List of marches of the British Armed Forces

The following is a list of official marches of the British Armed Forces.

For the marches of the regiments of the British Army at the start of World War II (1939) see Regimental marches of the British Army

Royal Navy

• Royal Navy – Heart of Oak (Quick)
• Royal Marines – A Life on the Ocean Wave (Quick); Preobrajensky (Slow)
• Royal Marines Commandos – Sarie Marais

British Army

Household Cavalry

• The Life Guards – Milanollo (Quick); Life Guards Slow March (Slow)
• The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) – Quick March of the Blues and Royals (Quick); Slow March of the Blues and Royals (Slow)

Royal Armoured Corps

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards – Rusty Buckles/Radetzky March (Quick); 1st Dragoon Guards and 2nd Dragoon Guards Slow March (Slow)
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) – The 3DGs (Quick); The Garb of Auld Gaul (Slow)
• The Royal Dragoon Guards – Fare Thee Well Inniskilling (Quick); 4th Dragoon Guards/7th Dragoon Guards (Slow)
• The Queen's Royal Hussars (Queen's Own and Royal Irish) – Regimental Quick March of the Queen's Royal Hussars (Quick); 3rd Hussars Slow March/Litany of Loretto/The Garb of Auld Gaul/March of the Scottish Archers (Slow)
• 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) – God Bless the Prince of Wales (Quick); Men of Harlech/Coburg (Slow)
• The King's Royal Hussars – The King's Royal Hussars (Quick); Coburg (Slow)
• The Light Dragoons – Balaklava (Quick); Denmark (Slow)
• The Queen's Royal Lancers – Stable Jacket (Quick); Omdurman (Slow)
• The Royal Tank Regiment – My Boy Willie (Quick); The Royal Tank Regiment Slow March (Slow)
• The Royal Yeomanry – Farmer's Boy (Quick)
• The Queen's Own Yeomanry – D'ye ken John Peel (Quick)

Infantry

• Grenadier Guards – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Scipio (Slow), The Duke of York (Slow)
• Coldstream Guards – Milanollo (Quick); Figaro (Slow)
• Scots Guards – Hielan' Laddie (Quick); The Garb of Auld Gaul (Slow)
• Irish Guards – St Patrick's Day (Quick); Let Erin Remember (Slow)
• Welsh Guards – Rising of the Lark (Quick); Men of Harlech (Slow)
• The Royal Regiment of Scotland – Scotland the Brave (Quick); Royal Regiment of Scotland Slow March (Slow)
• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) – The Farmer's Boy/Soldiers of the Queen (Quick); The Minden Rose (Slow)
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) – King's Own Royal Border Regiment March (De ye ken John Peel) (Quick); The Red Rose (Slow)
• The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Rule Britannia (Slow)
• The Royal Anglian Regiment – Rule Britannia/Speed the Plough (Quick); The Northamptonshire (Slow)
• The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) – Ça Ira (Quick); The Duke of York (Slow)
• The Mercian Regiment – Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie/Under the Double Eagle (Quick); Stand Firm and Strike Hard (Slow)
• The Royal Welsh – Men of Harlech (Quick); Forth to the Battle (Slow)
• The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) – Killaloe (Quick); Eileen Alannah (Slow);
• The Parachute Regiment – Ride of the Valkyries (Quick); Pomp and Circumstance No 4 (Slow)
• The Royal Gurkha Rifles – Bravest of the Brave (Quick); God Bless the Prince of Wales (Slow); Keel Row (Double Past)
• The Rifles – Mechanised Infantry (Quick); Old Salamanca (Slow); Keel Row/Road to the Isles (Double Past)
• The Special Air Service – Marche des Parachutistes Belges (Quick); Lili Marlene (Slow)
• Royal Gibraltar Regiment – Sortie (Quick); The Keys (Slow)

Support Arms and Services

• Royal Artillery – The British Grenadiers/Voice Of The Guns(Quick); The Royal Artillery Slow March (Slow)
• Royal Horse Artillery – Bonnie Dundee (Gallop march]; The Keel Row (Trot March)The Royal Artillery Slow March sometimes referred to as Duchess of Kent March (walk march)
• Honourable Artillery Company – The British Grenadiers (Quick);The Duke of York (Slow)
• Royal Engineers – Wings/The British Grenadiers
• Royal Corps of Signals – Begone Dull Care (Quick), HRH The Princess Royal (Slow)
• Army Air Corps – Recce Flight (Quick); Thievish Magpie (based on La gazza ladra) (Slow)
• Royal Army Chaplains' Department – Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary)
• Royal Logistic Corps – On Parade
• Royal Army Medical Corps – Here's a Health unto His Majesty
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – Lilliburlero
• Adjutant General's Corps – Pride of Lions
  • Royal Military Police - The Watchtower
  • Military Provost Staff - The Metropolitan
  • Army Legal Services Branch - Scales of Justice
• Royal Army Veterinary Corps – Drink Puppy Drink/A Hunting We Will Go (Quick); Golden Spurs (Slow)
• Small Arms School Corps – March of the Bowmen
• Royal Army Dental Corps – Green Facings
• Intelligence Corps – Rose and Laurel
• Royal Army Physical Training Corps – Be Fit
• Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps – Grey and Scarlet
• Corps of Army Music – The Music Maker
• Army Cadet Force – Children Of The Regiment (Quick); Space Oddity (Slow)^[1]

Royal Air Force

• Royal Air Force – Royal Air Force March Past
• Royal Air Force Regiment – Holyrood
• Royal Air Force Police – Royal Air Force Police March Past
• Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service – Skywards
• Royal Observer Corps – Skywatch

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