High Peak Rifles
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The High Peak Rifles, later 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army. First raised in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in 1860, it fought as infantry on the Western Front during the First World War and as an air defence unit during the Second World War. Its descendants remained in the Army Reserve until 2014.
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High Peak Rifles
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6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
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High Peak Rifles
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149th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA
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40th Searchlight Regiment, RA
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First World War:
* Hohenzollern Redoubt
* Gommecourt
* Easter Rising
* Hindenburg Line
* Polygon Wood
* Bourlon Wood
* German spring offensive
* Kemmel
* St Quentin Canal
* Hundred Days Offensive
Second World War:
* Battle of Britain
* The Blitz
* Siege of Dunkirk
* Rhine Crossing
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1860
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Lt-Col The Rev Bernard Vann, VC, MC
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High Peak Rifles
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The High Peak Rifles, later 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was a volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army. First raised in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in 1860, it fought as infantry on the Western Front during the First World War and as an air defence unit during the Second World War. Its descendants remained in the Army Reserve until 2014.
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2014
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1860
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Air Defence
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Infantry
