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Guardsman is a rank used instead of private in some military units that serve as the official bodyguard of a sovereign or head of state. It is also used as a generic term for any member of a guards unit of any rank.
In the Canadian Forces, the rank is used by privates in the Governor General's Foot Guards and the Canadian Grenadier Guards. The rank is considered non-gender specific and therefore applies equally to female soldiers. The rank badge is identical to that of private, a single chevron.
Guards units in Scandinavia all use the rank. This includes the Danish Army's Gardehusarregimentet (Guard Hussar Regiment) and Den Kongelige Livgarde (Royal Life Guards), the Norwegian Army's Hans Majestet Kongens Garde (His Majesty's Royal Guard), and the Swedish Army's Livgardet (Life Guards).
In the Indian Army the rank is used by the elite Brigade of the Guards.
In the Singapore Armed Forces, the rank is used by the elite Singapore Guards.
The British Army's Foot Guards regiments have used the rank since 1920, when it was adopted instead of private.
Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed by regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments since the 17th century, although the roots go back much earlier. On battlefields, a regiment's colours, or flags, were used as rallying points. Consequently, regiments would have their ensigns slowly march with their colours between the soldiers' ranks to enable soldiers to recognise their regiments' colours.
Since 1748 Trooping the Colour has also marked the official birthday of the British sovereign. It is held in London annually on a Saturday in June on Horse Guards Parade by St. James's Park, and coincides with the publication of the Birthday Honours List. Among the audience are the Royal Family, invited guests, ticketholders and the general public. The colourful ceremony, also known as "The Queen's Birthday Parade", is broadcast live by the BBC within the UK and is telecast also in Germany and Belgium.
The Queen travels down The Mall from Buckingham Palace in a royal procession with a sovereign's escort of Household Cavalry (mounted troops or horse guards). After receiving a royal salute, she inspects her troops of the Household Division, both foot guards and horse guards, and the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery. Each year, one of the foot-guards regiments is selected to troop its colour through the ranks of guards. Then the entire Household Division assembly conducts a march past the Queen, who receives a salute from the saluting base. Parading with its guns, the King's Troop takes precedence as the mounted troops perform a walk-march and trot-past.
Actors: Orson Bean (actor), Jerry Jameson (director), Kyle A. Clark (producer), William Clark Coit III (miscellaneous crew), Peter McKernan (miscellaneous crew), Treat Williams (actor), Bruce Broughton (composer), Mark S. Thomas (miscellaneous crew), Marta M. Mobley (producer), Zach Bradshaw (miscellaneous crew), Lina Wong (producer), Dan Paulson (actor), Dan Paulson (producer), John Colton (actor), Nancy Travis (actress),
Plot: Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Keywords: alcoholic-mother, arsonist, based-on-true-story, coast-guard, corrupt-official, happy-ending, judge, juvenile-delinquent, sailboat, sailingActors: Boaz Davidson (writer), Donald Bruce (miscellaneous crew), Trevor Short (producer), Christa Campbell (actress), Avi Lerner (producer), Kenneth M. Badish (writer), Boaz Davidson (producer), Danny Dimbort (producer), Atanas Srebrev (actor), Judd Nelson (actor), Kenneth M. Badish (producer), Kristy Swanson (actress), David Selby (actor), Claude Forest (miscellaneous crew), Tibor Takács (director),
Plot: It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them. By 7 A.M. a chain of earthquakes is tearing the city apart while a massive swirling black hole is consuming the remains. The alien is devouring every source of electricity it finds and destroying every human who blocks its way. Mass chaos rules as St. Louis is being evacuated. Only a few people, scientist Eric Bryce, his assistant Shannon, and General Ryker comprehend the mortal danger. By midnight, the Pentagon initiates a nuclear attack against the black hole. Bryce has only one hour to find a solution to obliterate the alien and the colossal black hole before mankind is annihilated.
Keywords: ambulance, anger, army, black-hole, blackboard, blood-splatter, bomber, bullhorn, computer, convoyActors: Zdenek Liska (composer), Petr Cepek (actor), Karel Hábl (actor), Pavel Landovský (actor), Ladislav Novotný (miscellaneous crew), Bedrich Kubala (miscellaneous crew), Josef Somr (actor), Miroslav Hájek (editor), Theodor Pistek (costume designer), Karel Belohradský (actor), Frantisek Vlácil (writer), Frantisek Vlácil (director), Bohumil Vávra (actor), Milos Willig (actor), Emma Cerná (actress),
Plot: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when he discovers her sheltering her German-soldier brother.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: George DeNormand (actor), Malcolm McGregor (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Tracy Layne (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), John Merton (actor),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: George DeNormand (actor), Malcolm McGregor (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Tracy Layne (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), John Merton (actor),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Rita Tushingham (actress), Richard Lester (director), Richard Lester (actor), Charlotte Rampling (actress), John Barry (composer), Jane Birkin (actress), Dandy Nichols (actress), Jacqueline Bisset (actress), Peter Copley (actor), John Bluthal (actor), Julian Holloway (actor), Michael Crawford (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Antony Gibbs (editor), Walter Horsbrugh (actor),
Plot: In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. Serendipitously, Colin and his new lodger Tom meet up with Nancy while Colin's buying a bed larger than Tolen's. The three hit it off, but their simple fun ends when Tolen meets Nancy. Colin is jealous but impotent, and Tolen both attracts and repels her. She swoons, wonders what happened, and cries 'rape.' Impish serendipity rubs against unsettling ambiguity; Tolen bolts.
