Former volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army
High Peak Rifles 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 40th Searchlight Regiment, RA 149th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA
Active
1860–2014
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Territorial Army
Role
Infantry Air Defence
Garrison/HQ
Chesterfield
Engagements
2nd Boer War
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
Commanders
Notable commanders
Lord George Cavendish Lt-Col The Rev Bernard Vann, VC, MC
Military unit
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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