SUMMARY OF ARMY 2020 RESERVE STRUCTURE AND BASING CHANGES CONTENTS Page Regiment / Corps 1. Yeomanry of The Royal Armoured Corps 2. Yeomanry of The Royal Armoured Corps (continued) 3. Royal Regiment of Artillery 4. Royal Regiment of Artillery (continued) 5. Royal Regiment of Artillery (continued) 6. Corps of Royal Engineers 7. Corps of Royal Engineers (continued) 8. Corps of Royal Engineers (continued) 9. Corps of Royal Engineers (continued) 10. Royal Corps of Signals 11. Royal Corps of Signals (continued) 12. Royal Corps of Signals (continued) 13. The Royal Regiment of Scotland 14. The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment 15. The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 16. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 17. The Royal Anglian Regiment 18. The Yorkshire Regiment 19. The Mercian Regiment 20. The Royal Welsh 21. The Royal Irish Regiment 22. The Parachute Regiment 23. The London Regiment 24. The Rifles 25. Army Air Corps 26. The Royal Logistic Corps 27. The Royal Logistic Corps (continued) 28. The Royal Logistic Corps (continued) 29. The Royal Logistic Corps (continued) 30. The Royal Logistic Corps (continued) 31. Royal Army Medical Corps 32. Royal Army Medical Corps (continued) 33. Royal Army Medical Corps (continued) 34. Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 35. Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (continued) 36. Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) and (Military Provost Staff) 37. Royal Army Veterinary Corps 38. Intelligence Corps 39. Intelligence Corps (continued) 40. Media Operations Group i SUMMARY OF ARMY 2020 RESERVE STRUCTURE AND BASING CHANGES – ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS Unit Sub-unit Structural Change Current Locations Future Locations Timing Remarks Regimental HQ Bovington Bovington N/A Nil A (Dorset Yeomanry) To re-role as a HQ Bovington Bovington No later than Dec 16 To be HQ (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron Squadron Squadron Detachment in Swindon formed from B (Royal Wiltshire Salisbury and elements of the withdrawn A (Royal See remarks Salisbury No later than Dec 16 Yeomanry) Squadron Swindon Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron of The The Royal Royal Yeomanry Wessex Detachment in Hereford formed from Yeomanry C (Royal Gloucestershire Cirencester and elements of the withdrawn B (Shropshire See remarks Cirencester No later than Dec 16 Hussars) Squadron Hereford Yeomanry) Squadron of The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry Renamed A (Royal Devon Yeomanry) D (Royal Devon Barnstaple and No change Exeter and Paignton No later than Dec 16 Squadron Yeomanry) Squadron Paignton Barnstaple TA Centre not vacated. The SofS announced that the name of the Regiment is planned to change to ‘The Regimental HQ See remarks Telford Edinburgh No later than Oct 14 Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry’. A new HQ (Lothian and Borders Horse) Squadron will be formed in Edinburgh To be B (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and A (Staffordshire, Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron, with Warwickshire and Resubordinates to Dudley Dudley and Telford No later than Oct 14 a troop detachment in Telford formed from Worcestershire The Royal Yeomanry elements of the withdrawn B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Yeomanry) Squadron Mercian and A troop detachment will remain in Telford as Lancastrian Withdrawn from the part of B (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Yeomanry B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Army’s Order of Telford N/A No later than Oct 14 Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Squadron Battle Royal Yeomanry and may retain the Shropshire Yeomanry identity Resubordinates to C (Cheshire Yeomanry) The Queen’s Own Chester Chester No later than Oct 14 Nil Squadron Yeomanry D (Duke of Lancaster’s Resubordinates to To be B (Duke of Lancaster’s Own Own Yeomanry) The Queen’s Own Wigan Wigan No later than Oct 14 Yeomanry) Squadron Squadron Yeomanry 1 Unit Sub-unit Structural Change Current Locations Future Locations Timing Remarks Regimental HQ No change Newcastle Newcastle N/A Nil A (Ayrshire Yeomanry Resubordinates to Squadron) The Queen’s Ayr Ayr No later than Oct 14 Nil RHQ in Edinburgh Own Yeomanry B (North Irish Horse) Resubordinates to Belfast Belfast No later than Oct 14 Nil The Queen’s Squadron RHQ in Edinburgh Own C (Fife and Forfar Resubordinates to Cupar Cupar No later than Oct 14 Nil Yeomanry Yeomanry) Squadron RHQ in Edinburgh To be HQ (Northumberland Hussars) D (Northumberland To re-role as a HQ Sunderland Newcastle No later than Oct 14 Squadron Hussars) Squadron Squadron Sunderland TA Centre is not vacated Y (Yorkshire Yeomanry) No change York York No later than Oct 14 To be A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron Squadron Regimental HQ No change Croydon Fulham and Croydon No later than Oct 14 Nil Withdrawn from the A troop