This is the order of battle for Operation Granby, the name given to the

British Armed Forces The British Armed Forces, also known as His Majesty's Armed Forces, are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. They also promote the UK's wider interests, s ...

deployment to the Middle East after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and subsequent operations during the

1991 Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

. British Forces Middle East (BFME) –

Lieutenant-General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

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British Ground Force in the Gulf War, 1990–91
/ref> * 1st Armoured Division – Major General Rupert Smith * Force Maintenance Area (FMA) – Brigadier Martin White * BFME direct reporting units

British Army

* 1st Armoured Division ** 1 Armoured Division Signal Regiment **

7th Armoured Brigade *** 7th Armoured Brigade HQ and Signal Squadron (207) ***

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) ***

Queen's Royal Irish Hussars The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958. The regiment saw active service against ...

*** A Squadron,

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is a regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army. Nicknamed The Welsh Cavalry, the regiment recruits from Wales and the bordering English counties of Cheshire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire, and ...

*** 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) *** 40 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 21 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers ** 4th Armoured Brigade *** 4th Armoured Brigade HQ and Signal Squadron (204) ***

14th/20th King's Hussars The 14th/20th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King's Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussa ...

*** 1st Battalion,

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland. The regimen ...

*** 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers *** 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 23 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers ** Divisional Troops ***

16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers The 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 16th The Queen's Lancers and the 5th Royal Irish Lancers in 1922. The reason for the uniquely atypical regimental title (wit ...

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4 Regiment Army Air Corps 4 Regiment Army Air Corps is a regiment of the Army Air Corps (AAC). History * Detmold , 1964-1970 , 1, 23 & 24 Flights * HQ at Detmold , 1971-1976 , 654 Squadron at Minden , 661 at Herford , 662 at Minden * Detmold , 1977-1980 , 654 & ...

*** 26 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 32 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 39 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 12 Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery *** 32 Armoured Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers *** 39 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers *** 15 Field Support Squadron Royal Engineers Supporting units * 1

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME ) is a corps of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses. The corps is described as the "British Army's Professional Engineers". History Prior to REME's for ...

* 1 Armoured Division Signal Regiment * 30 Signal Regiment * 14 Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare) * 1st Battalion Scots Guards * 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards * 1st Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers * 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers * Elements of 1st Battalion

Queen's Own Highlanders The Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons), officially abbreviated "QO HLDRS," was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. It was in existence from 1961 to 1994. History 1961–1970 The regiment was f ...

* 1 Armoured Division Transport Regiment

Royal Corps of Transport The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps established to manage all matters in relation to the transport of men and material for the Army and the wider Defence community. It was formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1993; its units and ...

* 4 Armoured Division Transport Regiment Royal Corps of Transport * 7 Tank Transporter Regiment Royal Corps of Transport * 10 Regiment Royal Corps of Transport * 27 Regiment Royal Corps of Transport * 28 Ambulance Squadron Gurkha Transport Regiment * 52 Port Squadron Royal Corps of Transport * 1 Armoured Field Ambulance * 5 Armoured Field Ambulance * 22 Field Hospital * 23 Parachute Field Ambulance * 24 Airmobile Field Ambulance * 32 Field Hospital * 33 General Hospital * 60 Field Psychiatric Team * 205 General Hospital * 3 Ordnance Battalion Royal Army Ordnance Corps * 6 Ordnance Battalion RAOC * 6 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers * 7 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers * 11 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers * 71 Aircraft Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers * 174 Provost Company Royal Military Police * 203 Provost Company Royal Military Police * 27 Group Royal Pioneer Corps * 187 Company Royal Pioneer Corps * 221 EOD Coy RAOC * 598 Company Royal Pioneer Corps * 54 Squadron Engineer Support and Ambulance Squadron Royal Corps of Transport * Elements of the Royal Army Pay Corps

Royal Air Force

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Panavia Tornado F.3 The Panavia Tornado Air Defence Variant (ADV) was a long-range, twin-engine interceptor version of the swing-wing Panavia Tornado. The aircraft's first flight was on 27 October 1979, and it entered service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1986 ...

s ; Panavia Tornado GR.1 ;Panavia Tornado GR.1a *

No. 2 Squadron RAF Number 2 Squadron, also known as No. II (Army Co-operation) Squadron, is the most senior Squadron (aviation), squadron of the Royal Air Force. It is currently equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon, Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 at RAF Lossiemouth, C ...

No. 13 Squadron RAF Number 13 Squadron, also written as XIII Squadron, is a squadron of the Royal Air Force which operate the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from RAF Waddington since reforming on 26 October 2012. The unit first formed as par ...

