List of Freedom of the City recipients (military)

The Freedom of the City, in military terms, is an honour conferred by a city council upon a military unit, which grants that unit the privilege of marching into the city "with drums beating, colours flying, and bayonets fixed". The honour is usually bestowed upon local regiments, in recognition of their dedicated service, and it is common for military units to periodically exercise their freedom by arranging a parade through the city.^[1]

Australia

Adelaide, South Australia

• HMAS Adelaide
• No. 24 Squadron RAAF

Alice Springs, Northern Territory

• HMAS Arunta
• Detachment 421, United States Air Force
• No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit Royal Australian Air force ^[2]

Bendigo, Victoria

• 17th Construction Squadron Workshop: 20 October 2015.^[3]

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

• HMAS Canberra
• 2001: Royal Military College Duntroon, during that year's GMC 400.

Darwin, Northern Territory

• HMAS Darwin

Melbourne

• HMAS Melbourne
• Melbourne University Regiment ^[4]
• Defence Force School of Signals

Perth

• HMAS Perth

Sydney

• Royal Australian Navy: March 14, 2009 ^[5]
• HMAS Sydney
• 3 Wing, Australian Air Force Cadets

Maitland, New South Wales

• HMAS Maitland (ACPB 88): September 30, 2006 ^[6]

Mosman, New South Wales

• HMAS Penguin (naval base)

Newcastle, New South Wales

• HMAS Newcastle

Nowra, New South Wales

• HMAS Albatross (air station)

Port Stephens

• 130 Signals Squadron^[7]

Northam, Western Australia

• 10th Light Horse Regiment: 1979 ^[8]

New Zealand

Otago

Dunedin

• Otago and Southland Regiment.
• 2nd/4th Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment: 27 September 2016. ^[9]

Canada

Alberta

Airdrie

• Calgary Highlanders

Banff

• 41 Signal Regiment
• Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre (formerly BNACC)

Canmore

• 878 Banff/Canmore Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron

Calgary

• Calgary Highlanders: 1956
• 1st Battalion The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada: 11 June 1960
• King's Own Calgary Regiment
• Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
• HMCS Calgary
• 4 Wing Cold Lake: May 11, 1999 ^[10]
• HMCS Tecumseh
• 41 Signal Regiment
• 14 (Calgary) Service Battalion
• 52 City of Calgary Air Cadets
• 538 Buffalo Squadron
• 22 RCSCC Undaunted

Cold Lake

• 4 Wing Cold Lake: August 27, 2004 ^[11]

Edmonton

• The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)
• 15 (Edmonton) Service Battalion: 3 June 1995.
• Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: 10 August 2014. (on occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Regiment)
• HMCS Nonsuch

High River

• 187 Foothills Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets: 22 September 2016. ^[12]

Medicine Hat

• South Alberta Light Horse: October 2005.^[13]

Red Deer

• 41 Signal Regiment

St. Albert

• Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians): 11 June 2011.^[14]

Vegreville

• 41 Combat Engineer Regiment: 29 April 2006.

British Columbia

Courtenay

• CFB Comox: March 1996.
• The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's): October 1996.
• HMCS Quadra: August 2008.

^[15]

• The Royal Canadian Legion (Courtenay Branch).^[16]

Kelowna

• British Columbia Dragoons: 11 February 1963 ^[17]

Nanaimo

• South Alberta Regiment: April 1941.^[18]
• Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's): 5 October 1974.
• Le Régiment de Hull: May 1943. Le Régiment de Hull was the first French speaking unit to be posted to the West Coast. It so worried the residents that they doubled their police force. The residents and the Regiment soon broke the linguistic barrier and formed a bond of friendship, often playing in softball tournaments and learning French-Canadien folk songs.
• HMCS Nanaimo, RCN: March 1997.^[18]

New Westminster

• Royal Westminster Regiment, then called the Westminster Regiment: 24 May 1963.^[19]
• HMCS Discovery, RCN: 3 October 2010.

Pitt Meadows

• The Royal Westminster Regiment: 22 September 2012.^[20][21]

Prince George

• The Rocky Mountain Rangers
• The Royal Canadian Army Cadets

^[22]

Richmond

• 12 (Vancouver) Service Company, then called 12 Service Battalion: 17 April 1993.
• 39 Service Battalion: 13 April 2014.

Saanich

• 11 (Victoria) Service Company, then called 11 Service Battalion: April 1994.
• 11 (Victoria) Field Ambulance, then called 11 (Victoria) Medical Company: September 1994.
• 39 Service Battalion: 2 May 2014.^[23]

Vancouver

• HMCS Discovery, RCN: 13 February 1973.
• 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 6 December 1977.
• Seaforth Highlanders of Canada: 6 December 1977.^[24]
• British Columbia Regiment: 26 April 1983.^[24]
• 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance: 14 April 2007.
• Vancouver Police Pipe Band: 23 January 2014.^[25]

Vernon

• Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre: 4 August 1979 ^[26]
• British Columbia Dragoons: 10 May 2008 ^[27]

Victoria

• 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: 15 June 1974 ^[28]
• HMCS Malahat ^[28]
• Maritime Forces Pacific:^[28] 4 May 2010.^[29]
• 5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment, RCA:^[28] 4 November 1979.
• 2nd Battalion The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada:^[28]
• The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's):^[28] 6 June 1964 ^[30]
• Royal Roads Military College ^[28]

