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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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  • 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. (en)
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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 (en)
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  • High Peak Rifles (en)
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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. (en)
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  • 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (en)
  • High Peak Rifles (en)
  • 149th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA (en)
  • 40th Searchlight Regiment, RA (en)
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