British Army Regulars in numbers
17th Century 19th Century
Early 20th Century
Late 20th Century
1649 44,000 England's New Model Army created
1652 68,000 Cromwell's conquest of Ireland
1817 92,000 after Napoleonic Wars
1883
124,000
430,000 Boer war
1918 Ill
315,000 (including National Servicemen)
1978 163,000
2011 Ill
101,000
2020 82,000 (estimated)
•including volunteers "including the women of the ATS
Source: National Arrn,• Museum and MOD
end of WWI
end of WWII
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