page_title: Guard of honour
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Guard of honour / Guards of honour by country / Oceania / Australia
caption_attribution_description: Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Australia’s Minister for Defence Marise Payne visit the Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Australia, June 5, 2017. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr)
context_page_description: A guard of honour, also honor guard, also ceremonial guard, is a guard, usually military in nature, appointed to receive or guard a head of state or other dignitaries, the fallen in war, or to attend at state ceremonials, especially funerals. In military weddings, especially those of commissioned officers, a guard, composed usually of service members of the same branch, form the Saber arch. In principle any military unit could act as a guard of honour. However, in some countries certain units are specially designated to serve as a guard of honour, as well as other public duties.
  Guards of Honour also serve in the civilian world for fallen police officers and other civil servants. Certain religious bodies, especially Churches of the Anglican Communion and the Methodist movement, have the tradition of an Honour Guard at the funeral of an ordained elder, in which all other ordained elders present "guard the line" between the door of the church and the grave, or hearse if the deceased is to be buried elsewhere or cremated. The practice of providing a guard of honour as a mark of respect also occurs in sports, especially throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.
context_section_description: The tri-service Federation Guard – consisting of members of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy – provides the guard of honour for various ceremonies. It is the only military unit of its kind currently in the Australian Defence Force. All members of the guard are enlisted in their respective areas before volunteering for service in the guard. They are armed with L1A1 SLR rifles.
caption: Australia's Federation Guard typically provides the guard of honour for official ceremonies in Australia.
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