List of army units called Guards
The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria on parade.
This is a list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard. Border guards, coast guards, Home Guards, national guards, honour guards, republican guards, and royal guards are listed under their own articles. See also Presidential Guard (disambiguation) and Red Guards (disambiguation).
Active[]
Australia[]
Austria[]
Bahrain[]
Belarus[]
- 38th Guards Air Assault Brigade
- 51st Guards Artillery Brigade
- 72nd Guards Joint Training Centre
- 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade
- 11th Guards Berlin-Carpathian Mechanized Brigade
- 19th Guards Mechanized Brigade
Bhutan[]
Bulgaria[]
- National Guards Unit of Bulgaria, elite military unit of the Bulgarian Land Forces used for ceremonial and special duties.
Canada[]
China (PRC)[]
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- 1st Guard Division
- 3rd Guard Division
- 17th Guard Regiment
Denmark[]
Estonia[]
Finland[]
Germany[]
India[]
Israel[]
- Knesset Guard (Hebrew: Mishmar HaKnesset) responsible for the security of the Knesset building and the protection of its members (MKs).
Jordan[]
Kazakhstan[]
- 35th Guards Air Assault Brigade
- 210th Guards Training Center
- 390th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
Montenegro[]
Morocco[]
Netherlands[]
North Korea[]
Guard Units[]
- Guards Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105th Tank Division
- Guards 1st Infantry Division
- Guards Kang Kon 2nd Infantry Division
- Guards Seoul 3rd Infantry Division
- Guards Seoul Kim Chaek 4th Infantry Division
- Guards 6th Infantry Division
- Andong Choe Chun Guk 12th Infantry Division
- Guards 10th Infantry Regiment
- Guards 14th Infantry Regiment
- Guards Ri Hun 18th Infantry Regiment
- Guards 86th Infantry Regiment
- Guards 19th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- Guards 23rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- Guards 26th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- Guards 2nd Torpedo Boat Fleet
- Guards 1st Air Division
- Guards Hero Kim Ji Sang 56th Fighter Regiment
- Guards 60th Fighter Regiment
- Guards 1st Construction Brigade
Units with the word guards[]
- Worker-Peasant Red Guards
- Supreme Guard Command - also known as KPA Unit 963
Norway[]
Oman[]
Romania[]
Russia[]
Saudi Arabia[]
Serbia[]
- Serbian Guards Unit, elite military unit of the Serbian Army used for ceremonial and special duties.
Singapore[]
- Singapore Guards, elite Singapore infantry unit used for special operations.
Spain[]
- Guardia Real
- Guardia Mora
- "Old Guard of Castille" Honor Guard Battalion and Regimental Band, 1st King's Immemorial Infantry Regiment
Sweden[]
Switzerland[]
- Swiss Guard, Swiss mercenary soldiers who served as guards at foreign European courts.
Thailand[]
- King's Guard (ceremonial designation given to units from the three branches of service)
Ukraine[]
United Kingdom[]
- Household Division
- Royal Armoured Corps
Vietnam[]
Military Honour Guard Battalion of the Vietnam People's Army
- Vietnam People's Army:
- Vietnam Border Guard: border protection
- Vietnam Coast Guard: coast protection
- General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army:
- 144th Guarding Brigade: protective guards of Ministry of Defense headquarter, General Staff headquarter as well as national and international conferences [1]
- Military Honor Guard Unit: honor guard during visits of foreign leaders, National Day parade, Military Memory days...[2]
- Ministry of Defense:
- Command of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Guard: protection of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum[3]
Historical[]
Bavaria[]
Byzantine[]
- Varangian Guard, a unit of the Byzantine emperor chiefly made up of troops of Scandinavian and North West European origin.
China[]
- Imperial Guards (Qing dynasty)
- Imperial Guards (Tang dynasty)
- Manchukuo Imperial Guards
- 3rd Interior Guard Division
- 4th Guard Division
East Germany[]
Ethiopia[]
- Kebur Zabagna ("Honorable Guard")
Finland[]
For Guards units before 1918, see Russian Empire.
