Guard mounting

They originated with peacetime and battlefield military drills introduced to enhance unit cohesion and effectiveness in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

[12] The program formally falls under the command structure of the Ceremonial Guard, although its volunteers may wear the full dress uniform of their respective units/service.

Several non-military organizations also perform reenactments of past and historical guard mountings ceremonies in New Brunswick, and at Citadel Hill in Halifax.

A pair of mounted units lead the Central Band, Drums and Bugles of the Carabineros and the new guard, to the plaza in front of La Moneda where the departing detachment meets them.

The ceremony is an important tourist attraction that takes place in the Plaza de la Constitución on alternate days at 10 a.m.

Soldiers of the Ceremonial Unit of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces guard the Mausoleum of José Marti in Santiago de Cuba.

Public duties by the regiment are also provided by a four-man team at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Millennium Monument on Hősök tere (Heroes Square).

Since the leadership of president Joko Widodo, the changing of the guard ceremony at Merdeka Palace has been performed by the elite presidential force of Indonesia known as Paspampres.

A ceremonial changing of the guard is held at the President of India's official place of residence, the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

On the occasions of the Festival of the Tricolour on January 7, the anniversary of the unification of Italy on March 17 and the Italian Republic Day on June 2, the Changing of the Guard at the Quirinal Palace is performed in its solemn form by the Corazzieri Regiment and by the mounted band of the Carabinieri 4th Cavalry Regiment, with the guards wearing their ceremonial dress uniforms and riding horses.

Every other day the Changing of the Guard takes place at the same hour, 18:00 during the summer and 16:00 for the rest of the year, and involves a military band from every service branch of the Italian Armed Forces and/or the State Police and other services (Vigili del Fuoco, Red Cross, and Prisons Police) only if the President is in the Palace.

Units forming for the regular mounting in various parts of Rome come from, aside from servicemen from the Carabineri, various units of the Italian Army, Navy, Air Force and the Financial Guard, and even the Italian State Police, and their respective bands provide the musical accompaniment to the Quirinal Palace ceremony.

[20] A changing of the guard ceremony at the police headquarters is also held by female personnel of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the JCF Band.

[23] The Changing of the Guard takes place in front of the Istana Negara, Jalan Duta in Kuala Lumpur daily at 12 o'clock, with the 1st Battalion, Royal Malay Regiment of the Malaysian Army providing the guard alongside the Mounted Ceremonial Squadron of the Malaysian Royal Armoured Corps.

The famous parade uniform dating from 1860, which consists of a wide-brimmed hat with black plume, dark blue tunic and trousers with white stripes, is worn on the more prestigious palace and fortress watches.

The Kremlin Regiment (Kremlyovskiy polk) of the Federal Protective Service provides the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier in Moscow.

During the Soviet period the ceremony (known in Russian as the Смена караула, Smena karaula) was carried out by what was then a KGB guard detachment at the Lenin Mausoleum.

However, by decree of President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin the guard has now been relocated to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden.

Starting in 2004 a Guard Mounting ceremony has been held by the Cavalry Squadron of the Kremlin Regiment on Cathedral Square every Sunday from March to October.

[27] The Guardia di Rocca conduct a Changing the Guard ceremony at the Palazzo Pubblico from April to September every half-hour from 8:30am to 6:30pm.

Held on the first Sunday of each month, the ceremony begins behind The Heeren, a shopping mall at Orchard Road, where military policemen from the Silent Precision Drill Squad of the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command (SAFMPC) leads the contingent of new guards in a march down the road towards the Istana, with the Singapore Armed Forces Bands providing music and beats.

In Spain there is a guard mounting ceremony at the Royal Palace of Madrid on the first Wednesday every month from 12 midday to 2:00 pm (except during July, August, and September), weather permitting, as long as it does not coincide with another official event.

Aside from this, the 1st King's Immemorial Infantry Regiment of AHQ does Guard Mounting Ceremonies on weekdays at noon at the Buenavista Palace in Madrid, the headquarters of the Spanish Army, and is also open to the public.

The Changing of the guard at Stockholm Palace, the official residence of the King and Queen of Sweden, occurs daily in its outer courtyard.

A Changing of the guard ceremony takes place at Bangkok's Grand Palace every day with soldiers from the 1st Infantry Regiment King's Own Bodyguards of the Royal Security Command.

It takes place at the Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque, National Museum of Turkmenistan and the Independence Monument in Ashgabat and involves 6 guardsmen and a relief commander.

[40] In 2008, the 1st Battalion, Royal Malay Regiment became the first country where the British Sovereign is not head of state to mount the guard.

The Humble High School JROTC program has since 2007 reenacted the changing of the guard during its Veteran's Day ceremony with cadets enrolled.

The mausoleum contains the preserved body of Ho Chi Minh and is at the north end of Hanoi's Ba Đình Square, exactly on the spot where he read the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945.

Personnel assigned to the guard wear a white full-dress uniform with a peaked cap and gold belt buckle.