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SEPECAT Jaguar The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role. It is still in service with the Indian Air Force. Originall ...

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No. 6 Squadron RAF Number 6 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 at RAF Lossiemouth. It was previously equipped with the SEPECAT Jaguar, SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3 in the close air support and tactical reconnaissance roles, and was post ...

* No. 41 Squadron RAF *

No. 54 Squadron RAF Number 54 Squadron (sometimes written as No. LIV Squadron) is a squadron (aviation), squadron of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. On 1 September 2005, it took on the role of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ...

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Blackburn Buccaneer The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccanee ...

No. 12 Squadron RAF Number 12 Squadron, also known as No. 12 (Bomber) Squadron and occasionally as No. XII Squadron, is a flying squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The squadron reformed in July 2018 as a joint RAF/Qatar Emiri Air Force squadron. It is currently ...

No. 208 Squadron RAF No 208 (Reserve) Squadron was a reserve unit of the Royal Air Force, most recently based at RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. It operated the BAe Hawk aircraft, as a part of No. 4 Flying Training School. Due to obsolescence of its Hawk T.1 aircraft ...

; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod * No. 42 Squadron RAF *

No. 120 Squadron RAF Number 120 Squadron or No. CXX Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force which was established as a Royal Flying Corps unit late in World War I, disbanded a year after the end of the war, then re-established as a RAF Coastal Command squadro ...

No. 201 Squadron RAF Number 201 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It currently operates the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray. It is the only squadron affiliated with Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. This affiliation started in 1935 ...

No. 206 Squadron RAF No. 206 Squadron is a Test and Evaluation Squadron of the Royal Air Force. Until 2005 it was employed in the maritime patrol role with the Nimrod MR.2 at RAF Kinloss, Moray. It was announced in December 2004 that 206 Squadron would disband on ...

; Lockheed C-130 Hercules * No. 24 Squadron RAF *

No. 30 Squadron RAF Number 30 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft and is based at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire. The squadron was first formed as a unit of the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, serving through the rest of t ...

No. 47 Squadron RAF No. 47 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Lockheed C-130 Hercules from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England. History First formation No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire on 1 March 19 ...

No. 70 Squadron RAF No.70 or LXX Squadron RAF provides strategic transport. History First World War The squadron was formed on 22 April 1916 at Farnborough, and was equipped with the Sopwith 1½ Strutter. The squadron was posted to France, and in 1917 re-equi ...

; Handley Page Victor * No. 55 Squadron RAF ; Lockheed TriStar K.1 *

No. 216 Squadron RAF Number 216 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, since reforming on 1 April 2020 and is tasked with testing future drone swarm technology. It had previously operated Lockheed TriStar K1, KC1 and C ...

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Boeing Chinook The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem rotor helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Ch ...

No. 7 Squadron RAF * No. 18 Squadron RAF ;

Westland Puma HC.1 Westland or Westlands may refer to: Places * Westlands, an affluent neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi, Kenya *Westlands, Staffordshire, a suburban area and ward in Newcastle-under-Lyme *Westland, a peninsula of the Shetland Mainland near Vaila, ...

No. 33 Squadron RAF Number 33 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Westland Puma HC.2 from RAF Benson, Oxfordshire. History First World War No. 33 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed from part of No. 12 Squadron at Filton on 12 January 1916. F ...

No. 230 Squadron RAF No. 230 Squadron is an RAF squadron, currently based at RAF Benson. The squadron was part of Royal Air Force Germany, operating the Puma HC.1 there from 1980. Following the drawdown at the end of the Cold War, the squadron disbanded on 30 April ...

RAF Regiment The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps. Founded by royal warrant in 1942, the Corps carries out soldiering tasks relating to the delivery of air power. Examples of such ta ...

* 4001 Flight RAF Regiment Members of 4001 Flt RAF Regiment became NBC team attached to the 4th Armoured Division during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Desert Sabre. *

No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack, and patrolling a large area around main operating bases abroad, in order to defend aircraft o ...

1 Squadron RAF Regiment were flown into Al Qaysumah to reinforce the base from RAF Germany. Equipped with Scorpion and Spartan armoured vehicles, they reinforced Muharraq and crossed into Iraq with 1 (BR) Armoured Division as the reconnaissance screen for the Division, ending the war astride the Kuwait-Basra highway. * No. 20 Squadron RAF Regiment 20 Squadron RAF Regiment deployed to Cyprus August 1990. One flight deployed to Muharraq late August 1990, second flight joined first in the middle of October 1990, relieved by 66 Squadron in November 1990, and returned to UK after setting up airbase defence of Muharraq. *

No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment was an RAF Regiment Field Squadron between 1951 and 2008. It was reformed in 2010 as a specialist Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Squadron initially based at RAF Honington in Suffolk. When it ...

