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BRITISH RESERVE FORCES TERRITORIAL ARMY STRENGTH AND ORDER OF BATTLE STRENGTH OF THE

TERRITORIAL ARMY (EARLY 2009)

ARMOUR

4 Regiments

ROYAL ARTILLERY 7 Regiments

ROYAL ENGINEERS 5 Regiments

INFANTRY

14 Battalions

SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

2 Regiments

SIGNALS 11 Regiments

EQUIPMENT SUPPORT

4 Battalions

LOGISTICS 15 Regiments

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S CORPS 2 Regiments (Royal Military Police)

INTELLIGENCE CORPS 2 Battalions

AVIATION 2 Regiments

MEDICAL 15 Units(1)


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TOTAL OF 83 MAJOR UNITS

Note:

(1) Total includes 12 x independent field hospitals, 2 x General Support Medical Regiments and 1 x

Casualty Evacuation Regiment.

TERRITORIAL ARMY BANDS

OFFICER TRAINING CORPS UNITS

TA ORDER OF BATTLE

ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS

Royal Yeomanry

RHQ - Croydon

Squadrons: Swindon; Leicester; Croydon; Nottingham; Fulham; Clifton St, City (Band).

Royal Wessex Yeomanry

RHQ Wareham

Squadrons: Wareham; Salisbury; Cirencester; Barnstable/Paignton.


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Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

RHQ Telford

Squadrons: Dudley; Telford/Hereford; Chester; Wigan.

Queens Own Yeomanry

RHQ Newcastle

Squadrons: York/Hull; Ayr/Motherwell; Belfast; Cupar/Forfar; Newcastle/Sunderland.

Note: Where locations are separated by a / this denotes detachments of the same company, battery or

squadron.

ROYAL ARTILLERY

Honourable Artillery Company

RHQ London

Squadrons: 3 x Sqns, Band all in London.

100 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ Luton

Batteries: Luton; Bristol; Nottingham.


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101 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ Newcastle

Battalions: Blyth; Newcastle; South Shields; Leeds.

103 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ St Helens

Batteries: Liverpool; Manchester; Bolton; Bolton (Band).

104 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ Newport

Batteries: Newport; Worcester.

105 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ Edinburgh

Batteries: Newtownards; Edinburgh; Arbroath.

106 Regiment RA (V)

RHQ London

Batteries: Wolverhampton; London; Southampton.


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ROYAL ENGINEERS

Royal Monmouthshire RE (Militia)

RHQ Monmouth

Squadrons: Cwmbran/Bristol; Gorseinon/Cardiff/ Swansea; Walsall/Oldbury; Jersey.

71 Regiment RE (V)

RHQ Leuchars

Squadrons: Paisley/Barnsford Bridge; Cumbernauld; Kinloss; Kirkwall.

72 Regiment RE (V)

RHQ Gateshead

Squadrons: Sheffield/Bradford; Newcastle; Wakefield/Hull/Pontefract

73 Regiment RE (V)

RHQ Nottingham

Squadrons: Chilwell/Mansfield; Derby/Chesterfield; Northampton/Leicester; Nottingham (Band).

75 Regiment RE (V)

RHQ - Warrington

Squadrons: Birkenhead/Widnes; Stoke on Trent/Cannock; Failsworth/ Ashton Under Lyne.

101 Regiment (EOD) (V)

RHQ Ilford

Squadrons: Holloway/White City; Catford/Rochester; Tunbridge Wells/ Brighton/ Reigate.


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131 Independent Commando Squadron (V)

HQ London

Units: Birmingham; Bath: Plymouth.

135 Independent Squadron (V)

HQ Ewell

Units: Hermitage; Southampton.

412 Amphibious Engineer Troop (V)

Hameln.

170 Infrastructure Support Engineer Group (V)

HQ Chilwell

65 Works Group (V)

HQ Chilwell

Units: 10 x Specialist Work Groups all at Chilwell

591 Independent Field Squadron

HQ Bangor/Antrim


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ROYAL SIGNALS

21 Signal Regiment (Air Support)

RHQ Bath

31 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ London

Squadrons: Coulsdon/Kingston on Thames; Eastbourne/Brighton; Banbury/Oxford.


RHQ Glasgow

Squadrons: Aberdeen/Elgin; East Kilbride; Edinburgh.


RHQ Liverpool

Squadrons: Manchester; Liverpool; Runcorn.


RHQ Middlesborough

Squadrons: Leeds/Hull; Darlington/Newcastle; Hartlepool/Middlesborough.


RHQ Coventry


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Squadrons: Birmingham; Newcastle-Under-Lyme; Rugby; Shrewsbury.


RHQ Grays

Squadrons: Cambridge; Colchester/Ipswich/Southend; Cambridge/Norwich;

Cambridge/Aylesbury/Bedford.


RHQ Redditch

Squadrons: Cardiff/Brecon; Stratford-Upon-Avon/Stourbridge; Coventry/Tennal Grange.


