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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. 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 ...

  4. Bedford OXA - Wikipedia

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    Service history; In service: 1940-1942: Production history; Manufacturer: ... The vehicle was used by regular British Army units in 1940 and British Home Guard units ...

  5. Household Division - Wikipedia

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    The Household Division was once responsible for mounting the guard to several institutions in London. In 1819, the Household Division maintained ten separate guard mountings for 89 sentry posts. These include the Armoury Guard, the British Museum Guard, the Kensington Palace Guard, the King's Guard , the Magazine Guard, the Military Asylum ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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]

  8. Auxiliary Units - Wikipedia

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    This was to counter the civilian Home Defence Scheme already established by SIS (MI6), but outside War Office control. The Auxiliary Units answered to GHQ Home Forces but were legally an integral part of the Home Guard. In modern times, the Auxiliary Units have sometimes misleadingly been referred to as the "British Resistance Organisation". [5]

  9. Category:British Home Guard soldiers - Wikipedia

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