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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

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Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

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