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This is a list of and early 1970s .


CAVALRY


Household Cavalry



Royal Armoured Corps


Heavy Cavalry



Light Cavalry



The Royal Tank Regiment



COMBAT ARMS



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.



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Line Infantry




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