List of British Regular Army regiments (1994)

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This is a list of British Regular Army regiments in the aftermath of the defence cuts of the Options for Change defence white paper in 1991.

Cavalry

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

• The Life Guards
• The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
  • at the request of HM The Queen, The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals 'united', rather than amalgamated, so that they could retain their separate regimental identities

Royal Armoured Corps

Heavy Cavalry

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
• The Royal Dragoon Guards
  • formed by the amalgamation of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

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
  • formed by the amalgamation of The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) and 14th/20th King's Hussars
• The Light Dragoons
  • formed by the amalgamation of 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) and 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• The Queen's Royal Lancers
  • formed by the amalgamation of 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and 17th/21st Lancers

The Royal Tank Regiment

• 1st Royal Tank Regiment
  • amalgamated with 4th Royal Tank Regiment without loss of title
• 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
  • amalgamated with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment without loss of title

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

• Grenadier Guards (one battalion)
• Coldstream Guards (one battalion)
• Scots Guards (one battalion)
• Irish Guards (one battalion)
• Welsh Guards (one battalion)

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 battalion)
  • 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)
  • 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles
  • 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
  • 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
  • 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
    • The Brigade of Gurkhas
• The Royal Green Jackets (two battalions)

Special Forces

• Special Air Service

Support Arms and Services

Support Arms

• Royal Regiment of Artillery
• Corps of Royal Engineers
• Royal Corps of Signals

Services

• Royal Army Chaplains Department
• Royal Logistic Corps - formed in 1993 from:
  • Royal Engineers Postal and Courier Service
  • Royal Corps of Transport
  • Royal Army Ordnance Corps
  • Royal Pioneer Corps
  • Army Catering Corps
• Royal Army Medical Corps
• Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Adjutant General's Corps - formed in 1992 from various units including:
  • Army Legal Corps
  • Corps of Royal Military Police
  • Military Provost Staff Corps
  • Royal Army Educational Corps
  • Royal Army Pay Corps
  • Women's Royal Army 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 - formed 1994 to oversee the 29 army bands