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# United Kingdom Army Regimental and Unit Flags

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- United Kingdom Regimental and Unit Flags
- United Kingdom Army Air Forces Corps Regimental and Unit Flags

See also:

- Joint Services Flag
- Ministry Of Defence Flag
- Regimental Flags And Colours
- Board Of Ordnance
- Army Council
- Army Service Corps - "Royal Army Service Corps" after 1918
- Budge Flag
- Army Camp Flags
- Household Cavalry
- Flag Stations
- King's German Legion 1813-1815
- ANZUK Force
- Grenadier Guards
- Household Cavalry
- Queen's 1st Dragoon Guards Camp Flag
- Queen's Own Highlanders
- Royal Dragoon Guards
- Royal Ulster Rifles
- Royal Irish Regiment
- First European Regiment of Fusiliers
- Middle East Land Forces
- Prince Of Wales's Own Regiment Of Yorkshire
- Inns Of Court And City Yeomanry
- Flags At Soldiers Of Gloucestershire Museum
- Colours Of Infantry Militia In English Civil War
- 7th Duke Of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
- Royal Gibraltar Regiment Colours
- United Kingdom Marine Unit Flags
- United Kingdom

## United Kingdom Army Regimental and Unit Flags

The principal administrative unit of the Army is the regiment. Each regiment has its own long history, traditions and insignia, and this includes the flags they use. The flags flown by regiments and their component sub-units (whether battalions, companies, squadrons, troops or batteries) are not paid from the public purse, but by each individual regiment from commercial suppliers. The emblem is usually the regimental cap badge or emblem. Because they are bought from commercial suppliers, there are inevitably some changes in style or details over time. Additionally, some manufacturers market ranges of flags aiming for the nostalgia market, whose designs are different again from the flags used by the regiment.

The illustrated collection below attempts to show some of the hundreds of different military flags and ensigns used by United Kingdom Army units and commands.1 It is by no means meant to be inclusive of all the flags, colours, and standards that are used.
Ian Sumner and Pete Loeser, 18 January 2022

Note: Click on Individual Flag's text to see additional information about specific unit provided elsewhere on FOTW pages.2

1st Queens Dragoon Guards 3 | Intelligence Corps 3 | Suffolk Regiment | Royal Artillery 12th Regiment
Army Physical Training Corps 3 | Adjutant General's Corps 3 | Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers3 | London Regiment Household Division Reserve
Household Division 3 | Household Division ⁴ | School of Infantry 3 | Royal Anglian Regiment
Queen's Own Highlanders | Royal Dragoon Guards | Royal Army Dental Corps | Royal Army Veterinary Corps |
Royal Armoured Corps 3 | Royal Corps of Transport | Royal Green Jackets | Royal Lancers
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | Duke of Lancaster's Regiment ⁴ | Duke of Lancaster's Regiment | East Lancashire Regiment
Royal Army Medical Corps 3 | Mercian Regiment | Parachute Regiment 3 | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Royal Regiment of Artillery 3 | Corps of Royal Engineers 3 | Royal Irish Regiment 3 | Royal Irish Regiment 3
Royal Irish Regiment ⁴ | 2nd Division 3 | Army Cadet Force | Combined Cadet Force
Royal Pioneer Corps ⁴ | Middlesex Regiment ⁴ | The Royal Norfolk Regiment ⁴ | Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ⁴
Royal Logistic Corps 3 | Royal Regiment of Scotland | Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | Royal Corps of Signals 3
Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's Own) ⁴ | Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's Own) ⁴ | North Staffordshire Regiment | South Staffordshire Regiment
Royal Tank Regiment 3 | Royal Welsh Fusiliers 3 | Royal Welsh | The Royal Monmouthshire Engineers Militia
Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 143rd West Midlands Brigade | Royal Wessex Yeomenry | Yorkshire Regiment
Royal Army Chaplains' Department 3 | Royal Army Service Corps 4 | Royal Army Service Corps 4 | King's Own Royal Border Regiment 4
King's Own Scottish Borderers 4

King's Regiment
Manchester and Liverpool 4
King's Royal Hussars
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Grenadier Guards 4
Grenadier Guards 4
10 Queen's Own Gurkha
Logistic Regiment
Royal Gurkha Rifles 3
Royal Gibraltar Regiment 4
Royal Gibraltar Regiment 3

## Army Air Forces Corps (AAC) - Regimental and Unit Flags

The Army Air Corps (AAC) is a part of the British Army formed in 1942 in World War II. Today, there are eight regiments (seven Regular Army and one Reserve) of the AAC as well as four Independent Flights and two Independent Squadrons deployed in support of British Army operations around the world. Regiments and flights are located in the United Kingdom, Brunei, Canada and Germany. Some AAC squadrons provide the air assault elements of 16 Air Assault Brigade through Joint Helicopter Command.

Special Air Service Regiment | Special Air Service Regiment ⁴ | Special Air Service Regiment ⁴ | United Kingdom Air Forces (NATO) |
Army Air Corps ⁴ | Army Air Corps Variant 3 | Army Air Corps Variant 3 | Army Air Corps Variant ⁴
Airborne Forces⁵ | Air Assault Forces⁶

Notations:

1 These flags are not placed in chronological or alphabetical order, but rather as they were provided for FOTW's use.
2 Additional information links are provided for all military flags shown here if they have been added to another existing page.
3 Headquarters (HQ) or Camp Flag, considered the "official" unit flag.
⁴ Manufacturer's Variant.
⁵ This Airborne Forces Flag is entirely unofficial - the name 'Airborne Forces' is not an official Army category.
⁶ This Air Assault Forces Flag entirely unofficial - the name 'Air Assault Forces' is not an official Army category