HOME GUARD curiosity...

[Mike1973]

Picked this little book up several years ago now, but it has been hiding in a box since then. Thought it was about time I did something with it, so just scanned it in to share it. A charming little momento of Home Guard life.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29051501@N08/sets/72157623198906527/

Great peice of local history, and as an illustrator I love the cartoons!


from the Forward -

This little collection of incidents, accidents, and what not, is intended to serve as a reminder of other and happier (?) days.
If, in years to come these recollections should survive (and we hope they will) and cheer an odd moment, then their purpose will have been fulfilled and the utmost achieved.
Bill Stevens, Reg Preece.

Thank you.

 

[Warden]

Excellent,

I was working through some of the stored wartime paperwork at my wife's (Edna) museum. Came across some wonderful Home Guard items.

Indeed if you go further back Edna used to work for the National Trust and held a WW2 historical event. As part of the event we interviewed a former Home Guardsman

http://livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/HFF-Edwardian/page6.html

Harry

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Oh! Wonderful "Dads Army"

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[Story]

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."

"Don't Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard", George Orwell, The Evening Standard, 8 January 1941