France[]
- Maison militaire du roi de France
- Imperial Guard (Napoleon I)
- 1st Polish Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard
- 2e régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde Impériale
- Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale
- Dragons de la Garde Impériale
- Éclaireurs of the Guard
- Gendarmes d'élite de la Garde Impériale
- Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale
- Lithuanian Tartars of the Imperial Guard
- Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard
- Imperial Guard (Napoleon III)
German Empire[]
- Guards Corps
- Guards Reserve Corps
- 4th Guards Infantry Division
- 5th Guards Infantry Brigade
- Guards Reserve Uhlans
- 2nd Guards Field Artillery
- 5th Guards Infantry Division
- 2nd Guards Reserve Division
- Guard Ersatz Division
Iran[]
Japan[]
- Imperial Guard (Imperial Japanese Army, 1867–1945)
Morocco[]
Prussia[]
Cavalry
- Gardes du Corps, also known as the "Prussian Guard" a Prussian formation until 1918
- 1st Guards Uhlans
- 2nd Guards Uhlans
Infantry(each of the Foot Guards and four of the Guards Grenadiers would form reserve (Landwehr) units upon mobilization in August 1914)
- 1st Foot Guards
- 3rd Foot Guards
- 4th Foot Guards
- 5th Foot Guards
- 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers
- 4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers
- 5th Guards Grenadiers
- Guards Fusiliers
Artillery
Support units
Papal States[]
- Corsican Guard
- Noble Guard
- Palatine Guard
Poland[]
Portugal[]
Roman Empire[]
Russian Empire[]
- Imperial Guard
- 1st Guard Cavalry Division
- 1st Guards Infantry Division
- 2nd Guard Cavalry division
- 3rd Guard Infantry Division
- Chevalier Guard Regiment
- Egersky Guards Regiment
- Finland Guard Regiment
- Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion
- Moscow Guard Regiment
Saxony[]
Soviet Union[]
- Guards unit, a type of military unit of the former Soviet Union
Spanish Netherlands[]
Sri Lanka[]
Sweden[]
- Life Guards of Horse (K 1)
- Life Guards Squadron (K 1)
- Life Guard Dragoons (K 1)
- Svea Life Guards (I 1)
- (I 2), an infantry regiment 1742–1939
- Göta Life Guards (P 1), an armoured regiment 1943–1980
United Kingdom[]
- 1st Regiment of Life Guards
- 2nd Regiment of Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards - predecessor unit to the Blues and Royals
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards -1959
- 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) -1922
- 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) 1746-1922
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards -1922
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards 1788-1922
- Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) 1788-1922
- 7th (The Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards -1922
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards 1959-
- 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) 1922-1971 (also known as "3rd/6th Dragoon Guards")
- 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 1922-1992
- 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 192-
- Horse Grenadier Guards 1687 - 1788
- Horse Guards Regiment - a number of temporary regiments carried this name.
- Guards Machine Gun Regiment
- Royal Guards Reserve Regiment
- Organizational units
- Brigade of Guards
- Guards Division
- Guards Armoured Division
- 1st Guards Brigade
- 2nd Guards Brigade
- 3rd Guards Brigade
- 4th Guards Brigade
- 5th Guards Armoured Brigade 1941-1945 (later 5th Guards Brigade)
- 6th Guards Tank Brigade (United Kingdom) 1941-1945 (later 6th Guards Brigade)
- 20th Independent Infantry Brigade (Guards)
- 22nd Guards Brigade
- 32nd Guards Infantry Brigade 1941-1945
Vatican[]
- Noble Guard
Vietnam[]
- Red Guards (Tự vệ Đỏ) is the precursor force of Vietnam's today police. The Red Guards were formed by Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 - 1931, during Nghệ-Tĩnh uprising against French rule.
See also[]
Notes[]
References[]
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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