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British Army 1995----British
Army 2005----British Army 2007
British Army Regiments Badges 2004
& 2008
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Infantry • Cavalry • Guards • Royal Armoured Corp•
Services
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Infantry Regiments
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British Army Regiments Badges
2004 & 2008
Royal Armoured
Corp
Services
Note:
Above badges and regiments are British Army Pre 1970, followed by
a list of British Army 1995 and 2005
Regiments of the British Army 1995
Household
Cavalry Regiments
The
Life Guards
The
Blues & Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Royal
Armoured Corps
1st
The Queen's Dragoon Guards
The
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
The
Royal Dragoon Guards
The
Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own & Royal Irish.)
9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales)
The King's Royal Hussars
The Light Dragoons
The Queen's Royal Lancers
Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Corps of Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
Guards
Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards
Irish Guards
Welsh Guards
Infantry
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment (Queens and Royal Hampshire)
The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
The Kings Regiment
The Royal Anglian Regiment
The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment
The Light Infantry
The Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire
The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess Margarets Own Glasgow &
Ayrshire Regiment)
The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margarets Own Glasgow and
Ayrshire Regiment)
The Cheshire Regiment
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st)
The Kings Own Scottish Borderers
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th Inniskilling) 83rd & 87th &
The Ulster Defence Regiment.
The Royal Gloucestershire , Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment
The Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th
Foot)
The Queens Lancashire Regiment
The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Riding)
The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales)
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons & Cameroons)
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
The Parachute Regiment
The Royal Gurkha Rifles
The Queens Gurkha Engineers
Queens Gurkha Signals
The Queens Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
The Royal Green Jackets
Special Air Service Regiment
Army Air Corps
Services
Royal Army Chaplains Department
Royal Logistic Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
Adjutant Generals Corps
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Small Arms School Corps
Royal Army Dental Corps
Intelligence Corps
Army Physical Training Corps
General Service Corps
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Corps of Army Music
The Gibraltar Regiment
(extracted from Land Forces of
Britain, The Empire and Commonwealth:with thanks.
Regiments of the British Army 2005
Guards Division
(5 Regular battalions in 5 regiments - no change; confirmed Dec. 2004)
Grenadier Guards
1st Battalion
Coldstream Guards
1st Battalion
Scots Guards
1st Battalion
Irish Guards
1st Battalion
Welsh Guards
1st Battalion
Guards Battalion [T.A.] - redesignation of The London Regiment [prediction]
A (London Scottish) Company at Westminster, London - ex A Coy, London
Regt
B (Middlesex) Company at Edgware - ex B Coy, London Regt
C (London Irish) Company at London - ex D Coy, London Regt
D (Royal Green Jackets) Company at Fulham and Davies Street, London
- ex F Coy, London Regt
E (Royal Green Jackets) Company at West Ham, London - ex G Coy, London
Regt
Scottish Division (5 Regular battalions in 1 regiment)
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
new "large" regiment; provisional regt and bn titles announced
Dec. 2004
The Royal Scots and King's Own Scottish Borderers (1st Battalion The
Royal Regiment of Scotland) - merger of 1st Bn Royal Scots and 1st
Bn KOSB
The Royal Highland Fusiliers (2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of
Scotland) - ex 1st Bn RHF
The Black Watch (3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland) - ex
1st Bn Black Watch
The Highlanders (4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland) - ex
1st Bn The Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5th Battalion The Royal Regiment
