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* [[4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards]]

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This is a list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard. Border guards, coast guards, civil guards, home guards, national guards, honor guards, republican guards, imperial guards and royal guards are listed under their own articles. See also Presidential Guard and Red Guards (disambiguation).

Australia’s Federation Guard
The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria on parade

China, People’s Republic of

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China, Republic of (Taiwan)

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Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen inspects a joint-services guard of honour, made up of personnel from the Republic of China army, air force, and navy, 2017
Estonia’s Military Police Guard Battalion during the Estonia 100 parade in 2018
  • Knesset Guard (Hebrew: Mishmar HaKnesset) responsible for the security of the Knesset building and the protection of its members (MKs).

Korea, North (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)

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Units with the word guards

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Korea, South (Republic of Korea)

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Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak walk through an honour guard cordon formed by South Korea’s Traditional Guard of Honour Unit, 2010

Guard Battalion, Presidential Security Command

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.

  • Swiss Guard, Swiss mercenary soldiers who served as guards at foreign European courts.
  • King’s Guard (ceremonial designation given to units from the three branches of service)
  • Varangian Guard, a unit of the Byzantine emperor chiefly made up of troops of Scandinavian and North West European origin.
Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment

For Guards units before 1918, see Russian Empire.

  • AFP Presidential Guards Battalion
  • Malacanang Guards
  • Presidential Guard Corps

Each of the foot guards and four of the guards grenadiers would form reserve (Landwehr) units upon mobilization in August 1914.

Spanish Netherlands

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Army

Army reserve

Organizational units
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  • Philip Mansel, Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400–1984, ISBN 0-7043-2424-5

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