British Army Order of Precedence 1983

• The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals

• Royal Horse Artillery

• Royal Armoured Corps

        1^st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)

4^th/7^th Royal Dragoon Guards

5^th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

The Queens Own Hussars

The Queens Royal Irish Hussars

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

The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)

13^th/18^th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)

14^th/20^th King’s Hussars

15^th/19^th The King’s Royal Hussars

16^th/5^th The Queen’s Royal Lancers

17^th/21^st 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 (24^th/41^st Foot)

• The King’s Own Scottish Borderers

• The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) *

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

• The Gloucestershire Regiment

• The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29^th/45^th 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 with an * against them were disbanded in 1968 but according to precedent; remain in the Army list for 40 years from that date.