Home Guard jokes in Dumfries

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Allan Price on behalf of Andrew McCormick and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

There was one night during the war when I was walking home from school that I will never forget. Because of the blackouts even when you were walking home in late afternoon or early evening it was always quite dark. I was seven or eight at the time.

I was passing a road barricade, the type that were put up every night all over the town. It was being staffed by a member of the Home Guard. Just as I was passing him, he turned round, jammed his gun into my ribs, and shouted "who goes there!?".

He thought this was hillarious. I got the fright of my life.

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