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
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
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:
- 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:[note 1]
- 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:
- Mercian Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- Royal Welsh - 2 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
- Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
- Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions [note 2]
- Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions
- The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
Special Forces
The Army Air Corps
Support Arms and Services
Support Arms
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
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