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    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 armed citizen militia supporting the British Army during the Second World War. Operational...
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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 Home Guard of India is a volunteer force tasked to be an auxiliary to the Indian police. The Home Guards Organisation was reorganised in India in 1966...
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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 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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    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 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • administered by the Ministry of Defence. It traces its roots to the Home Guards which were lightly armed local volunteers organized to protect their...
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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 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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    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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    Volkssturm (redirect from German Home Guard)
    Volkspistole Wachdienst Werwolf Other nations: Black Brigades (Italy) Home Guard (United Kingdom) Volunteer Fighting Corps (Japan) Also see: Berd Wegner...
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Chief of Defence and the Defence Command) and the Danish Home Guard (through the Home Guard Command). De facto the Danish Cabinet is the commanding authority...
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  • The Auxiliary Units, Home Guard Shock Squads or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret quasi military units created by the British government...
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  • to Home Guard soldiers, Home Guard musicians and volunteer staff with a valid Home Guard contract and to those who remain in the Home Guard as a Home Guard...
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    Home Guard Command (Danish: Hjemmeværnskommandoen), is the Danish Home Guard's top authority and is a level one authority reporting directly to the Ministry...
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  • 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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