UK Armed Forces Question?

Question

Why is our airforce ROYAL (RAF), Navy ROYAL (RN), marines (navy) ROYAL (RM) but our army is just THE ARMY and not THE ROYAL ARMY?

All service personell take the same oath upon attestation.

I know a lot of individual units have ROYAL in the title - REME, Blues and Royals etc....

And I know Royal Marines are part of the Royal Navy.

Answer 1

It is partly to so with Cromwell as people have answered before and the fact that his new model army was anything but affiliated to royalty.

The second part however is that we still didnt have a national army in terms of the UK for a long time after that. Cromwells army was an English army, not a British one.

The Royal Navy was actually the first branch of service to be established as a British one by the ruling monarch, which is why it is still refered to as the "senior service".

The British Army however has more kind of stumbled into existence from being a collection of fuedal regiments, thru using mercenaries (often German), until eventually becoming a crown service which encompassed Scottish, Welsh and Irish regiments.

Answer 2

It's The British Army, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Navy. The Royal Marine Commando's are actually part of The Royal Navy. in the British Army many of the Units have a Royal in the title. For example, The King's Royal Hussars, The Queen's Royal Lancers, The Royal Regiment of Wales, 19 Regiment Royal Artillery, The Royal Logistics Corps, Royal Military Police, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, The Royal Engineers and the list goes on. So there are lots of Royals in the British Army, because each regiment unit and battalion has it's own title given to it by Royalty.

Answer 3

The first Model Army was created by Cromwell to fight the Royalists. Ever since they have never carried the title Royal as a whole. But individual regiments do carry this title. Such as Royal Fusiliers (Disbanded now) Now The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

Answer 4

Because army units can be individually prefixed as in royal greenjackets royal engineers etc usually with a royal as col onel in chief

Answer 5

the army is different ..because each regiment has a name IE the royal household cav,royal artillery,royal corps of transport(now part of logistics )..a lot of now amalgamated regiments have ex royal regiments in the make up..IE the royal Hampshire regiment(the tigers) is now part and parcel of the queens regiment...the royal fusiliers are also amalgamated..in old days gone by wealthy landowners raised regiments..(a bit like Sharpe in the drama on TV)..

Answer 6

its to do with the english cival war as some regiments fought against the crown therefore the royal was dropped from the army and was carried on in the title of regiment's

Answer 7

good question, but don't you get royals in the army like the royal Fusiliers.

Answer 8

I think it could be because there are lot's of little division's, Royal Artillery etc. I may be completely wrong.

Good question though.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

It is kind of like the reason why people in the movies don't have names. You can't get too attached to the army because there just going to die on you anyway(j/k).