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Guard may refer to:

Professional occupations[link]

• Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault
• Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street
• Life guard, who rescues people from drowning
• Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail
• Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people
• Train conductor, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India

Governmental and military[link]

• Guards units were elite soldiers, infantry or cavalry
• Border guard, a state security agency.
• Civic guard/civil guard, a police force.
• Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue.
• Honor Guard, primarily ceremonial.
• National Guard (disambiguation), primarily domestic defense units which have military or law enforcement missions

Sports[link]

• Guard (American football), a player between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a team
• Guard (grappling), a position in martial arts in which the person lies on the back, is confronted by the opponent aligned on top facing him/her, but has his/her legs entangling the opponent for control.
• basketball position
  • Point guard, or "playmaker"
  • Shooting guard, or "off guard"
• In historical swordmanship color guard (flag spinning), or "guard" was a defensive position.
• Guard colorguard People who toss flags, spin a rifle and a sabre at performances with or without a marching band. The colorguard is a non-musical section that provides additional visual aspects to the performance

Others[link]

• Guard (computing), in programming language, an expression that directs program execution
• Guard (information security), a device for controlling communication between computer networks
• Guard (weapon), part of the handle of a sword designed to stop the user's hand from slipping onto the blade
• Guard dog, employed to watch for unwanted or unexpected animals or people
• Guard interval, intervals in transmission, used in telecommunications
• In buildings, a "guard" can mean a Safety barrier to stop people from falling into hazards such as into a fire or off a raised walking surface
• Abdominal guarding, in medicine, the tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs
• The aircraft emergency frequency, commonly referred to as "guard"
• Mate guarding—guarding of a potential or former mate from other individuals

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Guard"
• All pages with titles containing "Guard"
• The Guard (disambiguation)
• Guardian (disambiguation)
• Sentry (disambiguation)
• Sentinel (disambiguation)

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier refers to a grave in which the remains of an unidentified soldier are interred, dedicated to the common memories of all soldiers killed in any war. Such tombs can be found in many nations and are usually high-profile national monuments. Throughout history, many soldiers have died in wars without their remains being identified. Following the First World War, a movement arose to commemorate these soldiers with a single tomb, containing the body of one such unidentified soldier.

During the First World War, the British and French armies jointly decided to bury soldiers themselves in the form normally associated with religion.^[vague] In Britain, under the Imperial War Graves Commission, Reverend David Railton had seen a grave marked by a rough cross while serving in the British Army as a chaplain on the Western Front, which bore the pencil-written legend "An Unknown British Soldier". He suggested (together with the French in their own country) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an "Unknown Warrior", proposing that the grave should in Britain include a national monument in the form of what is usually, but not in this particular case, a headstone. The idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King George V, responding to a wave of public support.^{[citation needed]} At the same time, there was a similar undertaking in France, where the idea was debated and agreed upon in Parliament.

The United Kingdom and France conducted services connected with their 'monumental' graves (as presumably newly conceived, and in any case approved, by their respective armies) on Armistice Day 1920 (the burial itself taking place later in January of the following year in France). In Britain, the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior was created at Westminster Abbey, while in France La tombe du soldat inconnu was placed in the Arc de Triomphe. The idea of a symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier then spread to other countries. In 1921, tombs were unveiled in the United States, Portugal and Italy. Since then, other nations have followed the practice and installed their own tombs. In the United States, further tombs have subsequently been created in order to represent different wars seen as key in its history. In Ukraine, a second tomb was unveiled to commemorate The Unknown Sailor.

The tombs typically contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified (or "known but to God" as the stone is sometimes inscribed)^[1] and thought to be impossible ever to identify, so that he might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell. The anonymity of the entombed soldier is key to the symbolism of the monument: since his or her identity is unknown, it could theoretically be the tomb of anyone who fell in service of the nation in question, and therefore serves as a monument to all of their sacrifices. Much work goes into trying to find a certain soldier, and to verify that it is indeed one of the relevant nation's soldiers.

