List of British Army regiments (1962)

This is a list of British Regular 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.

Cavalry

Household Cavalry

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

Royal Armoured Corps

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

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)
*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

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

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

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.

Foot Guards

*Grenadier Guards
*Coldstream Guards
*Scots Guards
*Irish Guards
*Welsh Guards

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 Wales'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

ervices

*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