List of army units called "guards"

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

 * Federation Guard

Austria

 * Gardebataillon

Bahrain

 * Royal Guard

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

Bangladesh
* President Guard's Regiment

Bhutan

 * Royal Bodyguard of Bhutan

Bulgaria

 * National Guards Unit of Bulgaria, elite military unit of the Bulgarian Land Forces used for ceremonial and special duties.

Canada

 * Governor General's Foot Guards
 * The Governor General's Horse Guards
 * The Canadian Grenadier Guards

China (People’s Republic of China)

 * PLA Beijing Garrison
 * 1st Guard Division
 * Central Guard Corps
 * Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion
 * 3rd Guard Division
 * 17th Guard Regiment

China (Republic of China/“Taiwan”)

 * Honour Guard Company, Army HQ, Republic of China Army
 * Honour Guard Company, ROC Air Force Air Defense Artillery Command, Republic of China Air Force
 * Fleet Honour Guard, Republic of China Navy
 * Honour Guard Company, Corps HQ Battalion, Republic of China Marine Corps
 * Republic of China Police Honour Guard (中華民國警察儀隊)

Denmark

 * Royal Life Guards
 * Guard Hussar Regiment Mounted Squadron

Estonia

 * Guard Battalion

Finland

 * Guard Jaeger Regiment

Germany

 * Wachbataillon

India

 * Brigade of the Guards
 * President's Bodyguard

Iran

 * Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Israel

 * Knesset Guard (Hebrew: Mishmar HaKnesset) responsible for the security of the Knesset building and the protection of its members (MKs).

Jordan

 * Royal Guard Brigade

Kazakhstan

 * 35th Guards Air Assault Brigade
 * 210th Guards Training Center
 * 390th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade

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

Korea (ROK/"South Korea")

 * Honor Guard Company, Republic of Korea Army
 * Traditional Guard of Honour Unit, 3rd Infantry Division
 * Honor Guard Company, Republic of Korea Air Force
 * Honor Guard Company, Republic of Korea Navy
 * Honor Guard Company, Republic of Korea Marine Corps

Montenegro

 * Honour Guard Company

Morocco

 * Moroccan Royal Guard

Netherlands

 * Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene
 * Grenadiers' and Rifles Guard Regiment

Units with the word guards

 * Worker-Peasant Red Guards
 * Youth Red Guards
 * Supreme Guard Command - also known as KPA Unit 963

Norway

 * His Majesty the King's Guard

Oman

 * Royal Guard of Oman

Philippines

 * Honor Guards, Presidential Security Group

Romania

 * 30th Honor Guard Brigade "Mihai Viteazul"

Saudi Arabia

 * Saudi Royal Guard Regiment

Serbia

 * Guard, unit of the Serbian Armed Forces used for ceremonial duties.

Singapore

 * Guards, elite infantry unit of the Singapore Army used for special operations.

Slovenia

 * Slovenian Guards Unit

Spain

 * Guardia Real
 * Guardia Mora
 * "Old Guard of Castille" Honor Guard Battalion and Regimental Band, Infantry Regiment "Inmemorial del Rey" No. 1

Sweden

 * Life Guards

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)

United Kingdom

 * Household Division
 * Foot Guards
 * Grenadier Guards
 * Coldstream Guards
 * Scots Guards
 * Irish Guards
 * Welsh Guards
 * Household Cavalry
 * Life Guards
 * Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons).
 * Royal Armoured Corps
 * 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
 * Royal Dragoon Guards
 * Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Vietnam

 * 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
 * Military Honor Guard Unit: honor guard during visits of foreign leaders, National Day parade, Military Memory days...
 * Ministry of Defense:
 * Command of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Guard: protection of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

Bavaria

 * Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment

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

 * Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment
 * Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment
 * Guard Regiment Hugo Eberlein

Ethiopia

 * Mehal Sefari ("Center Campers")
 * Kebur Zabagna ("Honorable Guard")

Finland
For Guards units before 1918, see Russian Empire.

France

 * Maison militaire du roi de France
 * Garde du Corps
 * Garde Écossaise
 * Mousquetaires de la Garde
 * 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)
 * Cent-gardes Squadron

German Empire

 * Guards Corps
 * Guards Cavalry Division
 * 1st Guards Infantry Division
 * 2nd Guards Infantry Division
 * Guards Reserve Corps
 * 3rd Guards Infantry Division
 * 1st Guards Reserve Division
 * 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
 * SS Guards (Third Reich)

Iran

 * Imperial Guard

Imperial Japan

 * Konoe Shidan (近衛師団) of the Imperial Japanese Army, 1867–1945.

Joseon Korea

 * Wanggung Sumunjang

Morocco

 * Black Guard

Prussia

 * Guards Corps

Cavalry
 * Gardes du Corps, also known as the "Prussian Guard" a Prussian formation until 1918
 * Guards Cuirassier Regiment
 * 1st (Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland) Guards Dragoons
 * 2nd (Empress Alexandra of Russia) Guards Dragoons
 * 1st Guards Uhlans
 * 2nd Guards Uhlans
 * 3rd Guards Uhlans
 * Life Guards Hussars

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
 * 2nd Foot Guards
 * 3rd Foot Guards
 * 4th Foot Guards
 * 5th Foot Guards
 * 1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers
 * 2nd (Emperor Francis) Guards Grenadiers
 * 3rd (Queen Elizabeth) Guards Grenadiers
 * 4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers
 * 5th Guards Grenadiers
 * Guards Fusiliers
 * Guards Jäger Battalion
 * Palace Guards Company
 * 1st Guards Machine Gun Detachment
 * 2nd Guards Machine Gun Detachment

Artillery


 * 1st Guards Field Artillery
 * 2nd Guards Field Artillery
 * 3rd Guards Field Artillery
 * 4th Guards Field Artillery
 * Guards Foot Artillery

Support units
 * Guards Engineers
 * Guards Trains

Papal States

 * Corsican Guard
 * Noble Guard
 * Palatine Guard

Poland

 * Royal Guards

Portugal

 * Royal Guard of the Archers

Roman Empire

 * Praetorian Guard

Romania

 * 2nd Vânători Guard Regiment "Queen Elisabeta"
 * 2nd Guard Aviation Flotilla
 * 4th Roșiori Guard Regiment "Queen Maria"
 * 6th Dorobanți Guard Regiment
 * Royal Guard Battalion

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

 * 1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry

Soviet Union

 * Guards unit, a type of military unit of the former Soviet Union

Spanish Netherlands

 * Walloon Guards

Sri Lanka
Army Army reserve
 * President's Guard
 * Sri Lanka National Guard

Sweden

 * Life Guards of Horse (K 1)
 * Life Guards Squadron (K 1)
 * Life Guard Dragoons (K 1)
 * Svea Life Guards (I 1)
 * Göta Life Guards (infantry) (I 2), an infantry regiment 1742–1939
 * Göta Life Guards (P 1), an armoured regiment 1943–1980
 * Finnish Guards

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.
 * 1st Troop of Horse Guards
 * 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.