Home Guard

Home Guard Duty in West Yorkshire

When he was sent on duty in the blackout he had to pick up the first helmet he came to... When I...

Looking for Hitler?

Daddy and uncle George were in the “Home Guard” and when daddy had to go away in the air-force,...

More on Suffolk Coast in Wartime.

Mr Alfred Creswell has already described the sinking of the Gypsy in Harwich Harbour. Ipswich Museum talked...

After the War

My Father was a Lieutenant in the Home Guard and, as such was issued with a Sten Gun. Dad carefully placed...

Memories of a Rothersthorpe farmer.

Sid North joined the Northampton Home Guard when it was set up in 1940. They had their own lorry and would...

My Dad in WW2

In 1942 my father, Eric Mears, who was a Bedfordian, joined the Home Guard... When the air raid siren went,...

Memories of the Home Guard

During the war as I was considered to e in a reserved occupation I joined the LDV; the Local Defence...

Home Guard Action

I was in the Edlington Home Guard and I can remember Conisbrough Home Guard used to attack us and we'd...

Your Country Needs You!

Eric Leggett recalls how he and his brother were gazing out of their sash window at the ocean wondering...

Exercises in Bemerton

On one occasion the local Home Guard was defending Bemerton against the “Germans” who were...

Walking Home from Hoveton

My husband recalls the time when walking home from school at Hoveton with friends, when they were shot at...

Capture of German Air Crew

Early in 1940, three members of our Home Guard Group from Witchampton and The Crichels were on night guard...

Local Defence Volunteers - Cranleigh

Some years ago I wrote a book called "Around Cranleigh" In there reference is made to the LDVs...

Balancing Act

On one particular occasion we went to Hilltop farm in Handsworth Wood, the barn was open ended so they put...

Bombs not Bloody Sandwiches

My father, Ernie Copley, was stationed in the Isle of Man during the Second World War, manning ant-aircraft...

Rubber Planes

I remember that I was evacuated to Creswell near Nottingham. The anti aircraft gunners had little rubber...

German Parachutists at Wolverhampton.

One evening I was instructed to meet a police car, and I was then driven with 3 other officers towards Penn...

Delivering messages

She volunteered and remembers taking her messages from the Welsh-speaking Tabernacle Chapel to the Home...

Home Guard at Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

The photograph that Pat Kelly submitted is of a Home Guard Unit assembled on the Spion Cop at Sheffield...

Sinking the Bismarck

My father, Charles Lucas, moved to Redditch from Birmingham when he was 15, in 1935... He joined Headless...

A Part-time Homeguard

Whilst serving with the local Home Guard in 1941I was a member of the first aid team, on an all night...

Scared Stiff

They piled into their Commanding Officers open top Bentley car armed with shotguns, slashers and...

John Gibson in the Home Guard

Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of John Gibson and has been added to the site with his permission....

Home Guard Rifle

My father, Ernest Hisgrove was in a reserved occupation during the war, but enlisted within the Home Guard,...

Night Watch

My Grandfather was a member of the Home Guard in Largs on the Ayrshire coast... What they did not know was...

Childhood During the War

My parents went to great lenghts to transport my brothers and mine our beds to under the stairs - thought...