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.
Active
Australia
- Federation Guard
- Airfield Defence Guards
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 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
- PLA Beijing Garrison
- *1st Guard Division
- **Central Guard Corps
- **Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion
- *3rd Guard Division
- *17th Guard Regiment
China, Republic of (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
Denmark
- Royal Life Guards
- Guard Hussar Regiment Mounted Squadron
Estonia
- Military Police Guard Battalion
Finland
- Guard Jaeger Regiment
Germany
- Wachbataillon
India
- Brigade of the Guards
- President's Bodyguard
Iran
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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
Korea, North (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
Guard units
- Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea 6th Office
- State Affairs Commission Guard Bureau
- Central Committee of the WPK Guard Bureau
- Guard Command Unit
- 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
Korea, South (Republic of 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
Norway
- His Majesty the King's Guard
Oman
- Royal Guard of Oman
Philippines
Romania
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Royal Guard Regiment
Serbia
- Guard, unit of the Serbian Armed Forces used for ceremonial duties.
Singapore
- Guards, light infantry units of the Singapore Army used for Air assault and Amphibious 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
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
United States
- Marine Embassy Guards
- National Guard
- * Royal Guards of Hawaii, a ceremonial guard unit of the Hawaii Air National Guard
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 Life Guards
Byzantine
- Varangian Guard, a unit of the Byzantine emperor chiefly made up of troops of Scandinavian and North West European origin.
Canada
- 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
- Canadian Guards
China
- Imperial Guards
- Imperial Guards
- 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
- Kebur Zabagna
Finland
France
- Maison militaire du roi de France
- * Garde du Corps
- ** Garde Écossaise
- *Mousquetaires de la Garde
- 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
- SS Guards
Iran
- Imperial Guard
Imperial Japan
- Konoe Shidan of the Imperial Japanese Army, 1867–1945.
Joseon Korea
- Wanggung Sumunjang
Morocco
- Black Guard
Philippines
- AFP Presidential Guards Battalion
- Malacanang Guards
- Presidential Guard Corps
Prussia
- Guards Corps
Cavalry
- 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
Infantry
- 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
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