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Gibraltar. Royal Gibraltar Regiment: Raised in 1943. The regiment consists of one infantry battalion (1 × HQ company and 3 × infantry companies) and dispatches members to take part in British conflicts overseas. royalgibraltarregiment.gi. Montserrat. Royal Montserrat Defence Force: Raised in 1899.
Joint Service Support Unit, at RAF Digby (Army Reserve elements) 63 (Special Air Service) Signal Squadron, at Stirling Lines, Hereford and a troop in Portsmouth. Central Volunteer Headquarters, Royal Corps of Signals, at Basil Hill Barracks, Corsham [ 83] 254 (Specialist Group Information Services) Signal Squadron.
The British Army has a network of permanent operating bases overseas, primarily in: [5] British Army Training Unit Kenya, [10] British Army Training Unit Suffield, in Canada, [11] British Army Training and Support Unit Belize [12] Omani-British Joint Training Area, in Oman, used as a Land Regional Hub (LRH). [13]
Hampshire. 51°15′36″N 0°45′35″W / . 51.2599°N 0.7598°W. / 51.2599; -0.7598. Aldershot Garrison, also known as Aldershot Military Town, is a major garrison in South East England, between Aldershot and Farnborough in Hampshire. The garrison was established when the War Department bought a large area of land near the village of ...
The Stanford Training Area ( STANTA ), originally known as the Stanford Battle Area, and now more commonly referred to simply as STANTA, is a British Army training area in the English county of Norfolk. The area is approximately 30,000 acres (120 km 2) in size; it is some 7 miles (11 km) north of the town of Thetford and 25 miles (40 km) south ...
The command structure within the British Army is hierarchical; with divisions and brigades controlling groupings of units from an administrative perspective. Major units are battalion -sized, with minor units being company sized sub-units. In some regiments or corps, battalions are called regiments, and companies are called squadrons or ...
The Corps Warrant, which is the official list of which bodies of the British Military (not to be confused with naval) Forces were to be considered Corps of the British Army for the purposes of the Army Act, the Reserve Forces Act, 1882, and the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907, had not been updated since 1926 (Army Order 49 of 1926 ...
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and ...