Manitoba

Brandon

• 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: 22 May 2012.^[31]

Winnipeg

• 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: 1989.^[32]
• HMCS Chippawa: 5 May 1985.^[32]
• Royal Winnipeg Rifles: 4 June 1983.^[32]
• CFB Winnipeg: October 1992. ^[33]

New Brunswick

Dorchester

• Correctional Service of Canada: 27 July 2015.^[34]

Fredericton

• 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York): 1991 ^[35]
• Royal Canadian Regiment: 2 June 1973 ^[36]

Moncton

• The Royal Canadian Regiment.^[37]

St. John

• The Royal Canadian Regiment.^[37]

Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's

• HMS Newfoundland, RN: 16 May 1944.
• Royal Newfoundland Regiment: 1 July 1963.
• HMCS Cabot, RCN: 24 April 1985.
• HMCS St. John's, RCN: 22 June 1996.
• Royal Canadian Regiment: 19 June 2005.^[38]
• 56 Engineer Squadron: 31 October 2009.
• Royal Newfoundland Constabulary: 18 August 2010 ^[38]

^[39]

North West Territories

Yellowknife

• HMCS Yellowknife, RCN: 18 June 1999.

Nova Scotia

Halifax

• 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot: 1999. (Exercised Annually) ^[40]
• The Princess Louise Fusiliers.
• Maritime Forces Atlantic.
• The Royal Canadian Regiment.^[37]

Ontario

Barrie

• CFB Borden: 5 June 2016.^[41]

Belleville

• 8 Wing CFB Trenton: 1978.^[42]
• RCSCC Quinte 58: 2013.

Brampton

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1969.

Brantford

• 56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 1 October 1966. ^{[43] [44]}

Brockville

• The Brockville Rifles: 1 October 2016.

Cobourg

• Royal Canadian Horse Artillery: 1987.

Collingwood

• The Canadian Forces Military Police Academy: 21 June 2014.^[45]

Dufferin County

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1981.

Durham

• The Ontario Regiment: 1979 ^[46]

Guelph

• 11th Field Regiment, RCA: 1966. ^{[47] [48]}

Halton Hills

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1987.

Hamilton

• HMCS Star, RCN
• Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
• Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
• 705 (Hamilton) Communication Squadron: 25 July 1978.^[49]
• 31 Signal Regiment: 21 April 2012.^[50]

Kingston

• Royal Military College of Canada: 7 October 1976. (Freedom Exercised on 6 May 2012 and 5 May 2013) ^[51][52][53]
• HMCS Cataraqui
• Princess of Wales' Own Regiment: 1963. (Exercised on 4 May 2013)^[54]
• 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery: 1983. (Exercised in 1996 and 26 May 2012) ^[55]
• Communications and Electronics Branch: 31 August 2003.^[56]
• 58 A/C A. Dwight Ross, GC, CBE, CD Royal Canadian Air Cadets, 28 May 2016.

London

• 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1980.^[57]

Markham

• Button's Troop The Governor General's Horse Guards: 2 October 2010.
• 351 Silver Star Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron: 27 May 2012.
• 883 Air Commodore Leonard Birchall Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron: 27 May 2012.

Milton

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 2009.

Mississauga

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 2 July 2014.^[58]
• The Toronto Scottish Regiment: 20 September 2014.^[59]

Oakville

• The Lorne Scots Regiment : 1984.

Oshawa

• The Ontario Regiment: 1966.^[46]

Ottawa

• 14th Battalion of Kingston: 1894.
• 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1953.
• 2nd Battalion The Canadian Guards: 1964.
• 30th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: 1968.
• The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa: 24 May 1969.^[60]
• Governor General's Foot Guards: 1972.
• 3rd Field Engineer Squadron: 1977.
• 763 (Ottawa) Communications Regiment: 1978.
• The Canadian Grenadier Guards: 1979.
• HMCS Carleton, RCN: 1980.
• 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards: 1981.
• 28th Service Battalion: 1981.
• Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: 1985.
• Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps “Falkland”: 1995.
• HMCS Ottawa, RCN: 1996.
• 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment: 1999.
• 26/28 Service Battalion: 2009.
• 33 Canadian Brigade Group: 2013.
• 51 Squadron Aviation and Space Museum (RCAC): 19 June 2016.

^[61]

Sault Ste. Marie

• 49th (Sault Ste Marie) Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery: 1 July 1967.
• 31 Service Battalion: 26 September 1987.

Timmins

• The Algonquin Regiment: 22 September 1977 (exercised on 22 September 2012) ^[62]

Toronto

• 3rd Battalion The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada: 1948 (Exercised in 1969).
• The Toronto Scottish Regiment.
• The 48th Highlanders of Canada.
• HMCS Toronto
• Toronto Squadron 32 Signals Regiment: 1978 (Exercised in 1987).^[63]
• 2nd Field Engineer Regiment: 1984.
• 9th Royal Canadian Artillery

Trenton

• Trenton Air Cadet Summer Training Centre.
• 704 Airforce City Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron.

Uxbridge

• UNICEF Team Canada: 2008.^[64]

Waterloo

• 31 Combat Engineer Regiment ^[65]

Windsor

• The Windsor Regiment: 1940. ^[66]

Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown

• HMCS Charlottetown, RCN: 2015.^[67]
• The Royal Canadian Regiment.^[37]

Quebec

Gatineau

• Le Régiment de Hull.

