| INFANTRY
BATTALIONS (LISTED BY ROLE) |
| Armoured
Infantry (6) |
Army 2020
Role |
Army 2020
Personnel |
Army 2020
Location |
| 1st Bn The
Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Bulford |
| 1st Bn The Royal
Regiment of Fusiliers |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Tidworth |
| 1st Bn The
Yorkshire Regiment |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Tidworth |
| 1st Bn The Royal
Welsh |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Tidworth |
| 1st Bn The Mercian
Regiment |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Bulford |
| 5th Bn The Rifles |
Armoured Infantry |
729 |
Tidworth |
| |
|
|
|
| NB: This table
includes personnel attached from other arms. |
| Heavy
Protected Mobility (3) |
Army 2020
Role |
Army 2020
Personnel |
Army 2020
Location |
| 1st Bn Scots Guards |
Heavy Protected
Mobility |
709 |
Aldershot |
| 4th Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland
|
Heavy Protected
Mobility |
709 |
Catterick |
| 4th Bn The Rifles |
Heavy Protected
Mobility |
709 |
Aldershot |
| |
|
|
|
| NB: This table
includes personnel attached from other arms. |
| Light
Protected Mobility (6) |
Army 2020
Role |
Army 2020
Personnel |
Army 2020
Location |
| 1st Bn Welsh Guards |
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Pirbright |
| 3rd Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland
|
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Fort George |
| 2nd Bn The
Yorkshire Regiment |
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Catterick |
| 1st Bn The Royal
Irish Regiment |
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Tern Hill |
| 2nd Bn The Royal
Anglian Regiment |
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Cottesmore |
| 3rd Bn The Rifles |
Light Protected
Mobility |
581 |
Edinburgh |
| |
|
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|
| NB: This table
includes personnel attached from other arms. |
| Infantry-
Light Role (12) |
Army 2020
Role |
Army 2020
Personnel |
Army 2020
Location |
| 1st Bn Grenadier
Guards |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Aldershot |
| 1st Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland
|
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Belfast |
| 2nd Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland
|
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Edinburgh |
| 1st Bn The Duke of
Lancaster’s Regiment |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Cyprus |
| 2nd Bn The Duke of
Lancaster’s Regiment |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Weeton |
| 2nd Bn The Mercian
Regiment |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Chester |
| 1st Bn The Royal
Anglian Regiment |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Woolwich |
| 1st Bn The Royal Gurkha
Rifles |
Light Role
Infantry |
567 |
Shorncliffe |
| 2nd Bn The Royal Gurkha
Rifles |
Light Role
Infantry |
567 |
Brunei |
| 1st Bn The Rifles |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Chepstow |
| 2nd Bn The Rifles |
Light Role
Infantry |
561 |
Ballykinler |
| |
|
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|
| NB: This table
includes personnel attached from other arms. |
| Infantry -
Other Roles (5) |
Army 2020
Role |
Army 2020
Personnel |
Army 2020
Location |
| 1st Bn Coldstream Guards |
Public Duties |
594 |
Windsor |
| 1st Bn Irish Guards |
Public Duties |
594 |
Hounslow |
| 5th Bn Royal Regiment of Scotland
|
Public Duties |
110 |
Edinburgh |
| 2nd Bn The Parachute
Regiment |
Parachute |
660 |
Colchester |
| 3rd Bn The Parachute
Regiment (2) |
Parachute |
660 |
Colchester |
| |
|
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|
| NB: This table
includes personnel attached from other arms. |
In addition to the
above there are 3 x Guards Division Public Duties Companies who
supplement the Guards Battalions on public duties in London:
| Company |
Establishment |
| Nijmegen Coy Grenadier
Guards |
106 |
| 7 Coy Coldstream Guards
|
106 |
| F Coy Scots Guards |
106 |
INFANTRY BATTALION
ROTATION
Brunei: 1 RGR and 2 RGR will continue to rotate through
Brunei with battalion changes happening at roughly 30-36 month
intervals.
