colour guard

noun

a military guard in a parade, ceremony, etc, that carries and escorts the flag or regimental colours

From front and left came a tempest of lead; again the colours--both--fell, and all the colour-guard.

A shot cut away the staff of their precious colours and killed the last man of the colour-guard.

Only one man of the colour-guard remains, but he carries out their gloriously torn flag in triumph.

Allan Gold, fighting with the 65th, took the colours from the last of the colour guard.

He was of the colour-guard, and all the colour-guard were laughing.

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