of Scotland) - ex 1st Bn Argyll & Sutherland Hlders
6th Battalion [T.A.] - ex 52nd Lowland Regt [prediction]
A (Royal Scots) Company at Edinburgh
B (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Company at Ayr
C (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Company at Glasgow
D (King's Own Scottish Borderers) Company at Galashiels
7th Battalion [T.A.] - ex 51st Highland Regt [prediction]
A (Black Watch) Company at Dundee
B (Gordons) Company at Peterhead
C (Seaforth & Camerons) Company at Inverness
D (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Company at Dumbarton
E (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Company at Stirling
Queen's Division (6 Regular battalions in 3 regiments)
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
large regt was created in 1993, but omits "Queen's and Royal
Hampshires"; absorbs Berkshire and Wiltshire element of RGBW
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - ex 3rd Bn PWRR + one 2 coys [prediction]
HQ (The Buffs) Company at Canterbury
A (Queen's Royal Surreys) Company at Farnham
B (Royal Sussex) Company at Brighton
C (Princess of Wales's Hampshire) Company at Portsmouth - ex C Coy,
Royal Rifle Vols and re-badged from PWRR
D (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Company at Reading & Swindon - ex
RGBW Coy, Royal Rifle Vols
E (Royal West Kent) Company at Canterbury
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
large regt was formed in 1968 [no change]
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - formed by reorganisation of companies [prediction]:
A (Warwickshire) Company at Sheldon, Birmingham - ex A Coy, West Midlands
Regt
C (City of London) Company at Balham, London - ex C Coy, London Regt
X (Northumberland) Company at Newcastle upon Tyne - ex X Coy, Tyne
Tees Regt
Z (Northumberland) Company at Ashington - ex Z Coy, Tyne Tees Regt
The Royal Anglian Regiment
large regt was formed in 1964 [no change]
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - ex East of England Regt, less D (WSFR) Coy
[prediction]:
HQ (Suffolk) Company at Blenheim Camp, Bury St Edmunds
A (Norfolk and Suffolk) Company at Norwich & Lowestoft
B (Lincolnshire) Company at Lincoln
C (Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) Company at Leicester &
Northampton
E (Essex and Hertfordshire) Company at Chelmsford
King's Division (5 Regular battalions in 2 regiments)
The King's, Lancashire and Border Regiment
new "large" regiment; 3 regular bns (1st Bn KORBR, 1st Bn
King's, 1st Bn Queen's Lancashire Regt) merge into 2 without subtitles
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - ex Lancastrian & Cumbrian Regt + King's
coys [prediction]
HQ (Quebec) Company at Kimberley Barracks, Preston
A Tobruk (King's Own Royal Border Regiment) Company at Barrow in Furness
B Somme (Queen's Lancashire Regiment) Company at Preston
C Sicily (King's Own Royal Border Regiment) Company at Workington
D Waterloo (Queen's Lancashire Regiment) Company at Blackburn
E (King's) Company at Liverpool including Liverpool Scottish Pln --
ex A Coy, King's & Cheshire Regt
F (King's) Company at Manchester - ex C Coy, King's & Cheshire
Regt
The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th)
new "large" regiment; senior Colonel-in-Chief lends her
name (having been Honorary Colonel of all Yorkshire Volunteers from
1968); between 2006-2008 3 regular bns merge into 2 and omit subtitles;
TA reverts closely to 1967 structure
1st Battalion (Prince of Wales's Own)- ex 1st Bn POWORY
2nd Battalion (Green Howards) - ex 1st Bn Green Howards
3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington's)- ex 1st Bn Duke of Wellington's
Regt
4th Battalion [T.A.] - ex East & West Riding Regt + GH coys +
Durham (LI) Coy [prediction]
A (Green Howards) Company at Scarborough - ex A Coy, Tyne Tees Regt
B (Green Howards) Company at Middlesbrough - ex B Coy Tyne Tees Regt
Ypres Company (Duke of Wellington's Regiment) at Huddersfield
Fontenay Company (Duke of Wellington's Regiment) at Barnsley
Quebec Company (Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire) at Hull
Imphal Company (Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire) at York
Minden Company at Wakefield - ex Minden Coy, East & West Riding
Regt
Durham Company at Bishop Auckland - ex C Coy, Tyne Tees Regt
Prince of Wales's Division (5 Regular battalions in 2 regiments)
The Mercian Regiment
new "large" regiment
1st Battalion (Cheshires) - ex 1st Bn Cheshire Regt
2nd Battalion (Worcesters and Foresters) - ex 1st Bn WSFR
3rd Battalion (Staffords) - ex 1st Bn Staffordshire Regt