The other places that have tombs of the unknown soldiers

Countries	Location	Image	Description
Argentina	Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires		Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Independence
Australia	Australian War Memorial in Canberra		The tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Austria	Heldenplatz in Vienna		[citation needed]
Belgium	Colonnade of the Congress in Brussels		The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the base of the location.
Bolivia	Monumento al Soldado Desconocido in La Paz		The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, center piece of the location.[citation needed]
Brazil	Monument to the Pracinhas in Rio de Janeiro		The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the platform of the location.
Bulgaria	Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia
	Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Haskovo[citation needed]
Canada	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, Confederation Square in Ottawa		[2]
Chile	General Manuel Baquedano Square in Santiago		Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.[citation needed]
	Plaza de la Cuidadanía (Citizenship Square), Santiago de Chile		Contains the remains of a soldier found in Zig Zag, Perú.[citation needed] Died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
	Cripta del Morro de Arica (Rock of Arica Crypt), Arica		Contains the remains of a soldier found in 1998.[citation needed] Died during the War of the Pacific.
Czech Republic	National Memorial on Vítkov Hill in Prague		contains remains of a soldier fallen at the Battle of Zborov as a part of a larger memorial to all Czechoslovak soldiers
Egypt	Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo		Also includes the tomb of President Anwar Sadat.
Estonia	Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces in Tallinn
Finland	Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki		In the centre of the military cemetery are the tombs of the unknown soldier and Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim.
France	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Germany	Unter den Linden, Berlin		Within a 19th century guardhouse, the Neue Wache
Greece	Monument of the Unknown Soldier on Syntagma Square in Athens		Two quotations by Thucydides, from Pericles' Funeral Oration, are inscribed on the retaining wall: Μία κλίνη κενὴ φέρεται ἐστρωμένη τῶν ἀφανῶν ("... and one bed is carried empty, made for the unknown ones"), and Ἀνδρῶν ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος ("For eminent men, every place is (worthy) burial ground"). The inscriptions flank a central sculpture in low relief, depicting a dying hoplite. The monument is guarded round the clock by the Evzones of the Presidential Guard.
Hungary	Heroes' Square in Budapest
India	India Gate, New Delhi		Burning in a shrine under the arch of India Gate since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (the flame of the immortal soldier) which marks the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The shrine itself is a black marble cenotaph with a rifle placed on its barrel, crested by a soldier's helmet. Each face of the cenotaph has inscribed in gold the words "Amar Jawan" (Immortal Warrior) in the Hindi language.[3] The Prime Minister of India pays homage to the country's fallen soldiers along with the Chiefs of Staff of each arm of the Armed Forces on each Republic Day of India.
Indonesia	The Pandu war cemetery at Bandung		The Field of Honor is a memorial to the unknown soldier. There is also the Tomb of the Unknown (Dutch) Sailor in Kembang Kuning war cemetery in Surabaya.[4]
Iraq	The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad
Israel	Garden of the Missing Soldiers in Mount Herzl, Jerusalem		initially called "Unknown Soldier Monument" that became section of IDF soldiers whose place of burial is unknown. before 2004 the garden was a ceremonies plaza for the Israeli unknown soldiers. a new memorial to the Unknown Soldier planned to open in the National Memorial Hall that will be open in 2013 nearby.
Italy	Piazza Venezia in Rome	100px	The Tomb of the Milite Ignoto in the Altare della Patria (Vittoriano)
Japan	Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo
	Ryozen Kannon in Kyoto
	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the World in Ogose, Saitama
	Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō in Tondabayashi, Osaka
Lithuania	Vienybės Square in Kaunas		Tomb of Nežinomas kareivis, with remains of soldier who died in fights against Bolsheviks in 1919.
Malaysia	Tugu Negara in Kuala Lumpur	100px	Completed in 1966 to commemorate combatants who fought against Japanese occupation of pre-independence Malaysia in World War II and the Malayan National Liberation Army insurgency during the Malayan Emergency. Also includes a pre-independence cenotaph, which was shifted from its original location closer to the old town of Kuala Lumpur, commemorating the war dead of World War I, World War II and the Malayan Emergency.
Namibia	Heroes' Acre in Windhoek		The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains soil from Cassinga and Oshatotwa from the Namibian War of Independence.
New Zealand	Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial in Wellington
Peru	Plaza Bolivar in Lima		Contains the remains of a soldier who died in 1881 during the War of the Pacific.
Philippines	Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes) in Manila		Contains the remains of the Philippine soldiers who have joined the military and some in the war.
	Shrine of Valour in Bataan
Poland	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Marshall Józef Piłsudski Square in Warsaw		Constructed as the arcade of Saxon Palace, which was destroyed in 1944. Contains the remains of a soldier who died between 1918 and 1920.
Portugal	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Monastery of Batalha
Romania	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carol Park in Bucharest
Russia	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Alexander Garden in Moscow
Serbia	Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt. Avala near Belgrade	100px
Slovenia	Monument to the Unknown French Soldier, French Revolution Square in Ljubljana
Somalia	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Mogadishu City Centre.		A monument erected in honour of the Somali men and women who died in defense of the Somali Republic. It's popularly known as Daljirka Dahsoon, and its an important landmark in Mogadishu.
Spain	Monumento a los Caídos por España, Plaza de la Lealtad in Madrid		Popularly known as the Obelisco ("Obelisk"), it is built on the same place where General Joachim Murat ordered the execution of numerous Spaniards after the Dos de Mayo Uprising of 1808. Originally inaugurated on May 2, 1840, it was re-inaugurated on November 22, 1985, by King Juan Carlos I as a remembrance to all those who gave their life for Spain. An eternal flame fuelled by gas has been constantly burning on the front of the monument.
Syria	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Damascus	100px
Turkey	Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial on Gallipoli		Erected for the unknown martyrs of the Çanakkale Front, which was the arena for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Opened on 20 August 1960. Another monument at the same site is for the foreign soldiers (mostly Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) lost in the same clash.
Ukraine	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Dnieper Park in Kiev[citation needed]
	Monument to the Unknown Sailor, Shevchenko Park in Odessa
United Kingdom	Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey in London	100px
United States	Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
	Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, Washington Square in Philadelphia
	Civil War Unknowns Monument, Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia
	Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier at Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi
Venezuela	Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Carabobo Field, Carabobo		[citation needed]

See also[link]

• World War I memorials

References[link]

External links[link]

• Copernicus Organization, World Veterans Federation, "Tombs of the Unknown Soldier in Central and Eastern Europe" by Prof. Michał Chilczuk, Chairman, Working Group on Central and Eastern Europe, SCEA
• Vivaboo.com, "Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Around The World (History)"

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