standard-bearer
Sign in to savethumb|right|220px|A lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards bears the Regimental Colours during an inspection of No. 7 Company, prior to the start of the ceremonial season. thumb|right|220px|17th-century copy by Gerrit Lundens of The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch aka The Night Watch with lines added indicating the areas cut down from the original painting in 1715
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thumb|right|220px|A lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards bears the Regimental Colours during an inspection of No. 7 Company, prior to the start of the ceremonial season. thumb|right|220px|17th-century copy by Gerrit Lundens of The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch aka The Night Watch with lines added indicating the areas cut down from the original painting in 1715
thumb|right|220px|Mitrofan Grekov (1934), Trumpeter and standard-bearer in the [[Russian Civil War.]] A standard-bearer, also known as a colour-bearer or flag-bearer, is a person who bears an emblem known as a standard or military colours, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (and often honoured) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc. This can either be an occasional duty, often seen as an honour (especially on parade), or a permanent charge (also on the battlefield); the second type has even led in certain cases to this task being reflected in official rank titles such as Chorąży, Ensign, Cornet, Fähnrich and Alferes/Alférez.