list of british regiments names

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#1

Sandhurst Rifles!
South Shields Kanopflers
British Regiments
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1st King’s Dragoon Guards
1st Reconnaissance Regiment
1st The Royal Dragoons
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)
11th (East Africa) Reconnaissance Regiment
11 (City of London Yeomanry) LAA Regt.
11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own)
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)
13th/18th Royal Hussars
145 (Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
147th FA Regiment
13/18 Hussars
14th/20th King’s Hussars
15th Reconnaissance Regiment
15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars
155 Field Regt. (Lanarkshire Yeomanry)
16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers
17th/21st Lancers
18th Reconnaissance Regiment
101 (Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry) Field Regt.
102 Field Regt. (Pembroke and Cardiganshire)
104 (Essex Yeomanry) Regt., Royal Horse Artillery
105 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
106 Regt. Royal Horse Artillery (Lancashire Hussars)
107 Regt. Royal Horse Artillery (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry)
152nd Brigade, 51st Highland Division
2nd Reconnaissance Regiment
22nd Dragoons
23rd Hussars
24th Lancers
25th Dragoons
26th Hussars
27th Lancers
3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards)
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
3rd The King’s Own Hussars
3rd Reconnaissance Regiment
38th Reconnaissance Regiment
304th Anti Tank Battery
324 (Glamorgan Yeomanry) Bty, 81 (Welsh) Field Regt
4th Queen’s Own Hussars
4th Reconnaissance Regiment
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
40th (The King’s) Bn.
41st (Oldham) Bn.
42nd (7th (23rd London) Bn) East Surrey Regt Bn.
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment
43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment
44th Armored Regiment, 4th Armored Brigade
44th Reconnaissance Regiment
45th (Leeds Rifles) Bn.
45th Reconnaissance Regiment
46th Reconnaissance Regiment
48th Reconnaissance Regiment
49th Reconnaissance Regiment
5th Reconnaissance Regiment
5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
50th Reconnaissance Regiment
51 Field Regt. (Westmorland and Cumberland)
51st Reconnaissance Regiment
52nd Reconnaissance Regiment
53rd Reconnaissance Regiment
53 (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Atk Regt.
54th Reconnaissance Regiment
55 Atk Regt. (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry)
55 Field Regt. (Wessex)
56th Reconnaissance Regiment
59th Reconnaissance Regiment
502nd Light AA Battery
6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment
6th Field Artillery Regiment.
61 (Carnarvon and Denbigh Yeomanry) Medium Regt.
61st Reconnaissance Regiment
7th Queen’s Own Hussars
72 (Hampshire) AA Regt.
74th Anti Tank Battery
8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars
80th (Holding and Training) Reconnaissance Regiment
81st (West Africa) Reconnaissance Regiment
82nd (West Africa) Reconnaissance Regiment
86 Field Regt. (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
94 (Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regt.
96 (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Regt.
97 Field Regt. (Kent Yeomanry)
98 Field Regt. (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry)
99 (Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
African Pioneer Corps
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) The
Army Air Corps
Army Catering Corps
Army Dental Corps
Army Educational Corps
Army Physical Training Corps
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick’s Own) The
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment The
Berkshire Regiment, (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) The Royal
Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) The
Border Regiment The
Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) The
Cambridgeshire Regt The
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) The
Cheshire Regiment The
Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester’s) The
Coldstream Guards
Corps of Military Police
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Derbyshire Yeomanry The
Devonshire Regiment The
Dorset Regiment, The
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry The
Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry The
Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) The
Durham Light Infantry The
East Lancashire Regiment The
East Riding Yeomanry The
East Surrey Regiment The
East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York’s Own) The
Essex Regiment The
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry The
General Service Corps
Gloucestershire Regiment The
GHQ Liaison Regiment “Phantom”
Gordon Highlanders The
Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment) The
Grenadier Guards
Hampshire Regiment The
Hertfordshire Regt. The
Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) The
Highland Regiment The
Home Guard The
Inns of Court Regiment The
Intelligence Corps
Irish Guards
King’s Own Malta Regiment
King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) The
King’s Own Scottish Borderers The
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The
King’s Regiment (Liverpool) The
King’s Royal Rifle Corps The
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry The
Lancashire Fusiliers The
Leicestershire Regiment, The Royal
Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert’s Own) The
Life Guards The
Lincolnshire Regiment The
Liverpool Welsh, The
London Irish Rifles
London Scottish The
Long Range Desert Group
Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry The
Lovat Scouts The
Lowland Regiment The
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) The
Manchester Regiment The
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) The
Military Provost Staff Corps
Mobile Divisional Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry)
Monmouthshire Regt. The
North Irish Horse
North Somerset Yeomanry The
North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s) The
Northamptonshire Regiment The
Northamptonshire Yeomanry The
Northumberland Hussars The
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The
Pioneer Corps
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service
Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) The
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, The
Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment The
Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons The
Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) The
Raiding Support Regiment
Reconnaissance Corps
Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) The
Royal Armoured Corps
Royal Army Chaplain’s Department
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Army Pay Corps
Royal Army Service Corps
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Royal Artillery
Royal Corps of Signals
Royal Engineers
Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, REME
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) The
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars The
Royal Horse Artillery
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The
Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) The
Royal Norfolk Regiment The
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers The
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The
Royal Scots Fusiliers The
Royal Scots Greys The
Royal Sussex Regiment The
Royal Tank Corps
Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Ulster Rifles The
Royal Warwickshire Regiment The
Royal Welch Fusiliers, The
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales’s Own) The
Scots Guards
Scottish Horse (Scouts) The
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) The
Shropshire Yeomanry (Dragoons) The
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert’s) The
South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) The
South Staffordshire Regiment The
South Wales Borderers The
Special Air Service Regiment
Special Service Battalions - The Commandos
Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment) The
Suffolk Regiment The
The Cyprus Regiment
The Glider Pilot Regiment
The Palestine Regiment
The Parachute Regiment
Tower Hamlets Rifles the are now: Tower Hamlets Mac 10’s init
Tyneside Scottish The
Warwickshire Yeomanry The
Welch Regiment The
Welsh Guards
West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Own) The
Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) The
Worcestershire Regiment The
York and Lancaster Regiment The
Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own) The

