The Volunteer Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Volunteers from 1859 to 1880

The Yeomanry Cavalry and Light Horse Volunteers in 1895 - 1900

The Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War

The Regiments of the Imperial Yeomanry 1903

The Territorial Force Mounted Brigades 1910-14

The Yeomanry Regiments of the Territorial Force (TF) and the Special Reserve in 1914

The Creation of the Territorial Army (TA) from 1920 to 1922

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939

The Recreation of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1947


The Reductions from 1947 and 1961

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In 1947 the TA was resurrected and thirty-three regiments were reconstituted in the Royal Armoured Corps. In 1950 The Worcestershire Hussars were converted from artillery and joined this number.

In 1956 six pairs of regiments were amalgamated. Two groups of three regiments did the same. Four Regiments were converted to infantry. This left twenty Royal Armoured Corps regiments. One yeomanry artillery regiment joined as an independant squadron.

In 1961 there were three amalgamations, but all the partners were either artillery or infantry before, thus the number of RAC regiments stayed at twenty.

In 1967 all regiments were formaly disbanded. New TAVR units were created, many of them perpetuating the titles and traditions of the disbanded units.

1947 1956/57 1961
 
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
 
The Warwickshire Yeomanry } The Queens’s Own Warwickshire and
Worcestershire Yeomanry
300th (Q.O. Worcestershire Y.) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
1950: The Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars
 
The Yorkshire Hussars } The Queen’s Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
The Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons
The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
1951: The East Riding Yeomanry
 
The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
1951: The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
 
The Staffordshire Yeomanry
 
The Shropshire Yeomanry
 
The Ayrshire Yeomanry
 
The Cheshire Yeomanry
 
The Leicestershire Yeomanry } The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry
The Derbyshire Yeomanry
 
The North Somerset Yeomanry } The North Somerset Yeomanry /
44th Royal Tank Regiment
44th/50th Royal Tank Regiment
 
The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry
 
The Lanarkshire Yeomanry } The Queen’s Own Lowland Yeomanry
The Lothians and Border Horse
The Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry
 
The Northumberland Hussars
 
302nd (Pembroke Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery The Pembroke Yeomanry
 
297th (Kent Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery } The Kent and County of London Yeomanry
3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry
 
The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
 
Berkshire Yeomanry part of 299th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery } The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons
2nd County of London Yeomanry The Westminster Dragoons
 
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry } The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry /
Scottish Horse
The Scottish Horse
C (Lovat Scouts) Squadron, The Scottish Horse
1949: 766th Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lovat Scouts)
 
The City of London Yeomanry The City of London Yeomanry,
The Rifle Brigade
} The Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
The Inns of Court Regiment } The Inns of Court Regiment
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry
 
The North Irish Horse
 
40th Royal Tank Regiment } 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment
41st Royal Tank Regiment
 
42nd Royal Tank Regiment 23rd London Regiment
 
43rd Royal Tank Regiment 6th (City) Battalion),
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
 
45th/51st Royal Tank Regiment 7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion,
The West Yorkshire Regiment
 

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1961

The Regiments of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1967

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Territorial Army in 2010

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Army Reserve in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments