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  2. Home Guard Service Medal - Wikipedia

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    The Home Guard Service Medal ( Swedish: Hemvärnets tjänstgöringsmedalj, HVtjgSM/GM/GMmemalj) is a service medal awarded by the Swedish Home Guard. The award is given 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 veteran.

  3. Smith Gun - Wikipedia

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    3.185-inch (80.90 mm) [1] The Smith Gun was an ad hoc anti-tank artillery piece used by the British Army and Home Guard during the Second World War . With a German invasion of Great Britain seeming likely after the defeat in the Battle of France, most available weaponry was allocated to the regular British Army, leaving the Home Guard short on ...

  4. Home Guard (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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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 from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard had 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, such as those who were too young or too old to join the regular armed services (regular military service was restricted to those ...

  5. Home guard - Wikipedia

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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 defense. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting with units formed by German immigrants in Missouri, and may derive from possible historical use of the ...

  6. Home Guard Silver Medal - Wikipedia

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    Currently awarded. Established. 1951. Ribbon bar. The Home Guard Silver Medal ( Swedish: Hemvärnets silvermedalj, HvSM [1]) is a Swedish reward medal established in 1951 by the National Home Guard Council ( Rikshemvärnsrådet ). It is awarded for significant service contributed to the development of the Home Guard. [2]

  7. Blacker Bombard - Wikipedia

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    Men of the Saxmundham Home Guard prepare to fire a Blacker Bombard during training with War Office instructors, 30 July 1941. The Blacker Bombard, also known as the 29-mm Spigot Mortar, [1] was an infantry anti-tank weapon devised by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Blacker in the early years of the Second World War .

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