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R. Raiding Support Regiment; Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 108 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps; 109th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps; 110th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
British Regiments 1914–18. London: Samson Books Limited. ISBN 0-906304-03-2. Whittacker, L B (1990). Stand Down. Orders of battle for the units of the Home Guard of the United Kingdom, November 1944. Newport: Ray Westlake Military Books. ISBN 1871167140
Army Air Corps - 7 + 1 regiments [22] Royal Regiment of Artillery - 15 + 6 regiments [23] [24] Corps of Royal Engineers - 15 + 7 regiments [25] Royal Corps of Signals - 13 + 4 regiments [26] Intelligence Corps - 3 + 4 battalions [27] Honourable Artillery Company - 0 + 1 Regiment [28] Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) - 0 + 1 ...
Regimental flag of the SCOTS. The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.It consists of three regular (formerly five) and two reserve battalions, plus an incremental company, each formerly an individual regiment (with the exception of the former first battalion (now disbanded and reformed into the 1st Bn ...
Scottish bagpipes have been adopted in a number of countries, largely in imitation of the pipers of Highland regiments which served throughout the British Empire. Highland regiments were raised in a number of Commonwealth armies, often adopting formal honorary affiliations with Scottish regiments of the British Army.
In 1937, the Mobile Division had two cavalry brigades each with three light tank regiments (note: a British cavalry or armoured 'regiment' is the equivalent of a US battalion in size), a tank brigade with three medium tank regiments, and a "Pivot Group" (later called the "Support Group") containing two motorised infantry battalions and two ...
This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War.. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, [1] together with the Royal Tank Regiment. [2]
The order comes from the start of the regiment's service under the Crown, up to 1881 and the "Cardwell Reforms", when the use of numbers was abolished in favour of linking with and using county names. The regiments of the Household Division are always listed first, as they are the most senior, followed by the line regiments. In today's army ...