Home Guard Collection

Dads Army actors at the opening of a new exhibition about the real Dads Army - the Home Guard at the Imperial War Museum Left to right are Private Godfrey played by Arnold Ridley

The Sutton Coalfield Battalion of the Warwickshire Home Guard paraded for inspection. Captain Wilfrid Bigwood the Commanding Officer

The folk of London on behalf of all Britain cheered and said "Well Done"
The folk of London on behalf of all Britain cheered and said " Well Done" as the Home Guard marched through the capital on the stand down parade

Home Guard armoured train with a 6-pounder gun mounted in the front. Location unknown apart from that is is in England. Picture circa 20th February 1944

British Parachute Squadron (actual regiment unknown) training group. Picture taken 2nd March 1942

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) under instruction for a drill. Caption suggest the male is Sergeant Withers. Picture taken 3rd October 1941

Troops in Bridport, Devon, are entertained in a mobile theatre. Picture taken 27th March 1941

Dr Eduard Outrata, the Czechoslovakia Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade, accompanied by Madam Outrata, visits South Wales this week. They are watching a lady operating a machine

People of James Reckitt Avenue, Hull, Yorkshire, look as the men dig the garden. It is likely that they are digging to build an air raid shelter

Members of the Home Guard seen here firing Z Battery short range anti aircraft missiles. July 1942

Picture shows The East Yorkshire Regiment, at Whitby, Yorkshire. The East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army

One of the most up to date mobile canteens in the country. The canteen aquired by The Liverpool Gas Company. It will be stationed Broadway

Anti aircraft machine gun on a submarine boat. These machine guns were used for close range use, as the war planes got closer and closer to their targets. Picture taken during training

Anti aircraft gun and army unit in the Hull and Yorkshire, or East Riding, area of England during World War Two. Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as " all measures

R A O C men learning the recovering of capsizes tanks at a Midlands training centre. England. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army

Dads Army, the Home Guard, in Bristol and Somerset between 1940 and 1942

Dads Army actor Arnold Ridley who plays Private Godfrey in the popular wartime comedy series, at the opening of a new exhibition about the real Dads Army - the Home Guard at the Imperial War Museum

Home Guard training in the construction of temporary and pontoon bridges whilst on manoeuvres. Circa 1941

Home Guard being given instruction in the Enfield Rifle whilst on training and manoeuvres. Circa 1941

Home Guard seen here in the swimming pool fully clothed during training and manoeuvres. Circa 1941

Home Guard seen here being drilled whilst on training and manoeuvres exercise. Circa 1941

Members of a Midland village Local Defence Volunteer organisation (LDV) receiving their orders during an exercise. 3rd July 1940

General de Gaulle shakes the hand of a Home Guard officer, Lt-Col. John H. Lewis. Looking on are the Lord Mayor, Norman Tiptaft, and also Col. Piggott

A crowd gathered in Victoria-square welcomed General de Gaulle, Commander of the Free French Forces, to Birmingham. The General visited the city to inspect a number of factories

General de Gaulle, Commander of the Free French Forces, arriving at the banqueting room at the Council House, Birmingham, for a civic luncheon given by the Lord Mayor

Home Guard Round Up Enemy"in Birmingham All-Night Test
Home Guard Round Up Enemy" in Birmingham All-Night Test. Incidents during the mock invasion operations in the Birmingham area 12th July 1941

Rocket projector drill for the Home Guard during the Second World War. West Midlands. 5th July 1942

The Suffolk Regiment with the B. E. F. (The British Expeditionary Force)
The Suffolk Regiment with the B.E.F. (The British Expeditionary Force). Pictures in the mess, having refreshments. The British Expeditionary Force was the name of the British Army in Western Europe

Picture taken at Number 56 (Woolwich) Squadron - air Training Corps. Picture shows Sir William Mitchell on Sunday morning 18th October 1942 on the front parade of the Royal Artillery Barracks

Picture shows Mrs Annie Kelly, boring a shaft of submarine. She is the wife of a crane driver in the same factory. Picture taken in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England. Picture taken 4th October 1944

From dusk to dawn, at an important un-named works in Birmingham, the works Home Guard man a specially built look-out tower

Scene at the cook house at the Reading Home Guard camp in Berkshire during the Second World War. 15th June 1942

Home Guard on parade in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. 1941

Members of the Reading Home Guard during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Womens Home Guard on parade at St Benedicts Square in Lincoln during the Second World War. 15th May 1944

A member of the Home Guard looks north across the River Thames, towards St Pauls Cathedral wreathed in flame and smoke as thousands of incendiary bombs are dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of

Bren guns being used in anti-air exercises by British Home Guard. August 1941

R. A. F. Flying Training Command train Army glider pilots who take their places in Airborne
R.A.F. Flying Training Command train Army glider pilots who take their places in Airborne Divisions. Army pilots in the making at a Glider Training School. A glider pupil pilot

Bren carriers come off landing craft during an exercise in Scotland. Picture taken circa 10th July 1941

Home Guard, West Lancs area. Practice at a North West Fort. January 1941

A demonstration in the method of dealing with an enemy tank by a platoon of the Home Guard to members of the Cheshire unit in Cheshire. 1st December 1940

Members of the Home Guard in the North West area who are undergoing a weeks camp training, seen handling various types of machine guns which have just arrived in large quantities from the United

Members of the Home Guard in Liverpool, watching a demonstration by the army in Anti Tank Warfare. The soldier throws a Molatov Cocktail into the flaming tank. Picture taken 19th August 1941

Lord Harrowby taking the salute at a parade of Walsall L. D. V. 19th July 1940
Lord Harrowby taking the salute at a parade of Walsall L.D.V. 19th July 1940

Men of A Company 3rd Battalion, Birmingham Home Guard, paraded at the Apollo Cinema, Pype Hayes in front of Captain S. A. Godsall MC 4th August 1940

Members of the L. D. V. seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them
Members of the L.D.V. seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them as instructors in physical and bayonet training

Captain S. A. Godsall MC addresses the men of A Company 3rd Battalion, Birmingham Home Guard, before they paraded at the Apollo Cinema, Pype Hayes 4th August 1940

Home Guard volunteers for the L. D. V. at Wolseley Motors Birmingham factory parading
Home Guard volunteers for the L.D.V. at Wolseley Motors Birmingham factory parading through the works gate. 13th July 1940

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