RHQ Sheffield

Squadrons: Derby; Sheffield/Nottingham; Blackburn/Manchester.


RHQ Bristol

Squadrons: Bristol/Gloucester; Windsor/Reading/Chertsey.


RHQ Belfast

Squadrons: Belfast; Limavady; Bangor.


RHQ Bexleyheath

Squadrons: Uxbridge; London/Whipps Cross; Chelmsford/Harlow.


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1 (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (Special Communications) (V)

Milton Keynes

2 Signal Squadron (V)

Dundee.

63 Signal Squadron (SAS) (V)

HQ Thorney Island

Units: London; Birmingham; Southampton; Poole; Hereford.

81 Signal Squadron (V)

Corsham

INFANTRY

52nd Lowland, 6th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Bn HQ Glasgow

Companies: Edinburgh/Galashiels/Bathgate; Ayr/Dumfries; Glasgow/Motherwell; Edinburgh (Band).

51st Highland, 7th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland


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Bn HQ Perth

Companies: Dundee/Kirkcaldy/Stirling; Aberdeen/Peterhead/Keith/Lerwick; Inverness/Stornoway/Wick;

Dumbarton/Dunoon; Perth (Band).

3rd Bn The Princess of Waless Royal Regiment (Queens and Royal Hampshires)

Bn HQ Canterbury

Companies: Farnham/Camberley; Brighton/Worthing; Dover/Rochester; Portsmouth; Canterbury

(Band).

5th Bn The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Bn HQ Durham

Companies: Washington/Bishop Auckland/Doncaster; Newcastle/Tynemouth; Ashington/Alnwick;

Newcastle (Band).

3rd Bn The Royal Anglian Regiment

Bn HQ Bury St Edmunds

Companies: Norwich/Lowestoft; Lincoln; Leicester/Northampton; Chelmsford/Hertford; Peterborough(Band).

4th Bn The Duke of Lancasters Regiment (Kings, Lancashire and Border)

Bn HQ Preston

Companies: Liverpool; Blackburn; Workington/Carlisle/Barrow; Manchester/Bury; Liverpool (Band).

4th Bn The Yorkshire Regiment

Bn HQ York

Companies: York/Scarborough; Hull/Leeds/Beverley; Middlesborough/Northallerton;

Huddersfield/Keighley; Barnsley/Sheffield; York (Band).


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4th Bn The Mercian Regiment

Bn HQ Wolverhampton

Companies: Warrington/Stockport; Crewe/Stoke; Mansfield; Wolverhampton/Kidderminster/Burton-on-

Trent; Birmingham; Shrewsbury; Wolverhampton (Band).

3rd Bn The Royal Welsh

Bn HQ Cardiff

Companies: Wrexham/Queensferry; Swansea/Aberystwyth; Pontypridd/Cardiff; Colwyn Bay/Caernarfon;

Newport (Band).

6th Bn The Rifles

Bn HQ Exeter

Companies: Gloucester/Bristol; Taunton/Exeter; Dorchester/Poole; Bodmin/Plymouth; Exeter (Band).

7th Bn The Rifles

Bn HQ Reading

Companies: Oxford; Reading; Milton Keynes; London; Oxford (Band).

4th Bn The Parachute Regiment

Bn HQ Pudsey

Companies: White City/Croydon; Pudsey/St Helens/Hebburn; Glasgow/Edinburgh.

The Royal Irish Rangers

Bn HQ Portadown

Companies: Newtonards; Newtonabbey/Ballymena; Armagh/Enniskillen; Lisburn (Band).


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The London Regiment

Bn HQ Battersea

Companies: Westminster/Catford; Edgware/Hornsey; Balham; Camberwell.

ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES

201 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Squadrons: Newton Aycliffe; Stockton-on-Tees; Carlisle.


RHQ - Birmingham

Squadrons: Stoke on Trent; Oxford; Shrewsbury.


RHQ Cardiff

Squadrons: Swansea; Aberystwyth/Crickhowell; Llandudno.


RHQ Belfast


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Squadrons: Ballymena; Newtownards; Armagh.


RHQ Glasgow

Squadrons: Glasgow; Aberdeen; Dundee; Edinburgh.


RHQ Manchester

Squadrons: Stockport/Ashton Under Lyne; Blackburn; Bury.


RHQ - Liverpool

Squadrons: Ellesmere Port; Blackpool/Lancaster.


RHQ Sheffield

Squadrons: Leeds; Beeston/Lincoln; York/Bradford.


RHQ Bath

Squadrons: Exeter; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Poole.


RHQ London

Squadrons: Walworth; Kensington; Kingston; Bow.


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York.

225 Divisional General Support Medical Regiment (V)

RHQ Dundee

Squadrons: Sunderland; Glenrothes; Dundee.


RHQ Belfast

Squadrons: Londonderry; Belfast.


RHQ Cherry Hinton

Squadrons: Norwich; Hitchin; Colchester.

144 Parachute Medical Squadron

HQ London/Hornsey

Units: Glasgow; Nottingham; Cardiff.

