List of British Army regiments (1994)

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

Cavalry

• Household Cavalry Regiment
  • The Life Guards (retained regimental identity)
  • The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (retained regimental identity)

• Royal Armoured Corps
  • 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
  • The Royal Dragoon Guards
    • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
    • 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
  • The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
    • The Queen's Own Hussars
    • The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
  • The King's Royal Hussars
    • The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
    • 14th/20th King's Hussars
  • The Light Dragoons
    • 13th/18th Royal Hussars Queen Mary's Own)
    • 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
  • The Queen's Royal Lancers
    • 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
    • 17th/21st Lancers
  • Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR and 2 RTR)

Infantry

The infantry in 1994 was divided into six divisions for administrative purposes:

• Guards 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).
• 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.
• Queen's Division: Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Royal Anglian Regiment.
• Prince of Wales's Division: Cheshire Regiment, Royal Welch 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 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 Gurka 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)
• 22 SAS regiment

• The Gibraltar Regiment

Support Arms and Services

• Support Arms
  • Royal Regiment of Artillery
  • Corps of Royal Engineers
  • Royal Corps of Signals
  • Army Air Corps

• Services
  • Royal Army Chaplains Department
  • Royal Logistic Corps
    • Royal Corps of Transport
    • Royal Army Ordnance Corps
    • Royal Pioneer Corps
    • Army Catering Corps
    • Postal Courier Service
  • Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • Adjutant General's Corps
    • Royal Army Pay Corps
    • Women's Royal Army Corps
    • Corps of Royal Military Police
    • Royal Army Educational Corps
    • Military Provost Staff 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