High Peak Rifles
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 World War I and as an air defence unit during World War II. Its descendants remained in the Army Reserve until 2014.
10th (Wirksworth) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps11th (Matlock) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps149th (Sherwood Foresters) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery17th (Clay Cross) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps18th (Whaley Bridge) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps21st (Hartington) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps22nd (Staveley) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps2nd (Sudbury) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps2nd Administrative Battalion, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps3rd (Chesterfield) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps3rd Administrative Battalion, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery575 (The Sherwood Foresters) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers575th (6th Bn Sherwood Foresters) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery6th (High Peak Rifles of Buxton) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters7th (High Peak Rifles of Chapel-en-le-Frith) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps8th (Dove Valley) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps9th (High Peak Rifles of Bakewell) Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
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High Peak Rifles
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 World War I and as an air defence unit during World War II. Its descendants remained in the Army Reserve until 2014.
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