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Senior British Military Liaison Officer to Kuwait: Royal Tank Regiment: 31 December 2018 [50] Alastair Buchanan Veitch: UK Defence Attaché to France Head of British Defence Staff in France: Royal Engineers: 31 December 2018 [50] Anthony Peter Finn: Royal Army Medical Corps | 30 June 2019 [51] Alexander J. Smith: Royal Signals: 30 June 2019 [52 ...
The Royal Regiment of Scotland - 3 + 2 battalions [13] [14] The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14] The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14]
This is a list of senior officers of the British Army. See also Commander in Chief of the Forces , Chief of the General Staff , and Chief of the Imperial General Staff . Captains-General of the British Army, 1707–1809
The first armoured regiments - known at the time as "tank battalions" - were formed in the First World War, first in the Machine Gun Corps and later as the Tank Corps.Each battalion had three companies, each of three sections of four tanks, for a combat strength of thirty-six tanks; a further twelve were kept in reserve for training and replacement purposes. [2]
King's Royal Hussars, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Regiment, become an Armoured Cavalry Regiment in 2025) Royal Tank Regiment, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Regiment) [Note 6] Royal Wessex Yeomanry, in Bovington (Army Reserve – Challenger 2)
The Royal Armoured Corps was to be reduced by a total of two regiments, with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers amalgamated with the Queen's Royal Lancers to form a single lancer regiment, the Royal Lancers, and the 1st and 2nd Royal Tank Regiments joined to form a single Royal Tank Regiment.
The British Army, in the modern sense of the standing army under the Crown, was formed following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1661. At this point, the small standing forces included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Troops of Horse Guards and the Royal Regiment of Horse; some of these had been raised in exile and some as part of the New Model Army.
This is a list of career roles available within each corps in the British Army, as a soldier or officer. [1] Roles in italics are only available to serving soldiers, or re-joiners, and are not open to civilians. [2]