title: List of British Army Regiments (2008)
text: # 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
  