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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.
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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)
- 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 Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (one battalion)
- 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 Royal Green Jackets (two battalions)
- 22 SAS regiment
Support Arms and Services
- Support Arms
- 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
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