4th Battalion [T.A.] - formed by reorganisation of companies [prediction]:
A (Cheshire) Company at Warrington - ex B Coy, King's & Cheshire
Regt
B (Cheshire) Company at Crewe -- ex D Coy, King's & Cheshire Regt
C (Worcestershire) Company at Kidderminster - ex B Coy, West Midlands
Regt
D (Staffordshire) Company at Burton-on-Trent - ex C Coy, West Midlands
Regt
E (Staffordshire) Company at Stoke-on-Trent - ex D Coy, West Midlands
Regt
F (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Company at Mansfield - ex D Coy,
East of England Regt
The Royal Welsh
new "large" regiment
1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh (The Royal Welch Fusiliers) - ex 1st
Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers
2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales) - ex
1st Bn Royal Regt of Wales
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - ex Royal Welsh Regt [prediction]
A (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Company at Colwyn Bay
B (Royal Regiment of Wales) Company at Swansea
C (Royal Regiment of Wales) Company at Cardiff
D (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Company at Wrexham
Light Division (4 Regular battalions in 2 regiments)
The Light Infantry
large regt was formed in 1968
1st Battalion - formed by merger of 1st Bn Devonshire and Dorset Regt
and Gloucestershire element of 1st Bn RGBW
2nd Battalion - redesignation of 1st Bn
3rd Battalion - redesignation of 2nd Bn
4th Battalion [T.A.] - formed by reorganisation of companies [prediction]:
A (Devonshire) Company at Pymouth & Exeter - - ex E Coy, Rifle
Vols
B (Somerset) Company at Taunton - ex B Coy, Rifle Vols
C (Cornwall) Company at Truro - ex D Coy, Rifle Vols
D (Gloucestershire) Company at Gloucester - ex RGBW Coy, Rifle Vols
E (Dorset) Company at Dorchester - ex C Coy, Rifle Vols
F (Shropshire & Herefordshire) Company at Shrewsbury & Hereford,
ex E Coy, West Midlands Regt
The Royal Green Jackets
large regt was formed in 1966 [no change]
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion [T.A.] - formed by reorganisation of companies [prediction]:
HQ Company at Battersea, London - ex HQ Coy, London Regt
A (Oxfordshire) Company at Oxford - ex A Coy, Royal Rifle Vols
B (Buckinghamshire) Company at Milton Keynes - ex E Coy, Royal Rifle
Vols
non-divisional (7 Regular battalions in 4 regiments - no changes)
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd & 87th &
The Ulster Defence Regt)
large regt was created in 1968 (and modified in 1992); Home Service
bns continue to reduce, merge, and finally disband upon conclusion
of peace settlement in Northern Ireland; TA reverts closely to 1967
structure
1st Battalion - no change
2nd (Rangers) Battalion [T.A.] - ex Royal Irish Rangers
HQ Company at Portadown
A Company at Newtownards
B Company at Abbotscroft, Newtownabbey
3rd (Home Service) Battalion - ex 2nd Bn
4th (Home Service) Battalion - ex 3rd Bn
5th (Home Service) Battalion - ex 4th Bn
The Parachute Regiment
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion [T.A.]
10 (London) Company at White City, London
12 (Yorkshire) Company at Pudsey
15 (Scottish) Company at Glasgow
The Royal Gurkha Rifles
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
Special Air Service Regiment
22nd SAS
21st SAS [T.A.]
23rd SAS [T.A.]
British Army 2007/8
Household Cavalry Regiment
The Life Guards
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Royal Horse Artillery
Royal Armoured Corps
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
The Royal Dragoon Guards
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
Royal Tank Regiment
Special Reconnaissance Regiment
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Corps of Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
Guards
Grenadier Guards
Coldstream Guards
Scots Guards
Irish Guards
Welsh Guards
Infantry
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
The Royal Anglian Regiment
The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th)
The Mercian Regiment
The Royal Welsh
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th
and The Ulster Defence Regiment)
The Parachute Regiment
The Royal Gurkha Rifles
The Queen's Gurkha Engineers
Queen's Gurkha Signals
The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
The Rifles
Special Air Service Regiment
Army Air 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
Intelligence Corps
Army Physical Training Corps
General Service Corps
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Corps of Army Music
The Gibraltar Regiment
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