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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)
A royal guard or the palace guard, is a group of military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal family member, such as a king or queen, or prince or princess.
This is a list detailing formal military service by members of the British royal family. There is also a list of military titles, service appointments, and various job titles within the royal family, which is listed below. These roles are honorary and may, or may not, also be held by Royals who are ex-military or serving military persons.
Pages in category "Royal guards" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Royal Security Command (RSC) – Militarized royal guards under the Monarchy of Thailand and provides personal protective security to the royal family. Special Branch Bureau (SBB) – Personal protective security to members royal family, members of the Royal Thai Government VIPs, and members of foreign governments VIPs visiting Thailand.
The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals, locked in a rivalry stretching back to the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, each put forward six challengers to compete for eight places at the ...
The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry Hamilton ...
An imperial guard or palace guard is a special group of troops (or a member thereof) of an empire, typically closely associated directly with the emperor and/or empress. Usually these troops embody a more elite status than other imperial forces, including the regular armed forces , and maintain special rights, privileges and traditions.