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2 unusual facts about guard of honour


Lee Bullen

Bullen was given a Guard of honour by his Wednesday team mates as he left the pitch for the final time.

March of the Iron Will

Further on, an Italian guard of honor, which accompanied the advance guard for this very purpose, paid Badoglio the same courtesy.


Canadian Coronation Contingent

The Canadian Coronation Contingent is a guard of honour, composed of members of the Canadian Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assembled distinctly for participation in the coronation ceremonies of the Canadian monarch in London, England.


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Giovannino Guareschi

The President is at the Quirinal Palace, surrounded by, instead of the presidential guard of honour (the corazzieri), by giant bottles of Nebbiolo wine, which Einaudi actually produced in his land in Dogliani.

Irish National War Memorial Gardens

A state commemoration to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 2006, was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Members of the Oireachtas, leading representatives of all political parties in Ireland, the Diplomatic Corps of the Allies of World War I, delegates from Northern Ireland, representatives of the four main Churches, and solemnly accompanied by a Guard of Honour of the Irish Army and Army Band.

Irish neutrality

At the border the Guard of Honour performed a drill with reversed arms, a Bugler sounded the Last Post and a Chaplain gave a Blessing.

J. C. A. Corea

The Prefects of Royal College Colombo lined the exit of the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake, as a guard of honour, when his ashes were flown to Colombo, draped with the Royal College flag.

Musa Mwariama

The most famous photograph of him is with President Jomo Kenyatta on attainment of Uhuru (independence) in 1963 and most of the post war Mau Mau video clips show him inspecting a Mau Mau guard of honour or with President Jomo Kenyatta.

Pious Workers of St. Joseph Calasanctius of the Mother of God

At Vienna, which has been so far the chief scene of their activity, in addition to undertaking the works already mentioned, they have taken charge of the reformatory (1904), have opened a public library and have founded among other associations a Guard of Honour of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

William Cosgrove

About five hundred members of the O.C.A. of the R.M.F. Association met the vessel at Penrose Quay and formed a guard of honour as the coffin was taken from the boat to the waiting hearse.