Keywords: 1960s, apartment-house, based-on-play, bed, drum, fantasy-sequence, identically-dressed, independent-film, junkyard, london-englandActors: George DeNormand (actor), Malcolm McGregor (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Tracy Layne (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), John Merton (actor),
Plot: Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)
Keywords: 12-chapters, abyss, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, annapolis-maryland, arena, army, athlete, atlantis, atom, b-movieActors: George DeNormand (actor), Malcolm McGregor (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Tracy Layne (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), John Merton (actor),
Plot: Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)
Keywords: 12-chapters, abyss, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, annapolis-maryland, arena, army, athlete, atlantis, atom, b-movieActors: Luis Buñuel (miscellaneous crew), Luis Buñuel (actor), Luis Buñuel (actor), Maurice Schutz (actor), Maurice Schutz (actor), Jean Epstein (producer), Jean Epstein (writer), Jean Epstein (director), Sandra Milovanoff (actress), Nino Constantini (actor), René Ferté (actor), George Sand (writer), Alexej Bondireff (actor), Alex Allin (actor), Halma (actor),
Genres: Drama,A Scots Guardsman guarding the St. James's Palace entrance got angry and yelled at a dancing tourist in front of him. make way for the queen's guard scots guards queen's guard queens guard fail british guard foot guards household division angry queens guard angry british guard british army british infantry UK bearskin cap red tunics changing of the guard trooping the colour bbc queens guard yelling
The heat at the Queen's Trooping the Colour ceremony on June 17 was too much for a guardsman. He fainted during the performance at Horse Guards parade with the Royal Family and thousands of spectators watching. Five Guardsmen in total fainted during the ceremony and had to be stretchered off while the others marched on.
Queen's Guardsman poses for sweet snap with toddler who's dressed as Guard him 06/01/2017 Queen's Guardsman poses for sweet impromptu snap with toddler who's all dressed up as a mini version of him. The young boy was wearing summer version of a guardsman's uniform complete with red jacket and bearskin before Coldstream Guard beckoned him over for a snap. A young fan was given the surprise of his life when he went to see Changing the Guard at Windsor Castle and a soldier stopped for a photo. The tot, dressed in the summer version of a guardsman's uniform complete with red jacket and bearskin, looks in ore as the four soldiers march past. But what happens next has really amazed the youngster, who saluted as the men went past. After their official duty was complete, one of the four Coldst...
A QUEENS guardsman (SCOTS) saw red when a giggling student took the mickey out of him outside a royal palace by mimicking his actions - and went on the ATTACK. Columbian student Nick Ibarra, 23, began larking about for pal Suzanne Cadosch, 22, who was videoing the armed guard on duty in his bearskin and red tunic. As the guardsman marched up and down as he stood sentry duty outside St James Palace in front of dozens of tourists, laughing Nick marched alongside him. He had heard that the famed royal guards never leave their post unless a threat to the royals presents itself. But he got the shock of his life when this one lost his cool and quick marched over to him and clipped him round the back of the head and aimed a boot at him. Then according to Nick he pushed him away with his SA-80...
Taking 15,000 quick steps in full battle order that weighs almost 30kg is anything but easy. This is just one of the key tasks every trainee must pass to go to the next level of training in this intensive and tough 3-week Guards Conversion Course. Making the Cut looks at 122 full-time national servicemen and regulars from various SAF units, coming together for a single purpose, to attain the coveted khaki beret and to be part of the Guards family. In this first episode, watch how the Guardsmen trainees adapt to the high standards of discipline and training required of every Guardsman and their introduction to the dreaded 12km fast march. And watch how some try and overcome their fear of heights when they're introduced to cliff rappelling, every Guardsmen's staple of operations. Narrated...
-Available on DVD & Digital HD 12/1, Pre-Order Now: http://bit.ly/TheGrdsmn -Summary: When the Emperor travels in disguise to understand the problems that his people face, his enemies discover his identity and team up with Japanese pirates to assassinate him. Now, it is up to a group of loyal warriors to protect the Emperor and bring peace to the kingdom.
A guardsman collapses on Horse Guards Parade ahead of the Trooping the Colour parade to mark the Queen's official 90th birthday.
A guardsman has collapsed during the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London today as the Queen's official 90th birthday celebrations continue. The man fell to the floor early on during the festivities at Horse Guards Parade and was stretchered away by officials. It comes just a few weeks after another soldier collapsed during rehearsals for the event in May, while guardsman have collapsed before in recent years including 2013 and 2011.