Granby

• Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

Huntingdon

• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1998.^[68]

Matane

• Les Fusiliers du S^t-Laurent: 1985.

Mont-Joli

• Les Fusiliers du S^t-Laurent: 22 August 2010.^[69]

Montreal

• Canadian Grenadier Guards
• Le Régiment de Maisonneuve
• 3rd Field Engineer Regiment (34 CER)
• The Royal Canadian Hussars
• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: August 1992 ^[68]
• 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
• HMCS Montreal

Ormstown

• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1997 ^[68]

Quebec City

• Royal 22^e Régiment:

1975 (Exercised 3 July 2006).^[70]

• HMCS Montcalm: 6 May 1995.
• 5^e Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada: 25 September 2004.^[71]

Rivière-du-Loup

• Les Fusiliers du S^t-Laurent: 1991.

Rimouski

• Les Fusiliers du S^t-Laurent: 1984.

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

• Royal Military College Saint-Jean: 1 October 1977. (Exercised 1992, 1995, and 22 April 2012)

^[72]

Sayabec

• Les Fusiliers du S^t-Laurent.

Sherbrooke

• Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
• Sherbrooke Hussars

Verdun

• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: Fall 1999.^[68]

Saskatchewan

Moose Jaw

• 15 Wing Moose Jaw: 1978.^[73]

Regina

• HMCS Queen, Royal Canadian Navy: 1978.
• 734 Communication Squadron, Royal Canadian Corp of Signals: 1978.
• HMCS Regina: 1996.
• Royal Regina Rifles: 2 June 2007.^[74][75]
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police: 25 May 2007.^[75]
• 38 Service Battalion: 12 September 2015.
• 10 Field Artillery Regiment: 12 September 2015.^[76]
• 16 Field Ambulance: 12 September 2015.
• 15 Wing Moose Jaw: 12 September 2015.
• 38 Signal Regiment Detachment Regina: 12 September 2015.^[76][77]

Saskatoon

• HMCS Unicorn: 1983.^[78]

Yukon

Whitehorse

• Whitehorse Cadet Summer Training Centre: 24 July 2009.^[79]

Belgium

Herentals

Ordanance Depot Antwerp 1987

Rhodesia

Bulawayo

• Rhodesian African Rifles: September 5, 1964 ^[80]
• Royal Rhodesia Regiment: September 5, 1964 ^[80]

Salisbury

• Rhodesia Regiment: July 1968
• Rhodesian Air Force: May 25, 1971 ^[81]
• Rhodesian Light Infantry: July 25, 1975 ^[82]

Marandellas

• 1st Field Regiment, Rhodesia Artillery (Southern Rhodesia Artillery): Saturday, 17 May 1975

United Kingdom

England

Abingdon

• RAF Abingdon: 1953.
• The Royal Logistic Corps: 2006.^[83]

Aldeburgh

• 3 Regiment Army Air Corps: 23 June 2012.^[84][85]

Aldershot

• The Hampshire Regiment: 11 September 1945.
• The Canadian Army Overseas: 26 September 1945.

^[86]

• The Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps: 27 June 1973.
• The Royal Army Medical Corps: 27 June 1973.
• The Royal Army Dental Corps: 27 June 1973.

^[87]

Amber Valley

• The Mercian Regiment: 26 January 2010.^[88]

Ashford

• The Intelligence Corps: 16 May 1979^[89]
• The Queen's Regiment: 13 June 1987^[89]
• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 9 September 1992^[89]
• 133 Field Company REME (V): 7 May 2009^[89]

Barking and Dagenham

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: February 2010.^[90][91]

Barnsley

• The Light Dragoons
• The Yorkshire Regiment

^[92]

Barrow-in-Furness

• Royal Navy Submarine Service: 2001.^[93]
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

Basildon

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 9, 2011 ^[94]

Bath

• 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support): November 2011 ^[95]

Bedford

• RAF Cardington: 16 July 1959.^[96]

Berwick-upon-Tweed

• Coldstream Guards: 25 July 2000.^[97]

Birmingham

• Grenadier Guards ^[98]
• Coldstream Guards ^[98]
• Scots Guards ^[98]
• Welsh Guards ^[98]
• Irish Guards ^[98]
• Special Air Service^[99]

Blackpool

• The 12th Regiment Royal Artillery: 9 July 2005. ^[100]

Bordon

• The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 27 June 2015.^[101]

Boroughbridge

• 9 Regiment Army Air Corps: 2 May 1992.^[85][102]

Boston

• RAF Coningsby: 16 May 1963.^[103]

Bradford

• The Yorkshire Regiment: June 25, 2010 ^[104]

Brentwood

• 124 (Essex) Transport Squadron, RLC: 2015. ^[105]

Bridgnorth

• RAF Bridgnorth: 12 April 1950.^[106][107]

Brighton and Hove

• The Royal Sussex Regiment: 27 October 1944 (Borough of Brighton).
• The Queen's Regiment: 31 December 1966 (Borough of Brighton).

