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army11a1 - Strength of The Territorial Army & Order of Battle

RESERVE FORCES

TERRITORIAL ARMY STRENGTH AND

ORDER OF BATTLE

STRENGTH OF THE TERRITORIAL ARMY (MID 2007)

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)


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.

Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

RHQ – Telford

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

Queen’s 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.

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.

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.

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

ROYAL SIGNALS

21 Signal Regiment (Air Support) (Regular)
RHQ –
Colerne
TA Squadron (43 Sqn) and Forward Air Control Troop in Bath

31 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – London

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

32 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Glasgow

Squadrons: Aberdeen/Elgin; East Kilbride; Edinburgh.

33 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Liverpool

Squadrons: Manchester; Liverpool; Runcorn.

34 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Middlesborough

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

35 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Coventry

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

36 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Grays

Squadrons: Cambridge; Colchester/Ipswich/Southend; Cambridge/Norwich; Cambridge/Aylesbury/Bedford.

37 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Redditch

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

38 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Sheffield

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

39 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Bristol

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

40 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Belfast

Squadrons: Belfast; Limavady; Bangor.

71 Signal Regiment (V)

RHQ – Bexleyheath

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

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

Bn HQ – Perth

Companies: Dundee/Kirkcaldy/Stirling; Aberdeen/Peterhead/Keith/Lerwick; Inverness/Stornoway/Wick; Dumbarton/Dunoon; Perth (Band).

3rd Bn The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s 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 Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, 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).

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).

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.

202 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ - Birmingham

Squadrons: Stoke on Trent; Oxford; Shrewsbury.

203 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Cardiff

Squadrons: Swansea; Aberystwyth/Crickhowell; Llandudno.

204 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Belfast

Squadrons: Ballymena; Newtownards; Armagh.

205 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Glasgow

Squadrons: Glasgow; Aberdeen; Dundee; Edinburgh.

207 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Manchester

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

208 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ - Liverpool

Squadrons: Ellesmere Port; Blackpool/Lancaster.

212 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Sheffield

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

243 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – Keynsham

Squadrons: Exeter; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Poole.

256 Field Hospital (V)

RHQ – London

Squadrons: Walworth; Kensington; Kingston; Bow.

306 Field Hospital
(V)

York.

225 Divisional General Support Medical Regiment (V)

RHQ – Dundee

Squadrons: Sunderland; Glenrothes; Dundee.

253 Divisional General Support Medical Regiment (V)

RHQ – Belfast

Squadrons: Londonderry; Belfast.

254 Divisional General Support Medical Regiment (V)

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

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.

152 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Belfast
Squadrons: Londonderry/Coleraine; Belfast.

155 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Plymouth

Squadrons: Plymouth; Truro; Poole/Dorchester.

156 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Liverpool

Squadrons: Liverpool; Birkenhead; Manchester; Bootle.

157 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Cardiff

Squadrons: Cardiff; Swansea; Carmarthen/Haverford West.

158 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Peterborough

Squadrons: Peterborough; Kempston; Ipswich; Loughborough.

159 Support Regiment (V)

RHQ – Stoke

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

160 Transport Regiment (V)

RHQ – Grantham

Squadrons: 4 x Sqn all at Grantham

162 Movement Control Regiment (V)

RHQ – Grantham

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
Squadrons: 4 x Sqns all at Grantham.

Catering Support Regiment

RHQ – Grantham
Squadrons: 3 x Sqns all at Grantham.

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.

102 Battalion REME (V)

Bn HQ – Newton Aycliffe

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

103 Battalion REME (V)

Bn HQ – Crawley

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

104 Battalion REME (V)

Bn HQ – Bordon

Company: Bordon.

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)

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.

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 Wales’s Royal Regiment Territorial Army Band

Royal Anglian Territorial Army Band

North West Infantry Band (King’s)

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

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