In the UK, standards are interred
From The Army in London – HQ London District, the chronicle of how a circa-1953 unit standard was retired for good, to the cold earth.
Here lies The Sovereign’s Standard of the Royal Horse Guards
“Battered and tattered, its duties done, the once glorious gold and scarlet Standard of the Royal Horse Guards (Household Cavalry) was taken from its place of honour high in the rafters of the Royal Military Chapel in Wellington Barracks, placed in a shroud and, as prayers were said, troopers paid their respects, and a silver trumpet sounded the Last Post, it was laid reverentially to rest in the sacred soil of the Guards Chapel Garden in Birdcage Walk.”
Its final resting place, the Sovereign’s Standard is laid to rest in the sacred soil of the Guards Chapel Garden — at The Guards’ Chapel.