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#2

Alot of those have been disbanded and amalgamated in the last 60 years (some even resurrected), they are only WW2 but I believe it will be comprehensive, bearing in mind its source so very little to add to it.

Good post

#3

Ok, pedant mode on :slight_smile:
Actually, wind-up aside, the Artist’s Rifles didn’t exist during WW2.
In 1939 the Artist’s Rifles became 163 Officer Cadet Training Unit, and the 56th Reconnaisance Regt turned down the Artist’s Rifles title in '42.
The Artist’s Rifles were reconstituted as a TA unit in 1947, before becoming 21st SAS six months later.

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-london/vinf/L28ar.htm

#4

Ok, pedant mode on :slight_smile:
Actually, wind-up aside, the Artist’s Rifles didn’t exist during WW2.
In 1939 the Artist’s Rifles became 163 Officer Cadet Training Unit, and the 56th Reconnaisance Regt turned down the Artist’s Rifles title in '42.
The Artist’s Rifles were reconstituted as a TA unit in 1947, before becoming 21st SAS six months later.

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-london/vinf/L28ar.htm[/quote]
:cry: , done,thank you

#5

What exactly is the status of an OTC? They look like regiments to me (apart from the lack of manpower)
Commanded by a Colonel, has a WO1(RSM), divided into companies (or wings, depending) each commanded by a Major supported by a WO2(CSM) or equivalent.

Anyhoo, just wanted to boast that I have been entitled to wear a maroon stable belt in the past, although with a different buckle to the one you might expect.

#6

OTCs actually are proper formed regiments and exist under the reserve order of battle, we have our own stable belt and distinctive cap badges. My unit even fought as a formed unit in the Boer war where it was wiped out. Although we are only cat B we can be called out for national emergencies on home soil (though whoever isssued such an order would have to be barking mad) like fire strikes, flood defence etc… and more recently our CO told us that had we been in our unit on the day of the bombings he would have sent us out there to help, nice… :shock:

As for manning we’re not that far off most TA inf regiments, my unit is 500+ but most are 2-400

#7

You also forgot the Local Defence Volunteers, technicaly a fighting regiment (later refered to as the Home Guard aka dads army)

and the 17th Casteroil Dragoons.

And all of the Gurkha regiments.

#8

Also for your reference

The Cheshire Regiment is not it’s name, and they would be jolly upset if you called them that.

There actual title is

The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot. They refer to themselves as the 22nds not the Cheshires.

It is a source of great pride for them that they are one of only a handful of regiments that have never amalgamated in their entire history.

#9

Until now. :lol:

#10

Yes, i believe there is a little bit of hurt in their ranks.

#11

Gurkhas were all Indian Army at the time.

#12

Good point, but they were on our orbat, so the indian army should be up there too.