335 Medical Evacuation Regiment (V)

RHQ York.

4 General Support Medical Regiment

RHQ Maidstone


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Squadrons: Maidstone; Leicester/Derby.

5 General Support Medical Regiment

RHQ Hull

Squadrons: Hull/Grimsby/Castleford; Chorley.

ROYAL LOGISTIC CORPS

150 (Yorshire) Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ Hull

Squadrons: Hull; Leeds; Doncaster.

151 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ Croydon

Squadrons: Brentwood/Ilford; Sutton/Maidstone; Barnet/Ilford; Southall/Clapham.


RHQ Belfast

Squadrons: Londonderry/Coleraine; Belfast.



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RHQ Plymouth

Squadrons: Plymouth; Truro; Poole/Dorchester.


RHQ Liverpool

Squadrons: Liverpool; Birkenhead; Manchester; Bootle.


RHQ Cardiff

Squadrons: Cardiff; Swansea; Carmarthen/Haverford West.


RHQ Peterborough

Squadrons: Peterborough; Kempston; Ipswich; Loughborough.

159 Support Regiment (V)

RHQ Stoke

Squadrons: Telford; Glasgow; Tynemouth; West Bromwich/Stoke


RHQ Grantham

Squadrons: 4 x Sqn all at Grantham

162 Movement Control Regiment (V)

RHQ Grantham


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Squadrons: Swindon; 4 x Sqn at Grantham.

165 Port Regiment (V)

RHQ Grantham

Squadrons: Southampton/Isle of Wight; Grantham.

166 Support Regiment (V)

RHQ Grantham

Squadrons: 5 x Sqns all at Grantham.

168 Pioneer Regiment

RHQ Grantham

Squadrons: Grantham; Cramlington/Berwick/Hexham; Coulby Newham/Washington/Hartlepool.

17 Port & Maritime Regiment

Bicester

88 Postal & Courier Regiment (V)

RHQ Grantham


Catering Support Regiment

RHQ Grantham



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Scottish Transport Regiment

RHQ Dunfermline

Squadrons: Dunfermline; Glasgow; Edinburgh; Irvine

ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

101 Battalion REME (V)

Bn HQ Wrexham

Companies: Prestatyn; Coventry; Manchester; Grangemouth.


Bn HQ Newton Aycliffe

Companies: Newton Aycliffe; Rotherham; Scunthorpe; Newcastle upon Tyne.


Bn HQ Crawley

Companies: Northampton/Corby/Leicester; Portsmouth; Ashford; Redhill.


Bn HQ Bordon

Company: Bordon.


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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S CORPS

4 Regiment, Royal Military Police

RHQ Aldershot

Companies: West Bromwich/Manchester; Brixton/Southampton.

5 Regiment, Royal Military Police

RHQ Edinburgh

Companies: Livingston/Lisburn; Stockton-on-Tees/Newcastle Upon Tyne.

INTELLIGENCE CORPS

3 Military Intelligence Battalion

BHQ London

Companies: London; Portsmouth.

5 Military Intelligence Battalion (V)


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BHQ London

Companies: London; Edinburgh/Newton Abbey; York/Gateshead; Bristol/Cardiff/Exeter;

Birmingham/Chorley/Nottingham.

SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

21 and 23 Regiments SAS

ARMY AIR CORPS

7 Regiment AAC (V)

RHQ Netheravon

Squadrons: 2 x Sqns Netheravon.

6 Regiment AAC (V)

RHQ Bury St Edmunds

Squadrons: Bury St Edmunds/Swaffham; Dishforth.


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Note: Where locations are separated by a / this denotes detachments of the same company, battery or

squadron.

TERRITORIAL ARMY BANDS

Honourable Artillery Company Band

Lancashire Artillery Band

Royal Scots Territorial Band (East Lowlands)

51st Highland Volunteer Band

Princess of Waless Royal Regiment Territorial Army Band

Royal Anglian Territorial Army Band

North West Infantry Band (Kings)

Devonshire and Dorset Regimental Band (Volunteers)

Welsh Territorial Army Band

Staffordshire Volunteer Band

Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire Band (Territorial Army)

Northumbria Burma Band (Territorial Army)

150 (Northumbria) Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers) Band

North Irish Territorial Band


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OFFICER TRAINING CORPS UNITS

Aberdeen University Officer Training Corps

Birmingham University Officer Training Corps

Bristol University Officer Training Corps

Cambridge University Officer Training Corps

East Midlands University Officer Training Corps

City of Edinburgh University Officer Training Corps

Exeter University Officer Training Corps

Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities Officer Training Corps

Leeds University Officer Training Corps

Liverpool University Officer Training Corps

London University Officer Training Corps

Manchester and Salford University Officer Training Corps

Northumbrian University Officer Training Corps

Oxford University Officer Training Corps

Queens University Officer Training Corps

Sheffield University Officer Training Corps

Southampton University Officer Training Corps

Tayforth University Officer Training Corps

University of Wales Officer Training Corps

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