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Soldier from the 51st Surrey Battalion Home Guard is silhouetted against the bomb shattered window of the Baptist Chapel in Kingston Road following...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Members of the Home Guard practising combat techniques during manoeuvres.

Home Guard In Action

Men from all branches of the London Transport Board are in the Board's own Home Guard, and carry out regular training exercises, including learning...

Transport Home Guard

Home Guard unit set off on their bicycles for manoeuvres, 9 April 1941. 'Bulmer, near Sudbury, Suffolk, is setting a fine example by making a double...

Home Guard unit set off on their bicycles for manoeuvres, 1941

The Home Guard 1939-1945, The Home Guard: A squad of Home Guards prepare to deal with an invader by means of Molotov cocktails during training in the...

The Home Guard 1939-1945

Policeman and a soldier of the Home Guard walk past vehicles wrecked during a German bombing raid near Marble Arch, London.

Wrecked Vehicles

Men of the Home Guard, the home defence militia, during a training exercise.

Home Guard Trains

Home Guardsman handles a Tommy gun during a training session at the War Office School in Surrey. Original Publication: Picture Post - 295 - The Home...

Home Guard members being instructed in German phrases, 21 September 1940. The men are looking at a blackboard on which a number of commands are...

Home Guard members being instructed in German

Officers of the Home Guard learn to throw hand grenades during a training course at a War Office Tactical School in the British countryside, 1941. 75...

Sergeant instructor of the regular British Army Coldstream Guards gives a demonstration in unarmed self defence combat to a unit of the London...

Army cooks demonstrate how to use machine guns at a Home Guard training school, ca. 1941.

Cooks Give Machine Gun Demonstration, ca. 1941

Female recruits for the Women's Auxiliary Home Guard march on parade through Whitehall on 23rd July 1942 at Whitehall in London, England .

World War Two: Home Front 1942

Home Guard members during Saturday drill, 3 August 1940. 'The Mayor of Hackney inspecting a section of the Hackney Air Raid Wardens during their...

Home Guard members during Saturday drill, 1940

Members of the Home Guard, the home defence division of the British Army, enact a play during World War II, 1941. Major Liddell, MC, Commanding...

Home Guard Theatre

View of Local Defence Volunteers from the British Army's Home Guard listening to a lecture on improvised traps and weapons by their instructor...

British Army Home Guard Training School

Members of the Reading Home Guard jumping ditches on the blitz course, a formidable assault course, 15th June 1942.

Reading Home Guard on Exercise

Group of factory girls in the south of England, who style themselves the Women's Home Guard and undertake regular rifle drill with the aim of home...

Women's Home Guard

Man throwing a smoke bomb or dummy grenade during Home Guard exercises at the War Office Training School in Osterley Park, London, September 1940. A...

Home Guard In Training

British recruitment poster for Home guard; world war two 1940.

MPs practice 'spotting' from behind a wall of sandbags whilst visiting a Home Guard instruction centre, 21st August 1940. Pictured are Mr 'Charlie...

Home Guard Recruits

Soldier of the Home Guard aims his rifle out of the window during exercises.

Three soldiers of the Home Guard with a wrecked Messerschmitt warplane shot down over south-east England. The man on the right points to the seven...

Aircraft Wreckage

Line-up of Home Guards of the R-Zone preparing for camouflage exercise.

Summer camp for members of the Post Office Home Guard, includes battle drill, fire discipline and weapon handling. A well camouflaged Lewis gun team...

Group of muddy Home Guard soldiers stands in formation as a civilian official greets them during an inspection, UK, circa 1941.

Home Guards Inspection

The First Platoon of A Company of the 10th Gloucestershire Home Guard Battalion on parade at a cricket ground during World War Two, on 19th September...

British Home Guard Platoon On Parade - World War Two

Members of the Chrysler Factory Detachment of the 63rd Surrey Battalion Home Guard Womens Auxiliary Service marching on parade through Kew Park circa...

World War Two: Home Front 1943

Members of the 2nd Battalion, Berkshire Home Guard at work harvesting bushels of oats for animal forage on Sir Hugo Cunliffe Owen 's horse racing...

World War Two: Home Front 1942

Members of the Bulmer and Belchaump Home Guard, supporting the British Army, march with their recently issued pikes down a snow covered road in...

Essex Home Guard

Members of the Home Guard, supporting the British Army on patrol duty, man a defensive fighting position atop the White Cliffs of Dover between the...