detachment will remain in Swindon A (Royal Wiltshire Army’s Order of Swindon N/A No later than Oct 14 as part of B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Yeomanry) Squadron Battle Squadron, The Royal Wessex Yeomanry A troop detachment will remain in Leicester Withdrawn from the as part of A (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, B (Leicestershire and Army’s Order of Leicester N/A No later than Dec 16 Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry Derbyshire) Squadron Battle and South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Squadron C (Kent and The Royal Sharpshooters No change Croydon Croydon N/A Nil Yeomanry Yeomanry) Squadron To be A (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry and South Nottinghamshire Hussars) S (Sherwood Rangers Nottingham and No change Nottingham No later than Dec 16 Squadron, with a troop detachment in Yeomanry) Squadron Leicester Leicester formed from elements of the withdrawn B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire) Squadron W (Westminster To re-role as a HQ To be HQ (Westminster Dragoons) No later than Oct 14 Dragoons) Squadron Squadron Squadron All name changes are subject to endorsement. 2 SUMMARY OF ARMY 2020 RESERVE STRUCTURE AND BASING CHANGES – ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY Unit Sub-unit Structural Change Current Locations Future Locations Timing Remarks Regimental HQ No change City of London City of London No Change Nil The Honourable 1 Squadron No change City of London City of London No Change Nil Artillery 2 Squadron No change City of London City of London No Change Nil Company 3 Squadron No change City of London City of London No Change Nil Regimental HQ Suspended Animation Luton N/A Not before Apr 14 201 (Hertfordshire and Luton TA Centre will become part Bedfordshire of 6th Regiment Army Air Corps. Suspended Animation Luton and Romford N/A Not before Apr 14 Yeomanry) Parachute Romford TA Centre to be vacated th Battery Royal Artillery 100 266 (Gloucestershire th (Yeomanry) Resubordinates to 104 Re-role to Mini Unmanned Air Volunteer Artillery) Bristol Bristol Not before Apr 14 Regiment Royal Regiment Royal Artillery Systems Battery Royal Artillery Artillery 307 (South Nottinghamshire Hucknall Lane TA Centre will Hussars Yeomanry Suspended Animation Nottingham N/A Not before Apr 14 become part of 4th Battalion The Royal Horse Artillery) Mercian Regiment Battery Royal Artillery Regimental HQ No change Gateshead Gateshead No later than Mar 15 Nil 203 (Elswick) Battery No change Blyth Blyth No later than Mar 15 Nil Royal Artillery st 204 (The Tyneside 101 Re-role to Multiple Launch Rocket Scottish) Battery Royal No change Newcastle Newcastle No later than Mar 15 (Northumbrian) System Artillery Regiment Royal rd 205 (3 Durham Artillery Volunteer Artillery) No change South Shields South Shields No later than Mar 15 Nil Battery Royal Artillery 269 (West Riding) Re-role to Multiple Launch Rocket No change Leeds Leeds No later than Mar 15 Battery Royal Artillery System 3 Unit Sub-unit Structural Change Current Locations Future Locations Timing Remarks Absorb St Helens based Regimental HQ St Helens St Helens No later than Sep 15 Nil elements of 209 Battery 208 (3rd West Lancashire) Battery No change Liverpool Liverpool No later than Sep 15 Nil Royal Artillery Detachment in 103rd Manchester will grow to (Lancashire 209 (Manchester & St a battery size. The Artillery Helens) Battery Royal remainder of the St Helens and Manchester Manchester No later than Sep 15 Nil Volunteers) Artillery existing Battery in St Regiment Royal Helens will merge with Artillery the Regimental HQ Resubordinates from 210 (Staffordshire) th 106 (Yeomanry) Wolverhampton Wolverhampton No later than Sep 15 Re-role to Light Gun Battery Royal Artillery Regiment Royal Artillery 216 (The Bolton Artillery) Battery Royal No change Bolton Bolton No later than Sep 15 Nil Artillery Regimental HQ No change Newport Newport No later than Mar 15 Nil 211 (South Wales) No change Abertillery and Cardiff Abertillery and Cardiff No later than Mar 15 Nil Battery Royal Artillery 214 (Worcestershire) th No change Worcester Worcester No later than Mar 15 Nil 104 Regiment Battery Royal Artillery Royal Artillery 217 (City of Newport) No change Newport Newport No later than Mar 15 Nil Battery Royal Artillery 266 (Gloucestershire Resubordinates from th Re-role to Mini Unmanned Air Volunteer Artillery) 100 (Yeomanry) Bristol Bristol No later than Mar 15 Systems Battery Royal Artillery Regiment Royal Artillery 4 Unit Sub-unit Structural Change Current Locations Future Locations Timing Remarks Regimental HQ No change Edinburgh Edinburgh No later than Sep 15 Nil 206 (Ulster) Battery Newtonards and No change Newtonards and Coleraine No later than Sep 15 Nil Royal Artillery Coleraine 207 (City of Glasgow) No change Glasgow Glasgow No later than Sep 15 Nil Battery Royal Artillery 105th Regiment 212 Battery (Highland) Arbroath, Kirkcaldy and Royal Artillery No change Arbroath and Shetland