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This is a list of
British Regular Army regiments after the Army restructuring caused by the
1957 Defence White Paper . The paper set out the reduction in size of the Army to 165,000 following the end of
National Service and the change to an entirely voluntary army; units were to be disbanded or
amalgamated over two phases, to be completed in 1959 and 1962.
[1]
Further cuts and amalgamations followed in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Cavalry
Household Cavalry
Royal Armoured Corps
Heavy Cavalry
Light cavalry
The Royal Tank Regiment
Combat Arms
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, Sherwood Foresters.
Mercian Brigade : Cheshire Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, Staffordshire Regiment.
Welsh Brigade : Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welsh 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).
Line Infantry and Rifles
Services
Notes
^
a
b The
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) and
1st The Royal Dragoons amalgamated in 1969 to form the
Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
^ Formed by the amalgamation of
1st King's Dragoon Guards and
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) in 1959
[2]
^
a
b The
3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) and
The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) amalgamated in 1971 to form the
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
[3]
^ Formed by the amalgamation of
3rd The King's Own Hussars and
7th Queen's Own Hussars in 1958
^ Formed by the amalgamation of
4th Queen's Own Hussars and
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958
^ formed by the amalgamation of
9th Queen's Royal Lancers and
12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) in 1960
^
a
b The
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) and
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) amalgamated in 1969 to form the
Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own)
^ The
6th Royal Tank Regiment amalgamated with 3RTR in 1958
[4]
^ The
7th Royal Tank Regiment amalgamated with 4RTR in 1958
^ The
8th Royal Tank Regiment amalgamated with 5RTR in 1958
^ The Transport and Movement Coastal Service of the RE formed part of the
Royal Corps of Transport in 1965
^
a
b
c
d The
Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment ,
Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment ,
Royal Sussex Regiment and
Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) were amalgamated into the
Queen's Regiment in 1966
[5]
^
a
b
c
d The
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers ,
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers ,
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and
Lancashire Fusiliers were amalgamated into the
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968.
^ Renamed Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers in 1963
^
a
b
c
d
1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk) ,
2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Lincoln and Northamptonshire) ,
3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) and
Royal Leicestershire Regiment were amalgamated into the
Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964
[7]
^
a
b
c
d The
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry ,
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ,
King's Shropshire Light Infantry and
Durham Light Infantry were amalgamated into
The Light Infantry in 1968
^
a
b The
South Wales Borderers and
Welch Regiment were amalgamated into the
Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969
^
a
b The
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and the
York and Lancaster Regiment were disbanded in 1968
^
a
b
c The
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ,
Royal Ulster Rifles and
Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) were amalgamated into the
Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) in 1968
^
a
b The
Worcestershire Regiment and the
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) were amalgamated into the
Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) in 1970
^
a
b The
Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) and the
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) were amalgamated into the
Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1970
^
a
b
c
1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) ,
2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps and
3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade were amalgamated into the
Royal Green Jackets in 1966
^ Formed part of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965
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