Defending Dover From Attack

Member of the Home Guard on duty on the chalk cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, during World War II, June 1941.

Protecting The Coast

Rifles stand stacked ready while farmhands in the uniform and forage caps of parashooters carry on their work at an Essex farm. Every man in the...

Jack Potter Home Guard

Members of the British Home Guard undergo training with Lewis Guns on a shooting range during World War II, 19th March 1941.

Lewis Gun Training

Britain on Guard' . On 14th May 1940, Prime Minister Eden announced the formation of a Home Guard of Local Defence Volunteers, many of whom were...

'Britain on Guard', 1940, (1940)

Hitler has called to arms all able-bodied men between 16 and 60, under the command of Himmler, to form the German Home Guard or Volkssturm. Men swear...

British Home Guards in training.

Home Guard training in how to throw hand grenades, using pieces of concrete or lead piping for practice purposes.

Soldier of the Home Guard with rifle. Original Publication: Picture Post - 295 - The Home Guard Can Fight - pub. 1940

Alsager Home Guards Parade. A Company of Alsager Home Guards on the march with Captain J. Swindells is at the head, 14th September 1940

Alsager Home Guards Parade, 1940

Lord Harrowby, inspecting members of the Staffordshire Home Guard at Stone. With members of the Home Guard is Pipe Major Ross. 16th December 1940

Lord Harrowby, Inspecting Members Of The Staffordshire Home Guard At Stone, 1940

Officers tackling the 'enemy' during a Northern Command training exercise involving local Home Guard and Air Raid Precautions personnel, during the...

World War II - Home Guard & ARP Training Exercise

Twenty units of the Amazon Defense Corps have been trained by England's Home Guard in preparation for a Nazi invasion, London, England, August 10,...

Londons Amazon Defense Corps

Crowds look on as massed units of Home Guard troops march along Regents Street during the 'Stand Down' parade on 3rd December 1944 in London,...

World War Two: Home Front 1944

Sir Basil Brooke takes the salute from a flotilla of river cruisers and motorboats of the LDV Home Guard river patrol on 26th July 1940 along the...

LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) Home Guard 1940

Sergeants of the Local Defense Volunteers Home Guard undertake rifle drill training with the Pattern 1914 Enfield bolt action rifle through a smoke...

Members of the Aston Clinton platoon of Local Defence Volunteers from the British Army's Home Guard take part in a woodland fighting exercise near...

Home Guard Platoon On Exercise

Brigadier General James Whitehead of the British Army inspects a contingent of Home Guard militia members at a barracks in London during World War II...

Home Guard Inspection

The giant British transatlantic liner, Queen Mary, is pictured from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter as it arrived in New York Bay bringing more than...

Aerial View of Queen Mary Arriving with Troops

Member of the LDV forerunner of the Home Guards, getting some rifle practice.

Home Guard Training

Captured German Luftwaffe aircrew prisoners of war are escorted under British military guard through Liverpool Street Station in London on their way...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Members of the Home Guard with their racing pigeons in Blackburn, Lancashire, during World War II, 31st July 1940. The pigeons are being trained as...

Messenger Pigeons

Hundreds of drums of gasoline rolling up on the sands of Luzon from Coast Guard-manned landing craft tell graphically why the home front motorists...

Marines and Coast Guards on amphibious vehicles, heading back home following a successful Pacific Campaign in Kwajalein Atoll during World War Two,...

Home Guard Inspection. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Percival Heywood inspects the decorations of a veteran of the last war at the parade of the...

Home Guard Inspection, 1940

Lance Corporal Harding, a Local Defence Volunteer from the Home Guard, styles the hair of factory inspector Lilian Lee prior to taking part in a...

Wartime Hair Styling

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: circa 1940, Great Britain, A policeman stands on watch as a group of men sign up for voluntary duty for the...

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: circa 1940, Great Britain, A policeman stands on watch as a group of men sign up for voluntary duty for the Home Guard

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: circa 1940, Great Britain, An elderly new recruit on parade for the Home Guard

War and Conflict. World War Two. pic: circa 1940. Great Britain. An elderly new recruit on parade for the Home Guard.

Men queue at a London police station in order to volunteer for the Home Guard, 1940.

Men Queue to Join Home Guard

Members of the Home Guard firing from a sandbag emplacement during exercises at the War Office Training School in Osterley Park, London, September...

Home Guard In Training

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