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Collapse D5273 - Sheepbridge Second World War Home Guard Unit, Chesterfield - 1940s-1970s

D5273 - Sheepbridge Second World War Home Guard Unit, Chesterfield - 1940s-1970s

Expand 1 - Aubrey St Hilary Aubrey - 1940s-1975

1 - Aubrey St Hilary Aubrey - 1940s-1975

Expand 2 - Platoon Membership - 1940s

2 - Platoon Membership - 1940s

Expand 3 - Orders and Training - 1940-1944

3 - Orders and Training - 1940-1944

Collapse 4 - Miscellaneous - 1915-post 1945

4 - Miscellaneous - 1915-post 1945

1 - "Useful hints for machine gunners on active service", 1915: with manuscript notes on "5 Platoon", dated 23 Nov 1918, found loose inside - 1915-1918

2 - Battalion Orders from Lieutenant Colonel V. O. Robinson, Commanding 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) A A Battalion, Royal Engineers, December 1938 - 1938

3 - Government pamphlet advertising savings and war loans - 1940s

4 - Blank form for enrolment in the Local Defence Volunteers (Home Guard) - 1940s

5 - List of items normally supplied to Home Guard forces, with prices at November 1942 - 1942

6 - Order of service, Parade service on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the Home Guard, at Chesterfield Parish Church, 16 May 1943 - 1943

7 - "The Summer of Dunkirk" by Arthur Bryant and "The Great Miracle" by Edward Shanks, reprinted from the Daily Sketch of 3 and 4 June 1943 - 1943

8 - Menus for Home Guard Annual Dinners 1944, No 5 Platoon 'B' Company 6th Derbyshire Battalion (Chesterfield Borough) 1945 - 1944-1945

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

National Coal Board

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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