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, squadron, 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 conclusive 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 Welch Fusiliers ³	Royal Welch	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.

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


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