Editing Regiment (section)

====Infantry====
Administrative [[infantry]] regiments are composed of one or more [[battalion]]s. When a regiment has only one battalion, the battalion may have exactly the same name as the regiment. For example, The [[North Saskatchewan Regiment]] is the only battalion in the administrative regiment of the same name. When there is more than one battalion, they are distinguished by numbers, subsidiary titles or both. In Britain, every infantry battalion bears a number, even if it is the only remaining battalion in the regiment (in that case it is the 1st Battalion, with the exception of [[The Irish Regiment of Canada]], which has a 2nd Battalion only). Until after the [[World War II|Second World War]], every regiment had at least two battalions. Traditionally, the regular battalions were the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the [[militia]] (later Special Reserve) battalion was the 3rd Battalion, and the [[Army Reserve (United Kingdom)|Army Reserve]] battalions were the 4th Battalion, the 5th Battalion and up. A few regiments had up to four regular battalions and more than one militia battalion, which disrupted the numbering, but this was rare. For this reason, although the regular battalion today (if there is only one) will always be the 1st Battalion, the TA battalions may have non-consecutive numbers.

In practice, it is impossible to exercise all the administrative functions of a true regiment when the regiment consists of a single unit. Soldiers, and particularly officers, cannot spend a full career in one battalion. Thus in the Armoured Corps, the traditional administrative "regiment" tends to play more of a ceremonial role, while in practice, its members are administered by their corps or "branch" as in the Artillery. Thus soldiers and officers can serve in many different "regiments", changing hat badges without too much concern during their career. Indeed, in the artillery, all regiments wear the same badge.