Hammersfan appears to be simply a scan taken from one of the "Armed Forces of the United Kingdom" books edited by Charles Hayman.  The big givaway is the numbers after some of the units, these refer to footnotes in the aforementioned book. Victory Is Mine (talk) 14:32, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Copyright Violation 

message: http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/20130703-A2020_Update.pdf
Phd8511 (talk) 18:43, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New updated Orbat 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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Sammartinlai (talk) 12:21, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  This structure 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: I appreciate the great amount of historical work that has been put in by  over the last couple of weeks. However, this user is seriously looking like he or she is running afoul of WP:PRIMARYSOURCES, like another departed user who got thoroughly tangled in the ins and outs of the Royal Navy by working almost exclusively from the Navy List and suchlike. 
:"Unless restricted by another policy, primary sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.[d] Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. A primary source may be used on Wikipedia only to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. For example, an article about a novel may cite passages to describe the plot, but any interpretation needs a secondary source.
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We go off WP:SECONDARY sources here as the most trusted sources, peer-reviewed academic articles most of all. I would really like the contention that the "British armed forces .. were divided into Forces" properly referenced by a reference that actually says that, instead of trying to assume off the titles of part of the Army List. 
:Comments welcome.     Buckshot06 (talk) 18:20, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:PRIMARYSOURCES]]