British Army Order of Precedence 1983

  • The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals

  • Royal Horse Artillery

  • Royal Armoured Corps

          1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards

          The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)

          4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

          5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

          The Queens Own Hussars

          The Queens Royal Irish Hussars

          9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s)

          The 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

         Royal Tank Regiment

  • Royal Regiment of Artillery

  • Corps of Royal Engineers

  • Royal Corps of Signals

  • Grenadier Guards

  • Coldstream Guards

  • Scots Guards

  • Irish Guards

  • Welsh Guards

  • The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

  • The Queen’s Regiment

  • The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment

  • The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

  • The King’s Regiment

  • The Royal Anglian Regiment

  • The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

  • The Light Infantry

  • The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire

  • The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s own Yorkshire Regiment)

  • The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret’s Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)

  • The Cheshire Regiment

  • The Royal Welch Fusiliers

  • The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)

  • The King’s Own Scottish Borderers

  • (The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles))

  • The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th)

  • The Gloucestershire Regiment

  • The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)

  • The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment

  • The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)

  • The Royal Hampshire Regiment

  • The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)

  • The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

  • The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)

  • (The York and Lancaster Regiment)

  • Queen’s own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons)

  • The Gordon Highlanders

  • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s)

  • The Parachute Regiment

  • The Brigade of Gurkhas

  • The Royal Green Jackets

  • Special Air Service Regiment

  • Army Air Corps

  • Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

  • Royal Corps of Transport

  • Royal Army Ordnance Corps

  • Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

  • Corps of Royal Military Police

  • Royal Army Pay Corps

  • Royal Army Veterinary 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

  • Army Legal Corps

  • Queens Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps

  • Women’s Royal Army Corps

Regiments shown in parentheses were disbanded in 1968 but according to precedent; remain in the Army list for 40 years from that date.

 

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