^[108]

• The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 1996.^[109]

Bristol

• The Rifles 2007^[110]

Burghfield

• The Royal British Legion: 18 June 2013.^[111]

Bury St. Edmunds

• HMS Vengeance, Royal Navy

Cambridge

• No. 104 (City of Cambridge) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1999.^[112]

Cannock Chase

• The Mercian Regiment: 7 November 2012.^[113]

Canterbury

• The Royal Regiment of Scotland: November 27, 2008 ^[114]

Carterton

• RAF Brize Norton: 21 April 2016.^[115]

Charnwood

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: September 2006.
• The 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment: April 2010.
• The Royal Logistic Corps: April 2010.

^[116]

Cheltenham

• Central Flying School, RAF: 2 May 1962.
• RAF Innsworth: October 1986.

^[117]

Cheshire East

• The Mercian Regiment: 27 May 2010.^[118]

Cheshire West and Chester

• The Mercian Regiment: July 2008.

^[119]

Chester

• 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh
• HMS Albion

Chesterfield

• The Mercian Regiment: December 2007.^[120]

Chichester

• Royal Sussex Regiment and its respective successors, the Queen's Royal Regiment and the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: June 30, 1951 ^[121][122]
• RAF Tangmere, a Royal Air Force station which played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain: 1960

Chippenham

• RAF Rudloe Manor: 1992.
• Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment: 1994.
• 9 Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps: 19 January 2012.
• 1st Battalion The Rifles: 19 January 2012.

^[123][124]

Chorley

• 3 Medical Regiment: 6 June 2015 ^[125]

Christchurch

• Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
• The Rifles: 1 May 2008.^[126]

Colchester

• 16 Air Assault Brigade: February 2008. ^[127]

Copeland

• Army Cadet Force: 27 June 2010.
• Sea Cadet Corps: 27 June 2010.
• Air Training Corps: 27 June 2010.

^[128]

Corby

• Royal Anglian Regiment: May 3, 2012 ^[129]

Corsham

• Ministry of Defence Corsham: 26 June 2010.^[130]

Cotswold

• 29 Regiment RLC: 10 March 2005.^[131]

Coventry

• HMS Diamond Royal Navy: 16 October 2014.^[132]

Crewe

• 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 19 February 2015.^[133]

^[134]

Crewe and Nantwich

• 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire)

Dacorum

• RAF Halton: 2009.^[135]
• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 24 September 2014 ^[136]

Darlington

• The Light Infantry: 1996.
• The Rifles: 17 Sep 2010.^[137]

Derby

• The Royal Navy Submarine Service.

Diss

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 7 November 2012.^[138][139]

Dudley

• Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry (TA): 30 June 2012.^[140]

Ealing

• 562 (Transport) Squadron 151 (London) Transport Regiment: 16 April 2013 ^[141]

Eastleigh

• The Royal Hampshire Regiment: September 1991.
• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: September 1992.

^[142]

Ellesmere Port and Neston

• The Cheshire Regiment: June 1986.^[119]
• The Mercian Regiment: 2007. ^[143]

Ely

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 11, 2011 ^[144]

Epsom

• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 2010 ^[145]

Exeter

• The Royal Marines: April 1977
• 243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital (V): July 2002
• The Rifles (formerly The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment): June 2007
• The Coldstream Guards: July 2011 ^[146]
• RAF Brize Norton: July 2013
• HMS Defender, Royal Navy: March 2014

^[147]

Falmouth

• RFA Mounts Bay, Royal Fleet Auxiliary: 25 April 2007.^[148][149]

Fareham

• HMS Collingwood: 2 July 1974.^[150]

Gateshead

• 72 Engineer Regiment: 2011.^[151]

Gillingham, Dorset

• Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 1998^[152]
• The Rifles: 2007^[152]
• Gillingham Platoon of the Dorset Army Cadet Force: 2010^[152]

Gillingham, Kent

• The Royal Engineers: 21 August 1953.^[153]

Gloucester

• The Rifles ^[154]

Gravesend

• The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment ^[155]

Great Yarmouth

• The Royal British Legion (Great Yarmouth Branch): 2 November 2012.^[156]
• HMS Dauntless, RN: 11 June 2013.^[157]

Greenwich

• The Royal Regiment of Artillery: 24 May 1966
• The Royal Naval College: 24 May 1966^[158][159]

Guildford

• Queen's Royal Regiment: September 1945.
• Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment: 1959.
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 1992.

^[160]

Hackney

• 3 Military Intelligence Battalion (Volunteers): 2008 ^[161]

Hammersmith and Fulham

• The Royal Yeomanry (TA): 26 January 2011.^[162]

Harborough

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 7 April 2011.^[163]

Harlow

• The Essex Yeomanry: 25 April 2009 ^[164]
• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 27 September 2012.^[165]

Harpenden

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 12 September 2013.^[166][167]

Harrow

• 131 Independent Commando Squadron, Corps of Royal Engineers (Volunteers): 10 March 1983.
• 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment Royal Corps of Signals: 10 March 1983.
• 257 (Southern) General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): 10 March 1983.
• RAF Stanmore Park: 20 October 1988.
• RAF Bentley Priory: 20 October 1988.
• Royal British Legion (Harrow Branch): 18 July 1996.
• 1454 (Harrow) Squadron Air Training Corps: 1 May 2014.

^[168]

Hartlepool

• The Rifles: 19 March 2015.^[169]

Haslingden

• The Queen's Lancashire Regiment: 1964.
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 2006.

