| SUBALTERN | Officer (British Army) (9) |
| SUPERB | Excellent senior police officer, British (6) |
| FOB | Field Officer, British, gets decoration (3) |
| BRIGADIER | Officer of the British Army or Royal Marines ranking above colonel and below major general (9) |
| ALDERSHOT | Home of the British Army (9) |
| GRENADIER | Rereading novel located in British army barracks (9) |
| BATTALION | Cricketer thanks archetypal British army unit (9) |
| ENGINEERS | Royal _, a branch of the British army (9) |
| SANDHURST | Berkshire seat of the Royal Military Academy where all officers in the British Army are trained (9) |
| CATTERICK | North Yorkshire village, the site of an important British Army garrison (9) |
| SAMBROWNE | Military belt with a strap over the shoulder - it was named after its inventor, an officer of the British Army in India who lost an arm in the 1858 Mutiny (3,6) |
| BEARSKINS | Tall helmets of black fur, worn by certain British Army regiments (9) |
| ARTILLERY | The A of RA as a regiment of the British Army (9) |
| GLENGARRY | Traditional headgear for Scottish regiments of the British Army, also worn by most pipe bands (9) |
| BEFUDDLES | British army used heartless detective on the French inebriates (9) |
| UKRATIONS | Meals for the British Army? |
| REDDEVILS | British Army Parachute Regiment display team (3,6) |
| SALTPETRE | Gunpowder ingredient, to the British Army |
| JOHNMOORE | Glasgow-born British army lieutenant-general mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 |
| BROWNBESS | Nickname for the flintlock musket once used by the British Army (5,4) |
