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D5273 - Sheepbridge Second World War Home Guard Unit, Chesterfield - 1940s-1970s
1 - Aubrey St Hilary Aubrey - 1940s-1975
2 - Platoon Membership - 1940s
3 - Orders and Training - 1940-1944
1 - Weekly Battalion Orders from Lieutenant Colonel J E Bird, Commanding Officer of the 6th Battalion Home Guard, Aug 1941 to May 1944, with gaps - 1941-1944
2 - Bundle of orders, instructions and memoranda - 1940-1944
3 - Dispositions of "B" Company on "Action Stations": map showing locations of platoon headquarters and roadblocks, and listing of number of men to be employed at each station. Map dated May 1943 - 1943
4 - Suggested syllabus of questions for a proficiency test for the 6th Derbyshire (Chesterfield Borough) Battalion Home Guard; and details of rifle tests to be passed by all candidates - 1940s
5 - Newspaper cutting: "Hints for Home Guards", 24 Aug 1940 - 1940
6 - Newspaper cutting: "Hints for Home Guards", 28 Sep 1940 - 1940
7 - Army Training Instruction No 6, "Air Forces in Support of the Army", 1941 - 1941
8 - Popular Guide to the German Army, No 5, Recce Unites, 1941 - 1941
9 - Army Training Memorandum No 41, "How Do You Measure Up?", 1941 - 1941
10 - Home Guard Instruction No 24, "Protection Against Gas", 1941 - 1941
11 - Home Guard Instruction No 38, "Winter Training 1941-1942", 1941 - 1941
12 - Home Guard Instruction No 44, "Scale of issue of training publications", 1942 - 1942
13 - Army Training Memorandum No 44 [no title], 1942 - 1942
14 - Home Guard Instruction No 50, "Winter Training for 1942-1943", 1942 - 1942
15 - Home Guard Instruction No 52, "Scale of issue of training publications", 1942 - 1942
16 - Amendments to Home Guard Instructions, 1943 - 1943
17 - Home Guard Instruction No 60, "Miscellaneous notes - weapon training" - 1940s
18 - North Midland District Home Guard Squad Commander's Hand Book, 1943 - 1943
19 - "A message to the Home Guard" by John Langdon-Davies, no date - 1940s
21 - Fire Precaution Orders Army Form G936 - 1942
22 - Extracts from Army Training Memorandum No 45 [no title] - 1943
23 - Home Guard Information Circular No 33 [no title] - 1943
24 - Miscellaneous typescript training notes - 1941-1944
4 - Miscellaneous - 1915-post 1945
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