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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > Regiments
Created in July 1940, the Home Guard was not entitled to use
military ranks until February 1941.All officers were then listed in
the Home Guard List that was compiled in seven separate section.
Each List gives details of all units proceeding down the chain of
command from Areas to Zones, Groups, and Battalions. Officers are
listed within their unit together with details of ranks (and dates)
and decorations. Some entries identify service in previous units.
These volumes allow for a much wider dissemination of this
information that identifies personnel that did Home Guard service
as officers and thus traces entitlements to the Defence Medal. This
is a very useful volume for military historians and collectors, as
well as family historians.
The Home Guard was created in July 1940, and all Officers were
listed in the Home Guard Lists which were issued at intervals
throughout the war, each covering one of the UK Military Commands.
These Command Lists give details of the relevant units down the
chain of command. Officers are listed by unit and rank (with
details of any decorations awarded during the Second World War up
to 1941 or previously). Some entries identify service in previous
units. These volumes are of great use to family and local
historians wanting to track down the commissioned service of
individuals; and for military enthusiasts and collectors they are
also a useful way of tracking military service and Defence Medal
entitlement. This volume on the South Eastern Command covers the
counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Created in July 1940, the Home Guard was not entitled to use
military ranks until February 1942, after which date all officers
appeared in the Home Guards Lists, each covering a different
Command. These Command Lists give details of relevant units
proceeding down the chain of command. Officers, together with their
Decorations (awarded for World War Two and before) are listed by
unit and rank; some entries identify service in previous units. The
volume has an alphabetical index. This is a good genealogical
source of reference for family and local historians. It also allows
military enthusiasts and collectors to identify Home Guard service
and thence Defence Medal entitlement. The Western Command is the
largest of the Commands, covered the western side of Great Britain
from Herefordshire, through Wales and Cheshire to the industrial
centres of Lancashire, then onwards to the Lakeland counties of
Cumberland and Westmoreland. On its eastern borders it encompassed
the Midland counties of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Shropshire
and Staffordshire.
During the course of the Second World War, the United States Army
raised and maintained eighty-nine combat divisions, including
sixteen armored divisions. Most of those units were created during
the war and served only for the duration of the conflict. After
going overseas and fighting to achieve victory, most of the World
War II divisions were disbanded and faded into obscurity.
This heavily illustrated narrative is the story of one of those
units, the 12th Armored Division, which trained on the plains of
West Texas at Camp Barkeley near Abilene. From its initial action,
to the liberation of Nazi death camps, to the ultimate victory and
peace, the division's story serves as a vehicle to study the many
temporary army units that served our country during its most trying
time.
Amidst the chaos of a two-front war--one against the Confederacy
and the other against the Dakota Indians--Brackett's Battalion of
Minnesota Cavalry transformed from raw recruits into seasoned and
battle-hardened troops and served longer than any other Minnesota
unit in the Civil War. After two years in the Southern theater of
the Civil War, Brackett's Battalion became part of the Northwestern
Indian Expedition of 1864 and rode into Dakota Territory to seek
out and engage the Indians in response to the attacks on settlers
in Minnesota. On July 28, 1864, during a decisive battle against a
large Dakota contingent at Killdeer Mountain, Brackett's men
conducted a remarkable three-mile-long saber charge that resulted
in vicious hand-to-hand combat and eventually turned the tide of
the battle. Told through the extant journals, diaries, and letters
of the troopers themselves, Brackett's Battalion brings to light a
long neglected aspect of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and
reveals a side of the conflict rarely portrayed in the war's
literature.
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