List of army units called Guards

Australia

• Federation Guard

Austria

• Gardebataillon

Bahrain

• Royal Guard

Bulgaria

• National Guards Unit of Bulgaria

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

Jordan

• Royal Guard Brigade

Netherlands

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

North Korea

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 Serbian Army used for ceremonial and special duties.

Singapore

• Singapore Guards, elite Singapore infantry unit used for special operations.

Spain

• Guardia Real
• Escuadrilla de honores del ejercito del aire

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)

• Royal Thai Army:
  • Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy Cadet Regiment, King's Guard
  • 1st Infantry Division, King's Guard
    • 1st Infantry Regiment, King's Own Bodyguard
    • 11th Infantry Regiment, King's Guard
    • 31st Infantry Regiment, King's Guard
  • 2nd Infantry Division, Queen's Guard
    • 2nd Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard
    • 12th Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard
    • 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard
  • 2nd Cavalry Division, King's Guard
    • 1st Cavalry Squadron, King's Guard
    • 4th Cavalry Squadron, King's Guard
    • 5th Cavalry Squadron, King's Guard
  • 27th Cavalry Division, King's Guard
  • 29th Cavalry Division, King's Guard
  • 1st Field Artillery Regiment, King's Guard
  • 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, King's Guard
  • 1st Air Defense Artillery Battalion, King's Guard
  • 1st Engineer Division, King's Guard
    • 1st Engineer Battalion, King's Guard
    • 2nd Engineer Battalion, King's Guard
  • 1st Signal Battalion, King's Guard
  • 2nd Signal Battalion, King's Guard
  • Transport Regiment, King's Guard
• Royal Thai Navy:
  • Naval Cadet Regiment, King's Guard (Cadet students of the Royal Naval Academy)
  • Headquarters Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment, Marine Division, King's Guard (Royal Thai Marine Corps)
  • Headquarters Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Marine Division, King's Guard (Royal Thai Marine Corps)
  • 1st Marine Battalion, King's Guard, 1st Infantry Regiment, Marine Division (Royal Thai Marine Corps)
  • 9th Marine Battalion, King's Guard, 3rd Infantry Regiment, Marine Division (Royal Thai Marine Corps)
• Royal Thai Air Force:
  • Air Cadet Regiment, King's Guard (Cadet students of the Royal Air Force Academy)
  • RTAF Security Force Regiment, King's Guard
  • Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, King's Guard
  • 201st Air Force Squadron, King's Guard
  • 602st Air Force Squadron, King's Guard

Ukraine

United Kingdom

• Guards Division.
  • Foot Guards
    • Grenadier Guards
    • Coldstream Guards
    • Scots Guards
    • Irish Guards
    • Welsh Guards
  • 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 ^[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]

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

East Germany

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

Ethiopia

• Kebur Zabagna ("Honorable Guard")

Finland

For Guards units before 1918, see Russian Empire.

France

• Garde du Corps
  • Garde Écossaise
• 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

Iran

• Imperial Guard

Japan

• Imperial Guard (Imperial Japanese Army, 1867–1945)

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

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 Guard Dragoons
• Svea Life Guards
• Göta Life Guards
• 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.