List of British Army regiments (1962)

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This is a list of British Army regiments after the Army restructuring caused by the 1957 Defence White Paper: many regiments were amalgamated between 1958-60. Further cuts and amalgamations took place in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Contents 1 Cavalry 1.1 Household Cavalry 1.2 Royal Armoured Corps 1.2.1 Heavy Cavalry 1.2.2 Light Cavalry 1.2.3 The Royal Tank Regiment 2 Combat Arms 3 Infantry 3.1 Foot Guards 3.2 Line Infantry 4 Services

[edit] Cavalry

[edit] Household Cavalry

• The Life Guards
• Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
  • amalgamated with 1st The Royal Dragoons in 1969 to form The Blues and Royals.

[edit] Royal Armoured Corps

[edit] Heavy Cavalry

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
  • formed by the amalgamation of 1st King's Dragoon Guards and The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
• 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards)
  • amalgamated with The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) in 1971 to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
• 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
• 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

[edit] Light Cavalry

• 1st The Royal Dragoons
  • amalgamated with the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) in 1969 to form The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) in 1969
• The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons)
  • amalgamated with 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) in 1971 to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
• The Queen's Own Hussars
  • formed by the amalgamation of 3rd The King's Own Hussars and 7th Queen's Own Hussars
• The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  • formed by the amalgamation of 4th Queen's Own Hussars and 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
• 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
  • formed by the amalgamation of 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
• 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • amalgamated with 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) in 1969 to form the Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
  • amalgamated with 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) in 1969 to form Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
• 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
• 14th/20th King's Hussars
• 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars
• 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
• 17th/21st Lancers

[edit] The Royal Tank Regiment

• 1st Royal Tank Regiment
• 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
• 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
  • amalgamated with 6th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title
• 4th Royal Tank Regiment
  • amalgamated with 7th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title
• 5th Royal Tank Regiment
  • amalgamated with 8th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title
  • disbanded in 1969

[edit] Combat Arms

• Royal Regiment of Artillery
• Corps of Royal Engineers — Transport and Movement Coastal Service of the RE formed part of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965
• Royal Corps of Signals
• Army Air Corps

[edit] Infantry

The infantry in 1962 was divided into 15 separate brigades for administrative purposes:

• Guards Brigade: Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards.
• Lowland Brigade: The Royal Scots, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and Royal Highland Fusiliers.
• Highland Brigade: The Black Watch, Gordon Highlanders, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Queen's Own Highlanders.
• Home Counties Brigade: The Royal Sussex Regiment, Middlesex Regiment, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment and Queen's Own Buffs.
• Fusilier Brigade: Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) and Lancashire Fusiliers.
• East Anglian Brigade: 1st, 2nd and 3rd East Anglian Regiments
• Forester Brigade: Royal Warwickshire Regiment (until November 1962), Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Sherwoord Foresters.
• Mercian Brigade: Cheshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment.
• Welsh Brigade: Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welch Regiment.
• Wessex Brigade: Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Hampshire Regiment, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment.
• Lancastrian Brigade: The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), King's Own Royal Border Regiment, King's Regiment and Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
• Yorkshire Brigade: The Green Howards, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and York & Lancaster Regiment.
• North Irish Brigade: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Ulster Rifles.
• Light Infantry Brigade: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Durham Light Infantry, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry.
• Green Jackets Brigade: 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd), 2nd Green Jackets (King's Royal Rifle Corps), 3rd Green Jackets (Rifle Brigade).

In 1968 the administrative brigades were merged to form 6 administrative divisions. These were:

• Guards Division — formerly the Brigade of Guards.
• Scottish Division — formed by the amalgamation of the Highland and Lowland Brigades.
• King's Division — formed by the amalgamation of the Lancastrian, North Irish, and Yorkshire Brigades.
• Prince of Wales's Division — formed by the amalgamation of the Mercian, Welsh, and Wessex Brigades.
• Queen's Division — formed by the amalgamation of the East Anglian, Fusilier and Home Counties Brigades.
• Light Division — formed by the amalgamation of the Light Infantry and Green Jackets Brigades.

[edit] Foot Guards

• Grenadier Guards
• Coldstream Guards
• Scots Guards
• Irish Guards
• Welsh Guards

[edit] Line Infantry

• The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
• The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment — formed part of The Queen's Regiment in 1966
  • The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
  • The East Surrey Regiment
• The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment — formed part of The Queen's Regiment in 1966
  • The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
  • The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
• The King's Own Royal Border Regiment
  • The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
  • The Border Regiment
• The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers — formed part of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968
• The Royal Warwickshire Regiment — became the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers in 1963; formed part of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968
• The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) — formed part of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968
• The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool)
  • The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
  • The Manchester Regiment
• 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) — formed part of the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964
  • The Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • The Suffolk Regiment
• 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Lincoln and Northamptonshire) — formed part of the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964
  • The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
  • The Northamptonshire Regiment
• The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
  • The Devonshire Regiment
  • The Dorset Regiment
• The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry — formed part of The Light Infantry in 1968
  • The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
  • The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
  • The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wale's Own)
  • The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
• 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) — formed part of the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964
  • The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
  • The Essex Regiment
• The Royal Leicestershire Regiment — formed part of the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964
• The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
• The Lancashire Fusiliers — formed part of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968
• The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
  • The Royal Scots Fusiliers
  • The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
• The Cheshire Regiment
• The Royal Welch Fusiliers
• The South Wales Borderers — formed part of the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969
• The King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) — opted for disbandment in 1968 rather than amalgamation
• The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) — formed part of The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) in 1968
• The Gloucestershire Regiment
• The Worcestershire Regiment — formed part of The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (29th/45th Foot) in 1970
• The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) — formed part of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1970
  • The East Lancashire Regiment
  • The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
• The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• The Royal Sussex Regiment — formed part of The Queen's Regiment in 1966
• The Royal Hampshire Regiment
• The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
  • The South Staffordshire Regiment
  • The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
• The Welch Regiment — formed part of the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969
• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
• 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) — formed part of the Royal Green Jackets in 1966
• The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) — formed part of The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters (29th/45th Foot) in 1970
• The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) — formed part of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1970
• The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
  • The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
  • The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
• The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry — formed part of The Light Infantry in 1968
• The King's Shropshire Light Infantry — formed part of The Light Infantry in 1968
• The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) — formed part of The Queen's Regiment in 1966
• 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps formed part of the Royal Green Jackets in 1966
• The York and Lancaster Regiment — opted for disbandment in 1968 rather than amalgamation
• The Durham Light Infantry — formed part of The Light Infantry in 1968
• The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)
  • Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
  • The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
• The Gordon Highlanders
• The Royal Ulster Rifles — formed part of The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) in 1968
• The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) — formed part of The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) in 1968
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
• The Parachute Regiment
• 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
• 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade formed part of the Royal Green Jackets in 1966
• 22nd Special Air Service Regiment

• Royal Malta Artillery

[edit] Services

• Royal Army Chaplains' Department
• Royal Army Service Corps — formed part of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965
• Royal Army Medical Corps
• Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Corps of Royal Military Police
• Royal Army Pay Corps
• Royal Army Veterinary Corps
• Small Arms School Corps
• Military Provost Staff Corps
• Royal Army Educational Corps
• Royal Army Dental Corps
• Royal Pioneer Corps
• Intelligence Corps
• Army Physical Training Corps
• Army Catering Corps
• General Service Corps
• Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
• Women's Royal Army Corps