List of British Regular Army regiments (1994)

Army Air Corps

Cavalry

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

Royal Armoured Corps

Heavy Cavalry

Light Cavalry
  • The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
    • formed by the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Hussars and The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 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

Infantry

The infantry in 1994 was divided into six divisions for administrative purposes:

  • Household Division: Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards.
  • Scottish Division: Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Royal Highland Fusiliers, Black Watch, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).
  • Queen's Division: Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Royal Anglian Regiment.
  • King's Division: Green Howards, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, King's Own Royal Border Regiment, King's Regiment.
  • Prince of Wales's Division: Cheshire Regiment, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Royal Regiment of Wales, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment.
  • Light Division: Light Infantry, Royal Green Jackets.

Foot Guards

Line Infantry
  • The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (one battalion)
  • The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) (two battalions)
    • The Queen's Regiment
    • The Royal Hampshire Regiment
  • The King's Own Royal Border Regiment (one battalion)
  • The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (two battalions)
  • The King's Regiment (one battalion)
  • The Royal Anglian Regiment (two battalions)
  • The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (one battalion)
  • The Light Infantry (two battalions)
  • The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (one battalion)
  • The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (one battalion)
  • The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) (one battalion)
  • The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment (one battalion)
  • The Royal Welch Fusiliers (one battalion)
  • The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) (one battalion)
  • The King's Own Scottish Borderers (one battalion)
  • The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) (one general service battalion; seven home service battalions)
    • The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)
    • The Ulster Defence Regiment
  • The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (one battalion)
    • The Gloucestershire Regiment
    • The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
  • The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (one battalion)
  • The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (one battalion)
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (one battalion)
  • The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) (one battalion)
  • The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (one battalion)
  • The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) (one battalion)
    • The Gordon Highlanders
    • The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
  • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) (one battalion)
  • The Parachute Regiment (three battalions)
  • The Royal Gurkha Rifles (three battalions: one battalion disbanded in 1996)
  • The Royal Green Jackets (two battalions)

Special Forces

Support Arms and Services

Support Arms

Services

See also
  • British Army Structure after the Options for Change

References
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