^[170]

Havant

• 47th Regiment Royal Artillery: 3 July 2012.^[171]

Havering

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: Was in place as of September 2014.^[172]

Helston

• HMS Seahawk, RN: 1958. ^[173]

High Peak

• The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1974.
• The Mercian Regiment: 10 December 2007.^[174]

High Wycombe

• 7th Battalion The Rifles (TA): 9 June 2013. ^[175]

Hillingdon

• RAF Uxbridge: 1960.
• RAF Northolt: 2000.
• 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron: 2007.

^[176]

Hounslow

• 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 2009.^[177]

Hunstanton

• 67th Special Operations Squadron, USAF: 4 October 2014.^[178]

Ipswich

• HMS Quorn: February 6, 2011 ^[179]
• The Royal Anglian Regiment: September 2011 ^[179]
• 4 Regiment Army Air Corps: 22 March 2002.^[85]
• 202 (Ipswich) Transport Squadron 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment (Volunteers)

^[180]

Isle of Wight

• Isle of Wight Troop 266 Port Squadron 165 Port and Maritime Regiment Royal Logistic Corps: 28 November 2015.^[181]

Islington

• The Honourable Artillery Company: October 2009 ^[182]
• The Islington Veterans' Association: March 2015.^[183]

Kettering

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 14 December 2011.^[184]

Kidderminster

• The Mercian Regiment: 30 November 2014.^[185]

King's Lynn and West Norfolk

• RAF Marham: 1981.^[186]
• The Royal Anglian Regiment.
• 42F (King’s Lynn) Squadron Air Training Corps: 11 October 2014.^[187]
• 67th Special Operations Squadron USAF: 4 October 2014.^[188]

Kingston upon Thames

• The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
• 256 (City of London) Field Hospital (Volunteers): March 2009 ^[189]

Kirklees

• 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Volunteers: 25 March 1979.
• 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2008.

Knowsley

• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment ^[190]

Lancaster

• King's Own Royal Regiment: August 29, 1953 ^[191]

Ledbury

• HMS Ledbury, Royal Navy: 2007.^[192][193]

Leicester

• 9th/12th Royal Lancers ^[194]

Lewisham

• 1475 (Dulwich) Squadron Air Training Corps (Date unknown)

Lichfield

• The Staffordshire Regiment: 7 November 1960.
• 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 2007.
• The Depot, The Prince of Wales' Division, Lichfield: 25 April 1981.
• The Army Training Regiment, Lichfield: 12 April 2000.
• The Joint Medical Command, Whittington Barracks: 12 September 2011.

^[195]

• DMS Whittington: 28 September 2016. ^[196]

Lincoln

• RAF Waddington: 1959.
• RAF Scampton: 1993.

^[197]

• The Grenadier Guards: 8 May 2008.^[198]

Littlehampton

• 30 Commando, Royal Marines: 5 October 2013.^[199][200]

Liverpool

• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 14 September 2008.^[201]
• War Widows Association (Merseyside Branch): 1 December 2014.^[202]

City of London

Freedom of the City of London is a status into which only persons are admitted. The following units of HM Forces hold City Privileged Regiment status and consequently have the right to march through the City of London with drums beating, bayonets fixed and colours unfurled. Military units honoured in this fashion may only enter the City when the permission of the Lord Mayor of London has been sought and granted. All military units entering the City of London do so by permission of the Lord Mayor, they do not have 'the Freedom' even if they hold City Privileged Regiment status. Her Majesty's forces have no general right of entry to the City unless the Lord Mayor has granted permission. A civic officer going by the title of the City Marshal escorts all military units of HM Forces through the City.

• HMS Westminster: December 11, 2005 ^[203]
• The Royal Marines: 1924 ^[204]
• The Honourable Artillery Company: 1924 ^[205]
• The Grenadier Guards: October 1915 ^[198]
• City of London Imperial Volunteers: 12 January 1901^[206]
• The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment): 1672 ^[207]
• The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: October 13, 1924 ^[208]
• Parachute Regiment ^[209]
• 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF ^[210]
• 1475 (Dulwich) Squadron ATC, 2015^[211]

Loughborough

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 19, 2007 ^[212]

Malmesbury

• 9 Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps: 29 June 2010.^[213]

Manchester

• 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): October 2011 ^[214]

March

• 1996: Air Training Corps
• 2001: Army Cadet Force

^[215]

Maryport

• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment 20 May 2015^[216]

Medway

• The Royal Corps of Engineers: 17 January 2008.^[217]
• HMS Chatham, Royal Navy: 12 February 2011.^[218]

Melksham

• 2385 (Melksham) Squadron Air Training Corps: 12 May 2012.^[219]

Melton

• The Defence Animal Centre: 1977.
• HMS Quorn, Royal Navy: 18 March 2007.

^[220]

Merton, Devon

• The Coldstream Guards: 5 July 2011 ^[221]

Middlesbrough

• The Green Howards: 13 May 1944.
• The 34th (Northern) Signal Regiment (Volunteers): 29 April 1972.
• HMS Marlborough, Royal Navy: 15 March 2000.
• The Yorkshire Regiment: 25 October 2006.

