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[[File:Ultramarine Honour Guard Priest.png|right|thumb|250px200px|Ultramarines Honour Guard]]
The '''Ultramarines Honour Guard''' is a highly elite group of [[Marine]]s unique to the [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]]. In battle they act either as a group or as squad leaders. Each bears an [[Axe of Ultramar]], potent weapons constructed from a rare metal found on [[Prandium]]. Only the most courageous of the Ultramarines ever come close to earning this honour, and then only some of them will achieve it. They are responsible for guarding the Chapter's ancient banner, the [[Banner of Macragge]]. Members of the Honour Guard are dispersed throughout the Chapter's companies. When the banner is taken into battle by a company, a squad will be formed from the company's Honour Guard members.{{Fn|1}}
==Notable Honour Guard==
*Commander of the Guard [[Aloysius]] - — sacrificed his life to single-handily hold back the [[Swarmlord]] and its attending [[Tyrant Guard]] at Cold Steel Ridge during the [[Battle for Macragge]] to allow [[Marneus Calgar]], gravely wounded by the Swarmlord, to be evacuated off-world by the rest of his Honour Guard.{{Fn|2}}
*The [[Victrix Guard]] of [[Marneus Calgar]]
==Images==
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)]] - — ''Ultramarines Honour Guard''
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], p.13
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