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, Home Guards, national guards, honour guards, republican guards, and royal guards are listed under their own articles. See also Presidential Guard and Red Guards.
Active
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
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
Denmark
- Royal Life Guards
- Guard Hussar Regiment Mounted Squadron
Estonia
- Guard Battalion
Finland
- Guard Jaeger Regiment
Germany
- Wachbataillon
India
- Brigade of the Guards
Israel
- Knesset Guard responsible for the security of the Knesset building and the protection of its members.
Jordan
- Royal Guard Brigade
Kazakhstan
- 35th Guards Air Assault Brigade
- 210th Guards Training Center
- 390th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
Netherlands
- Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene
- Grenadiers' and Rifles Guard Regiment
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
- Youth Red Guards
- Supreme Guard Command - also known as KPA Unit 963
Morocco
- Moroccan Royal Guard
Norway
- His Majesty The King's Guard
Oman
- Royal Guard
Romania
- 30th Honor Guard Brigade "Mihai Viteazul"
Russia
Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Royal Guard Regiment
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
- Life Guards
Switzerland
- Swiss Guard, Swiss mercenary soldiers who served as guards at foreign European courts.
Thailand
- King's Guard
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Household Division
- * Foot Guards
- ** Grenadier Guards
- ** Coldstream Guards
- ** Scots Guards
- ** Irish Guards
- ** Welsh Guards
- * Household Cavalry
- ** Life Guards
- ** Blues and Royals .
- 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
Historical
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
- Imperial Guards
- Manchukuo Imperial Guards
East Germany
- Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment
- Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment
- Guard Regiment Hugo Eberlein
Ethiopia
- Kebur Zabagna
Finland
France
- Garde du Corps
- * Garde Écossaise
- Imperial Guard
- * 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
- * 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
Iran
- Imperial Guard
Japan
- Imperial Guard
Morocco
- Black Guard
Prussia
- Guards Corps
- Gardes du Corps, also known as the "Prussian Guard" a Prussian formation until 1918
- Guards Cuirassier Regiment
- 1st Guards Dragoons
- 2nd Guards Dragoons
- 1st Guards Uhlans
- 2nd Guards Uhlans
- 3rd Guards Uhlans
- Life Guards Hussars
- 1st Foot Guards
- 2nd Foot Guards
- 3rd Foot Guards
- 4th Foot Guards
- 5th Foot Guards
- 1st Guards Grenadiers
- 2nd Guards Grenadiers
- 3rd Guards Grenadiers
- 4th Guards Grenadiers
- 5th Guards Grenadiers
- Guards Fusiliers
- Guards Jäger Battalion
- Palace Guards Company
- 1st Guards Machine Gun Detachment
- 2nd Guards Machine Gun Detachment
- 1st Guards Field Artillery
- 2nd Guards Field Artillery
- 3rd Guards Field Artillery
- 4th Guards Field Artillery
- Guards Foot Artillery
- 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
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
- President's Guard
Sweden
- Life Guards of Horse
- Life Guards Squadron
- Life Guard Dragoons
- Svea Life Guards
- , an infantry regiment 1742–1939
- Göta Life Guards, 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 -1922
- 3rd Dragoon Guards 1746-1922
- 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards -1922
- 5th Dragoon Guards 1788-1922
- Carabiniers 1788-1922
- 7th Dragoon Guards -1922
- 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards 1959-
- 3rd Carabiniers 1922-1971
- 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
- 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
- 6th Guards Tank Brigade 1941-1945
- 20th Independent Infantry Brigade
- 22nd Guards Brigade
- 32nd Guards Infantry Brigade 1941-1945
Vatican
- Noble Guard
Vietnam
- Red Guards 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.