^[222]

Mole Valley

• Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court: 25 May 2010.^[223]

Newcastle-under-Lyme

• The Staffordshire Regiment: 1973.^[224]

Northampton

• 9th/12th Royal Lancers: 5 November 2012.^[225]

North East Lincolnshire

• 45 Commando Royal Marines: 16 May 2015.^[226]

North Tyneside

• Royal British Legion (Whitley Bay and Forest Hall Branches): 15 October 2009.^[227]
• 2344 (Longbenton) Squadron Royal Air Force Air Cadets: 16 December 2014.^[228]

Northumberland

• 39th Regiment Royal Artillery: 3 September 2005.^[229]
• RAF Boulmer: 24 September 2010.^[230]

Norwich

• 1st East Anglian Regiment: 1964.
• 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment: 1984.^[231]
• RAF Marham: 2008.

Nottingham

• The Sherwood Foresters: 1945.
• The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1970.
• The Mercian Regiment: 15 October 2007.^[232]
• 73rd Engineer Regiment (Volunteers) ^[233]
• East Midlands Universities Air Squadron: June 2011 ^[234]
• E Battery Royal Horse Artillery: 20 January 2014 ^[235]

Nuneaton and Bedworth

• Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Artillery: 1972.
• 30th Signal Regiment: 2002.
• 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 12 September 2010.

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Oadby and Wigston

• B Squadron Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry , Royal Yeomanry: April 17, 2012 ^[237][238]

Oakham

• 16 Regiment Royal Artillery^[239]

Oldham

• 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment (TA): 3 March 1954.
• 75 Engineer Regiment (Volunteers): 13 June 1999

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Oxford

• Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: 1 October 1945.
• 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd): 7 November 1958.
• Royal Green Jackets: 1 January 1966.
• The Rifles: 1 February 2007.

^[241]

Oxfordshire

• 4624 (County of Oxford) Movements Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force: May 2013.^[242][243]

Peterborough

• RAF Wittering: 1983. ^[244]
• 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers) ^[245]

Plymouth

• The Royal Naval Reserve
• The Merchant Navy: March 22, 2009
• The Rifles: September 25, 2010 ^[246]

Poole

• The Rifles: 19 March 2010.^[247]

Portsmouth

• Portsmouth Command of the Royal Navy: 1965 ^[248]
• HMS King Alfred: 2003 ^[248]
• HMS Endurance: 2007 ^[248]
• The Royal Marines: 1959 ^[248]

Preston

• The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire): August 7, 1952 (This was subsequently transferred to:)
  • The Queen's Lancashire Regiment: September 9, 1972 ^[249]
  • The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: July 1, 2006
• The 14th/20th King's Hussars: 6 November 1992.^[250]
• The Kings Royal Hussars^[251]

Purbeck

• Bovington Camp: 2010.^[252]

Reading

• The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment: 1960.
• The Rifles: 8 May 2016.^[253]

Redbridge

• 36 (Eastern) Signal Regiment: 1967.^[254]

Redditch

• The Mercian Regiment: 20 May 2009.^[255]
• 37 Signal Regiment: 28 June 2014.^[256]

Ribble Valley

• Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: March 10, 2011 ^[257]

Richmond

• The Yorkshire Regiment
• The Royal Corps of Signals
• HMS Richmond, Royal Navy
• The RAF Regiment
• 150 Provost Company Royal Military Police
• 1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers in 2012.
• The Royal British Legion in 2013.

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Richmond upon Thames

• The HMS Richmond 2002 ^[259]
• The Royal Military School of Music 2007 ^[259]

Ripon

• The Royal Engineers: July 27, 1949 ^[260]

Romsey

• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment inherited the Freedom from the Royal Hampshire Regiment as a result of the 1992 Options for Change merger with the Queen's Regiment.^[261]

Rossendale

• Queen's Lancashire Regiment: June 2004.

Runnymede

• 94 Signal Squadron Berkshire Yeomanry: 25 July 2009.^[262]

Rushcliffe

• RAF Newton: 1984 ^[263][264]

Rushmoor, Hampshire

• The Royal Army Physical Training Corps: 17 September 2011.^[265]
• The Royal Gurkha Rifles: 30 July 2015 ^[266][267]

Salford

• Lancashire Fusiliers: September 3, 1947 ^[268]

Salisbury

• Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: October 2004.^[269]
• The Rifles: 20 November 2010.^[270]

Sandbach

• The Mercian Regiment: 29 June 2014 ^[271]

Sandwell

• The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment - Oldbury
• 210 (Staffordshire) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers) - West Bromwich
• 237 Transport Squadron, The Royal Army Logistics Corps (Volunteer) - West Bromwich
• Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers - Rowley Regis and Smethwick
• 3rd Battalion of The Mercian Regiment – Sandwell
• 116 Royal Military Police Company TA (West Bromwich) - Sandwell^[272]

Scarborough

• 64 Medical Squadron 5 Medical Regiment: 2007.
• 3 Medical Regiment: May 2015.^[273]
• The Yorkshire Regiment

Sefton

• 238 (Sefton) Squadron 156 Regiment Royal Corps of Transport: 6 March 1982.
• 238 (Sefton) Squadron 156 (North-West) Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers): 13 April 2002.
• RAF Woodvale: 3 July 2011.

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Shoreham

• HMS Shoreham, Royal Navy: 17 February 2011.^[275]

Snaith and Cowick

• 51 Squadron, RAF: 13 May 2013.^[276]

South Tyneside

• HMS Euryalus, Royal Navy: 1981.
• 205 (3rd Durham Volunteer Artillery) Battery Royal Artillery: 2007.