26 Squadron RAF Regiment,

RAF Laarbruch Royal Air Force , more commonly known as RAF ICAO EDUL (from 1 January 1995 ETUL) was a Royal Air Force station, a military airfield, located in Germany on its border with the Netherlands. The Station's motto was (). The site now operates a ...

Commander Sqn Ldr Dipper. Deployed 28 November 1990 to 14 February 1991. Used to defend the airfield before Patriot was even conceived. In the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the squadron deployed to Saudi Arabia and detachments saw service at Dharan, Muharraq, and Tabuk during the war. Successfully deployed all equipment within 10 days of arrival *

No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment is a C-UAS Sqn of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is to detect, track, and ultimately disrupt and destroy unmanned airborne vehicles. The squadron's current HQ is at RAF Leeming. The motto of the ...

34 Squadron RAF Regiment deployed to Bahrain and Dahrhan in August 1990. *

No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment is a field squadron of the RAF Regiment in the Royal Air Force. Its mission is protection of RAF bases from ground attack. History The history of No. 51 Squadron goes back to 1947 when it was formed at RAF Celle ne ...

In aftermath of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the squadron deployed to Saudi Arabia, and detachments saw service at Dharan, Muharraq, and Tabuk during the war. * No. 58 Squadron RAF Regiment 58 Squadron RAF Regiment deployed from RAF Catterick in January 1991 to Bahrain to allow 1 Squadron RAF Regiment to deploy to the front. With only three days notice, those three days included all kitting and ANTHRAX jabs. * No. 66 Squadron RAF Regiment

Other RAF Units

* 4626 Aeromed Evac Squadron (Co-located with 205 Fd Hosp RAMC and in Cyprus) * United Kingdom Mobile Air Movements Squadron deployed on the first Hercules and served throughout the Gulf at all air heads and landing strips. * Joint Helicopter Support Unit deployed with the Chinook Squadrons *

Tactical Communications Wing 90 Signals Unit (90 SU) is based at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire and provides information and communication services to deployed units of the Royal Air Force. History No. 90 (Signals) Group was formed on 26 April 1946 and had its headquarters ...

Tactical Supply Wing The Tactical Supply Wing (TSW) is a helicopter support unit of the Royal Air Force, based at MOD Stafford (also known as Beacon Barracks) in Staffordshire. The wing specialises in the refuelling of helicopters in the field. History The Tact ...

Royal Navy

;Aircraft carrier * ** (deployed to the Mediterranean Sea) ;Frigates * ** ** (deployed to the Mediterranean Sea) * Type 22 frigate ** ** *** 829 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Lynx HAS.3 ** (deployed to the Mediterranean Sea) ** (Flagship) ***

815 Naval Air Squadron 815 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron flying the AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA.2 helicopter and is the Navy's front line Wildcat Naval Air Squadron. The squadron is based at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) in Somerset. The squadro ...

with the Westland Lynx HAS.3 ;Destroyers * ''Sheffield'' class ** *** 815 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Lynx HAS.3 ** *** 815 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Lynx HAS.3 ** *** 815 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Lynx HAS.2 ** *** 815 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Lynx HAS.3 ** ;Command ships * ** ** ;Mine countermeasure vessels * ;Submarines * s ** ** ; Royal Fleet Auxiliary * ** HM Royal Marines Band Commander in Chief Fleet ** 846 Naval Air Squadron with 4 x Westland Sea King HC Mk4 ** 21 (AD) Bty RA with Javelin Air Defence System * * RFA ''Fort Grange'' ** 826 with the Westland Sea King HC.5 & 846 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Sea King HC.4 * * ** 846 Naval Air Squadron with the Westland Sea King HC.4 * * * * * *

Fleet Air Arm

;Deployed to land bases *

845 Naval Air Squadron 845 Naval Air Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. Part of the Commando Helicopter Force, it is a specialist amphibious unit operating the AgustaWestland Commando Merlin HC4 helicopter and provides troop transport and load ...

with Westland Sea King HC.4s * 848 Naval Air Squadron with Westland Sea King HC.4s * 846 Naval Air Squadron with Westland Sea King HC.4s (Detached from RFA Argus)

Fleet Diving Group

* Fleet Diving Group A & B ; Embarked on RFA Sir Galahad * members of FDU1 Maritime Counter terrorist Unit and members of FDU2 Worldwide Operations Unit. * Fleet Diving Group C ; Embarked on RFA Argus * Members of Fleet Diving Unit 3, deep diving and Trials Team

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