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The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria on parade The Guard Battalion during the Estonia 100 parade in 2018 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 ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
The Palace Guard by Ernst Rudolf. Royal guards have historically comprised both purely ceremonial units serving in close proximity to the monarch, as well as regiments from all arms, forming a designated substantial elite and intended for active service as part of the army.
"Americal" – At one point in time this was the official Divisional designation, when it was redesignated as the 23rd Infantry Division, Americal became the divisional nickname. Originally formed in World War II out of separate American National Guard units on the island of New Caledonia, hence the origin of the name. 24th Infantry Division
Although the Swiss Guard was founded in 1506 and is one of the oldest active military units presently in existence, they were disbanded and reorganized multiple times. The most recent iteration of the Swiss Guard began in 1814, after being disbanded in 1809. [62] [63] 1842 Engineer Regiment: King Christian V Denmark Denmark
Replaced by mobilized Air National Guard units under Operation Stair Step. [306] Exercise Talisman Sabre – Biennial joint exercise involving United States and Australian military forces. Operation Tally Ho – Interdiction operations in Route Package 1, southern part of North Viet Nam [3] Tamale Pete – Vietnam War air refueling operations ...
The units are listed by their respective army branches, i.e. Guard infantry and engineers. All of the regiments and units pertaining to the Guard had the phrase "della Guardia Reale" (Italian: 'of the Royal Guard') after their official name, to indicate their status as part of the Royal Household Guard. [citation needed]
Amalgamated with the 86th in 1881 to become the Royal Irish Rifles which in turn became The Royal Ulster Rifles; 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1808-1819; 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) - 2 Battalions in 1801. Reduced to 1 Battalion in 1802. 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot - 2 ...