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Southwark

• 256 (City of London) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 30 June 2013.
• The Royal Marines Reserve (City of London): 30 June 2013.
• D Company The London Regiment: 30 June 2013.
• 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

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Stafford

• 22 Signal Regiment.
• Tactical Supply Wing RAF.
• 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.
• HMS Collingwood, RN.
• Staffordshire Police.
• Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.

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St Albans

• HMS St Albans, RN: 18 June 2004.^[280]
• 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Parachute Battery RA (V): 8 July 2012.^[281]

St Edmundsbury, East Anglia

• United States 3rd Air Force: June 2004. ^[282]
• 677 Squadron Army Air Corps (Volunteers): 12 December 2006.^[85]
• 3 Regiment Army Air Corps (Wattisham): 22 June 2010.^[85]

St Neots

• The Royal Anglian Regiment: 5 July 2014.
• 423d Air Base Group, USAF: 5 July 2014.^{[283][284][285][286]}

Stockport

• 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: November 11, 2010 ^[287]

Stowmarket

• Wattisham Airfield: 26 March 2010.^[85]

Sunderland

• 463 (mixed) Heavy Anti - Aircraft Regiment: 10 October 1951.
• The Durham Light Infantry: 10 October 1951.
• 582 Light Anti - Aircraft Searchlight Regiment: 10 October 1951.
• 4th Regiment Royal Artillery: 19 December 1973.
• 251 (Sunderland) Field Ambulance RAMC (V): 24 April 1985.
• HMS Arrow, RN: 14 October 1989.
• HMS Ocean, RN: 26 July 2004.^[288]
• The Rifles: 10 September 2010.^[288]

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Surrey Heath

• Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: 20 January 2014.^[290]

Swindon

• The Wiltshire Regiment: 1960.
• RAF Lyneham: 1964.^[291]
• The Rifles: 9 April 2016.^[292]

Tameside

• The King's Regiment: 22 October 1994 ^[293]
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: April 17, 2007 ^[294]
• The Mercian Regiment: 21 May 2013 ^[293]

Tamworth

• Tamworth and Wilnecote Unit St. John Ambulance: 25 September 2015.
• Royal British Legion: 2014.
• Royal Naval Association: 2014.
• Mercian Regimental Association: 2014.
• Royal Air Force Association: 2014.

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Taunton Deane

• The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry: 30 September 1961. (Borough of Taunton) ^[296]
• 40 Commando, RM: 2003.^[297]
• The Light Infantry ^[298]

Telford and Wrekin

• The Rifles: May 29, 2010 ^[299]

Test Valley

• School of Army Aviation: 25 September 1987.^[85]

Tewkesbury

• Allied Rapid Reaction Corps: 17 September 2012.
• Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Support Battalion: 17 September 2012.

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Thatcham

• The Royal School of Military Survey: 2011.^[301]

Tonbridge

• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment ^[302]

Torbay

• HMS Torbay: 20 May 2015.^[303]

Trowbridge

• 14th Regiment Royal Artillery: 28 June 2014.^[304][305]

Tunbridge Wells

• 579 Field Squadron (EOD)(V): 18 October 2008.^[306]
• Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 15 July 2013.^[307]

Ulverston

• 2223 (Ulverston) Squadron Air Training Corps: 18 April 2015.^[308]

Uppingham

• 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment: 3 May 2016.^[309]

Uttlesford

• 101 Engineer Regiment: 14 October 2011.^[310]

Vale of White Horse

• 3 Regiment RLC: 11 May 2016.
• 4 Regiment RLC: 11 May 2016.
• The Rifles: 11 May 2016.

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Wakefield

• The Yorkshire Regiment: March 13, 2010 ^[312]
• The Rifles: September 11, 2010 ^[313]

Wallingford

• RAF Benson: 1957.^[314][315]

Walsall

• The South Staffordshire Regiment: 1946.
• The Staffordshire Regiment: 1959.
• The Mercian Regiment: 2007.^[316]

Wantage

• The Scots Guards: 2 August 2010.^[317]

Warwick

• The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 26 November 2013.^[318]

Warwickshire

• Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: 28 March 2014.^[319]

Waverley

• 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 15 June 2011. ^[320]

West Lancashire

• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 22 October 2011.^[321]

Weston-super-Mare

• 40 Commando, Royal Marines: 21 June 2014.^[322][323]

Weymouth and Portland

• HMS Portland: 2009.^[324]

Wigan

• D Squadron (TA Reserve) Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry 27 February 2008 ^[325]

Wimborne Minster

• The Rifles: 2010.^[326]

Wincanton

• 1st Regiment Army Air Corps: 26 May 2016.^[327]

Winchester

• The Royal Army Pay Corps: 1970
• The Adjutant General's Corps: 1996 ^[328]
• Winchester Army Training Regiment: April 17, 2004 ^[329]
• Kings Royal Hussars^[330]

Windsor and Maidenhead

• The Royal Berkshire Regiment: 1959^[331]
• The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment: 1960^[331]
• The Household Cavalry: 1965^[331]
• The Brigade of Guards: 1968^[331]
• The Berkshire Yeomanry: 1993^[331]
• The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: 1999^[331]
• The Rifles: 2006^[331]

Wirral

• The Cheshire Regiment: 1996.
• The Royal Marines: 1998.
• The Mercian Regiment: 2009.
• 234 (Wirral) Transport Squadron, RLC (Volunteers): 18 February 2012.
• 107 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Field Squadron (Volunteers): 18 February 2012.

