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  2. Home Guard (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    To disperse British regular forces around the country to provide rapid response cover for potential drop areas would severely deplete the main Home Defence order of battle, but that role appeared tailor-made for local Home Guard units and so throughout 1940 and 1941, defence against paratroops dominated much Home Guard thinking and training.

  3. Category:British Home Guard soldiers - Wikipedia

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  4. Home guard - Wikipedia

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    Home Guard (New Zealand) (1940–1943) Home Guard (United Kingdom) (1940–1944) Home Service Force, British force for the 1980s-90s. Indian Home Guard, units raised from Indian tribes to support the Unionists in the American Civil War; Kikuyu Home Guard, a government paramilitary force in Kenya (1953–1955) Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (1919 ...

  5. Category:British Home Guard officers - Wikipedia

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  6. Ulster Defence Volunteers - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in Britain, where the Home Guard were administered through their county Territorial Army Associations and swore a military oath of allegiance to the Crown, the UDV were Special Constables. As such the initial official name was the "Local Defence Volunteers Section, Ulster Special Constabulary".

  7. Home Service Force - Wikipedia

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    The Home Service Force (HSF [1]) was a Home Guard type force established in the United Kingdom in 1982. Each HSF unit was placed with either a Regular Army or Territorial Army regiment or battalion for administrative purposes and given that formation's title, cap badge and recruited from volunteers aged 18–60 with previous British forces (TA or regular) experience.

  8. Blacker Bombard - Wikipedia

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    Home Guard soldiers training with a Bombard on a fixed concrete mounting (May 1943) An abandoned Bombard emplacement, Brompton, Kent (2007) The first Bombards appeared in late 1941, [19] and were issued to both regular and Home Guard units; [20] in Southern Command, no more were issued after July 1942. By that time, approximately 22,000 ...

  9. Home Service Battalions - Wikipedia

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    1939 Home Defence poster. During British re-armament in the mid-1930s, the Royal Defence Corps was disbanded and replaced by the National Defence Companies, a part-time force which was part of the Territorial Army (TA) and open to ex-servicemen between the ages of 45 and 60 years. [4]