Cyprus: Battalions will be drawn from across the Adaptable
Force to fulfil the standing commitments in Cyprus.
State Ceremonial and Public Duties: Continues to be provided
by two of the five Foot Guards battalions and the incremental
companies in London and Scotland.
INFANTRY ARMY RESERVES BATTALIONS
There are 14 x Army Reserve Battalions and all of them are
affiliated to Regular Battalions. We believe that the eventual aim
is for all of these battalions to have a personnel strength of
around 500 by 2020 and there are longer term plans for whole
sub-unit deployments on some low intensity missions. In the short
term it would appear that the emphasis is on deploying platoons that
are properly trained and equipped alongside their regular
counterparts.
| Battalion |
HQ Location |
Administrative Division |
| 6th Battalion
Royal Regiment of Scotland (R) |
Glasgow |
Scottish |
| 7th Battalion
Royal Regiment of Scotland (R) |
Perth |
Scottish |
| 3rd Battalion
Princess of Wales Royal Regiment (R) |
Canterbury |
Queens |
| 5th Battalion The
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (R) |
Newcastle |
Queens |
| 3rd Battalion The
Royal Anglian Regiment (R) |
Bury St Edmunds
|
Queens |
| 4th Battalion The Duke of
Lancaster's Regiment (R) |
Preston |
Kings |
| 4th Battalion The Yorkshire
Regiment (R) |
York |
Kings |
| 4th Battalion the Mercian
Regiment (R) |
Wolverhampton |
Prince of Wales |
| 3rd Battalion the Royal
Welsh (R) |
Cardiff |
Prince of Wales |
| 2nd Battalion the Royal
Irish Regiment (R) |
Lisbon |
Prince of Wales |
| 4th Battalion the Parachute
Regiment (R) |
Pudsey |
Parachute
Regiment |
| The London Regiment (R)
|
Westminster |
Guards |
| 6th Bn The Rifles (R)
|
Exeter |
Rifles |
| 7th Bn The Rifles (R) |
Reading |
Rifles |
INFANTRY STRENGTH
During early 2016 the total infantry personnel figure will probably
be in the region of 24,000 (our estimate). In general, about 90 per
cent of infantry personnel are classified as deployable or ‘Fit for
Task’ at any one time.
During an average year we would expect to see about 2,400 recruits
joining the infantry. About 400 recruits would join the Guards
Division, 1,800 joining the Line Regiments and about 200 joining the
Parachute Regiment. In addition we would expect to see about 200
infantry officers leaving Sandhurst following commissioning.
Operational units
It would be unusual for the Infantry to fight as battalion units
especially in armoured or mechanised formations. If the task is
appropriate, the HQ of an infantry battalion will become the HQ of a
'battle group', and be provided with armour, artillery, engineers
and possibly aviation to enable it to become a balanced Battle
Group. Similarly Infantry Companies can be detached to HQs of
Armoured Regiments to make up Armoured Battle Groups.
In the pages that follow, the groupings are based on Unit
Establishment figures for peace support operations. For Warfighting
(High Intensity) a pairing mechanism operates which provides
augmentation which allows a unit to meet its role. For example, an
Armoured Infantry Regiment will receive additional Manoeuvre Support
assets and another Rifle Company to reach its Warfighting
Establishment (WFE) of 4 x Companies, 9 x Mortars and 18 x Medium
Range Anti-Tank Guided Weapons (ATGW).
It should be noted that the organisations listed next are under a
state of change as the demand of the Army 2020 structure become more
apparent. This is especially true of the organisations for the
manoeuvre support companies.
Types of Infantry Battalions
Armoured Infantry Battalion - Equipped with Warrior AFV.
Heavy Protected Mobility Battalion - Equipped with Mastiff APC.
Light Protected Mobility Battalion - Equipped for General Service
with Foxhound PPV.
Light Role Battalion - Equipped for General Service.
Infantry Battalion Air Assault - Equipped for Air Assault
Operations.