^[332][333]

• HMS Astute, RN: 6 July 2015.
• Wallasey Sea Cadet Corps: 6 July 2015.

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Wokingham

• The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 21 October 1978.^[336]

Wolverhampton

• Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering, DCAE Cosford ^[337]
• The Staffordshire Regiment ^[337]
• 210 (Staffordshire) Battery 106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery ^[337]
• West Midlands Fire Service ^[337]

Woodbridge

• 23 Parachute Engineer Regiment: 2011.^[338]
• The Royal Air Force: 11 June 2016.
• The Royal British Legion (Woodbridge Branch): 11 June 2016.^[339]

Woolwich

• The Royal Artillery: 28 March 1954. ^{[340] [341] [342]}

Worcester

• The Worcestershire Regiment: 15 April 1950.
• The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment: 1970.
• The Mercian Regiment: 1 September 2007.^[343]

Worthing

• The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: July 4, 1949 ^[344]

Wychavon

• The Mercian Regiment: 29 March 2011.^[345]

Wycombe

• RAF High Wycombe: April 2011.^[346]

Yeovil

• RNAS Yeovilton: 1962^[347]

York

• Queen's Gurkha Signals: 8 September 2015.^[348][349]
• The Royal Dragoon Guards: April 24, 1999 ^[350]
• RAF Linton on Ouse

Scotland

Aberdeen

• Royal Regiment of Scotland ^[351]

Angus

• The Black Watch Regiment: 2006.^[352]

Glasgow

• The Highland Light Infantry ^[353]
• Royal Marines: 1 November 2014 ^[354]

Kirkcaldy

• The Black Watch Regiment: March 1996.^[355]

South Ayrshire

• A Squadron Queen's Own Yeomanry ^[356]
• HMS Gannet, Royal Navy: 17 July 2009.
• RAF Prestwick: 17 July 2009.

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Wales

Anglesey

• RAF Valley: 1974.^[358]

Bangor

• The Royal Welsh: July 23, 2011 ^[359]

Brecon

• The South Wales Borderers: 11 June 1948.^[360]

Bridgend

• The Royal Welsh: 30 August 2008.
• The Welsh Guards: 11 May 2011.

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Caernarfon

• The Royal Welch Fusiliers: 1946.
• The Royal Welsh: 25 April 2009. ^[362]

Caerphilly

• The Royal Welsh: 26 September 2010.^{[363][364][365]}

Chepstow

• 1st Battalion The Rifles: 17 November 2011.^[366]

Flintshire

• The Royal Welsh: 24 April 2009. ^[367]

Haverfordwest

• HMS Goldcrest: 1964.
• 14 Signal Regiment: 4 March 2009. ^[368]

Monmouth

• HMS Monmouth, Royal Navy: 18 January 2004.^[369]

Pencoed

• 2426 (Pencoed) Squadron Air Training Corps: 4 December 2014.^[370]

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• The Royal Welsh: 2010. ^[371]

Swansea

• 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards: 2009 ^[372]
• 215 (City of Swansea) Squadron, Air Training Corps: 12 March 2016.^[373]

Torfaen

• Royal Welsh: 5 June 2010.^[374]

Vale of Glamorgan

• HMS Cambria, Royal Navy: 31 March 2012.^[375]

Wrexham

• 101 Force Support Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: 5 April 2013.^[376][377]
• The Welsh Guards: 18 July 2014.^[378]

Northern Ireland

Bangor

• The Police Service of Northern Ireland: 25 March 2012. ^[379]

Castlereagh

• The Ulster Defence Regiment: 1984.
• The Ulster Special Constabulary Association: 1992.
• The Regimental Association of the Ulster Defence Regiment: 1994.
• The Royal Irish Regiment: 1995.
• The Royal British Legion: 1996.
• The 204 (North Irish) Field Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers): 1998.
• The Royal Ulster Constabulary GC: 2000.
• The Northern Ireland Prison Service: 2004.
• The 152 (North Irish) Regiment RLC (Volunteers): 25 May 2013.
• The 152 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshops: 25 May 2013.
• The Police Service of Northern Ireland: December 2014.^[380]

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Causeway Coast and Glens

• 152 (Ulster) Transport Regiment, RLC: 25 October 2008.^[382]

Coleraine

• The Ulster Defence Regiment: 28 March 1981.^[383]

Larne

• The Royal Irish Regiment: 1 November 2008. ^[384]

Lisburn

• The Royal Irish Regiment: May 2011 ^[385]

Mid and East Antrim

• B Squadron Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry: 31 January 2016.^[386]

Isle of Man

Ramsey

• HMS Ramsey, Royal Navy: 24 April 2010.^[387][388]

British Overseas Territories

Bermuda

Hamilton

• The Royal Bermuda Regiment: 13 November 2015.^{[389][390][391]}

Gibraltar

• The Royal Gibraltar Regiment: 25 September 1971.
• The Royal Marines ^[392]

Germany

Berlin (Spandau)

• 7 Flight Army Air Corps: 22 October 1982.^[85]

Stadt Soest

• 3 Regiment Army Air Corps: 8 May 1993.^[85]

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