Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local...
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The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the 'Home Forces' of the British Army during...
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The Danish Home Guard (Danish: Hjemmeværnet) (HJV) is the fourth service of the Danish Armed Forces. It was formerly concerned only with the defence of...
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The Home Guard – National Security Forces (Swedish: Hemvärnet – Nationella skyddsstyrkorna) is a military reserve force of the Swedish Armed Forces. It...
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The Slovene Home Guard (Slovene: Slovensko domobranstvo, SD; German: Slowenische Landeswehr) was a Slovene anti-Partisan collaborationist militia that...
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The Home Guard of India is a volunteer force tasked to be an auxiliary to the Indian Police Service (IPS). The Home Guards Organisation was reorganised...
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The Norwegian Home Guard (Norwegian: Heimevernet – "HV") is the rapid mobilization force within the Norwegian armed forces. Its main focus is local defense...
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Roland Penrose (redirect from Home Guard Manual of Camouflage)
volunteered as an air raid warden and then taught military camouflage at the Home Guard training centre at Osterley Park. This led to Penrose's commission as...
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The Home Guard of the several states of the Confederacy during the American Civil War included all able-bodied white males between the ages of 18 and 50...
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The Kikuyu Home Guard (also Home Guard or Kikuyu Guard) was a government paramilitary force in Kenya from early 1953 until January 1955. It was formed...
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The King's Guard (called the Queen's Guard when the reigning monarch is female) are sentry postings at Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace, organised...
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In the American Civil War the Home Guard or Home Guards were local militia raised from Union loyalists. In Missouri after the start of the Civil War there...
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The Indian Home Guard was a series of volunteer infantry regiments recruited from the Five Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory to support the Union...
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French Guards. National Guard may refer to: National Guard (Mauritania) Tunisian National Guard, a separate military force of Tunisia National Guard (Brazil)...
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Croatian Home Guard may refer to several historic military formations: Royal Croatian Home Guard (1868–1918), regular army of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia...
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The Home Guard: School March for Piano is a song from 1910 written by M. Greenwald and published by Will Wood. "The Home Guard: School March for Piano"...
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Home Guards (Veszettek) is a 2015 Hungarian drama film. It is one of the most expensive movies made in Hungary, with a budget of Euro 2.2 million. It...
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The Louisville Home Guard was a pro-Union military unit organized early in the American Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky. The auxiliary militia served...
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Norwegian Armed Forces (section Norwegian Home Guard)
the Royal Norwegian Navy, which includes the Coast Guard, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, the Home Guard, and Norwegian Cyber Defence Force as well as several...
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The Croatian Home Guard (Croatian: Hrvatsko domobranstvo) was the land army part of the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia which existed...
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83rd Home Guard Battalion (Sisak) 84th Home Guard Battalion (Bjelovar) 87th Home Guard Battalion (Gospić) 88th Home Guard Battalion (Ogulin) 89th Home Guard...
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Chief of Home Guard, also called the Chief of the National Swedish Home Guard (Swedish: Rikshemvärnschefen, RiksHvC) is the Swedish Home Guard chief representative...
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Volkssturm (redirect from German Home Guard)
Wachdienst Werwolf Niederkaina massacre Other nations: Black Brigades (Italy) Home Guard (United Kingdom) Volunteer Fighting Corps (Japan) Also see: Berd Wegner...
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the 1st Guards Brigade, the 143rd Home Guard Brigade and the 137th Home Guard Regiment. Other HV units joined them by evening. The 2nd Guards Brigade...
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The Home Guard was a wartime armed service during World War II that was established with the primary objective of defending New Zealand from the threat...
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Service President's Home Guard and Civil Defence Medal for Gallantry Home Guard and Civil Defence Medal for Gallantry President's Home Guard and Civil Defence...
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internal affairs of the state of Maharashtra, including Maharashtra Police, Home Guard and fire services. 17 May 1977 – 14 March 1995 "Maharashtra Cabinet portfolios...
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Ulster Defence Volunteers (redirect from Ulster Home Guard)
and later the Ulster Home Guard were a force recruited by the Government of Northern Ireland to perform the role of the Home Guard in Northern Ireland...
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Dad's Army (redirect from Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard)
Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft...
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Swedish Army (section Home Guard)
trains Home Guard troops. The currently active regiments and their main peacetime subordinate units are: Life Guards (LG), in Stockholm Life Guards Battalion...
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