Britain: An official handbook > 1956

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BRITAIN: AN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK
programme of wireless re-equipment is in hand, and a new range of bridging and
ferrying equipment is being introduced into service.
Provision is being made for the introduction of surface-to-surface guided
weapons. In 1955 groups of Army instructors began to receive training in the
United States in the use of the Corporal guided missile.
With the development of nuclear weapons, much attention is being given to the
problem of increasing mobility without loss of fighting capacity. Studies and
experiments are being carried out, in consultation with other Commonwealth and
NATO countries, with a view to simplifying weapon systems, reducing the number
and variety of weapons and speeding up methods of supply.
Organization of the Regular Army
The Army is organized in twenty-five corps or arms, which include the Royal
Armoured Corps (the historic Cavalry Regiments—Dragoons, Hussars, Lancers—
and the Royal Tank Regiment), Artillery, Engineers, Signals, Infantry, and various
other corps such as the Royal Army Service Corps, the Royal Army Ordnance
Corps, and the Royal Army Medical Corps. The Infantry has been reorganized
since 1946 in the following groups:
1. The Grenadier Guards, The Coldstream Guards, The Scots Guards, The
Irish Guards, The Welsh Guards.
2. The Royal Scots, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, The King’s Own Scottish
Borderers, The Cameronians.
3. The Queen’s Royal Regiment, The Buffs, The Royal Fusiliers, The East
Surrey Regiment, The Royal Sussex Regiment, The Queen’s Own Royal
West Kent Regiment, The Middlesex Regiment.
4. The King’s Own Royal Regiment, The King’s Regiment, The Lancashire
Fusiliers, The East Lancashire Regiment, The Border Regiment, The South
Lancashire Regiment, The Loyal Regiment, The Manchester Regiment.
5. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, The West Yorkshire Regiment, The
East Yorkshire Regiment, The Green Howards, The Duke of Wellington’s
Regiment, The York and Lancaster Regiment.
6. The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment,
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, The Sherwood Foresters.
7. The Royal Norfolk Regiment, The Suffolk Regiment, The Bedfordshire
and Hertfordshire Regiment, The Essex Regiment, The Northamptonshire
Regiment.
8. The Devonshire Regiment, The Gloucestershire Regiment, The Royal
Hampshire Regiment, The Dorset Regiment, The Royal Berkshire Regi¬
ment, The Wiltshire Regiment.
9. The Somerset Light Infantry, The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The King’s Own York¬
shire Light Infantry, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, The Durham
Light Infantry.
10. The Cheshire Regiment, The Worcestershire Regiment, The South
Staffordshire Regiment, The North Staffordshire Regiment.
11. The Royal Welch Fusiliers, The South Wales Borderers, The Welch
Regiment.
12. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Royal Ulster Rifles, The Royal Irish
Fusiliers.