Home Guard Collection (page 2)

Inside a British coastal Sea Fort. Picture shows the soldiers manning the defence gun. Location unknown. North of England is suggested on the caption. Picture taken circa 17th February 1942

A. T. S. (The Auxiliary Territorial Service) telephonists in a Command Post receiving news
A.T.S. (The Auxiliary Territorial Service) telephonists in a Command Post receiving news of an air attack. Miss J. Houston (right - from Liverpool) and Miss A

Home Guards in North Wales lowering a stretcher down a cliff face. Picture taken 10th November 1943

Home Guard training in North Wales. A stretcher casualty attached to a rope cable is transported across a river during the exercise, Picture taken 10th November 1943

Mobile Canteen presented to Liverpool in Merseyside, by East Liverpool in Ohio, America. The Lord Mayor Alderman Sidney Jones pictured having his tea. Picture taken 5th June 1941

A squad of the Home Guard prepare to deal with an "invader"
A squad of the Home Guard prepare to deal with an " invader" by means of a Molotov cocktail during training exercises in the Dover and Folkestone areas of Kent during the Second World War

The entrance to Dudley Parish Church, bare the scars of a raid on the city. 6th September 1940

First Home Guard in Britain to carry the red ensign of official parades will be the Sandhurst Home Guard. Picture shows Mr Kirkland Bridge of the Merchant Navy Comforts Services handing over at a

Men and Ladies from a regiment (unknown) at an Army Camp in England (location unknown) move quickly to their position after an alarm is raised. Picture taken 3rd August 1940

Liverpool Home Guard, training. Merseyside A battle practice assault is rehearsed. Picture taken 15th September 1942

Parachute Troop. special Air Service on ground training. Location suggests Flint, Manchester, on the back of the picture. Picture taken 27th February 1941

Home Guard attacking a tank with a Molotov Cocktail during an exercise. 31st August 1940

Men of the Home Guard taking part in a training exercise with the aid of a Valentine tank. 8th August 1941

Messerschmitt plane downed in the waters around Dover, Kent, during the July to October 1940, Battle of Britain. Picture taken 24th September 1940

A German plane downed in the English Channel by Spitfires, during the July to October 1940, Battle of Britain. Picture taken 11th August 1940

Evacuation. The children happily play by the fireside with their new guardians in their new, hopefully safer, home away from London d East End, during World War Two

St George Orphanage. Children making camouflage nets. Caption is hard to read, but it very much looks like this is St Georges House Police Orphanage, Harrogate, Yorkshire

General De Gaulle paid a visit to a midland tank factory, and he is seen here chatting to a member of the Home Guard, who is a winner of the Croix de Guerre. October 1941

In May 1940, just a month before the Battle of Britain, a small group of local Defence Volunteers from Nottingham and the surrounding districts

The war Office announces that 500, 000 capes will be delivered for issue to the Home Guard by the end of the year. The cape, of knee length, is made of battle dress material

Should the enemy attempt to land seaplanes on Lake Windermere, one of Britains largest lakes, he will meet with strong and effective resistance from the Home Guard " marines"

Miss Joan Stoner, a former Brighton hairdresser and now with the WLA (The Womens Land Army ) on horseback rounding up a herd of Deodora Gurnsey cows, owned by local farmer Mr Thomas Hopkins

Picture shows King Haakon of Norway, inspecting The Home Guard. Picture possibly taken at Wembley Stadium, North London. Picture taken 24th August 1943

Picture shows a new anti concussion helmet. Picture taken 1st July 1940

The London Savings Bank are now running a Womens Home Defence Unit and are being trained by the Company of Home Guards from The Bank Unit

The home guard, display and training. Picture possibly taken in Chatham, Kent. (Not confirmed it is Chatham, as handwritten caption hard to read - but looks like it reads Chatham)

British Army in training in the countryside. Wearing camouflage. Picture taken 11th July 1941

British army street gifting training. Location unknown. Picture taken 23rd May 1944

Training picture. The British Army on a training exercise. Somewhere in England. Location unknown Picture 22nd May 1944

A ceremonial parade by The Home Guard at Conisbrough Castle, near Doncaster Yorkshire. Sir Walter Scott used the location of Conisbrough Castle for his 1819 novel Ivanhoe

A lady working in a munitions factory. She is using what looks to be a bow saw. Location unknown Picture taken 22nd June 1942

Welsh Fusiliers Regiment. A soldier takes the regiment mascot for a walk. His horns are painted gold, and they pass a soldier playing the drum. Picture taken 18th July 1942

War munition workers. Two ladies. Picture taken 2nd April 1941

War munition workers. A lady in her thick rubber protective overall. Picture taken 6th June 1942

Soldiers in gas masks doing army training. World War Two had just broken out only three weeks earlier when this picture was taken. Picture taken 27th September 1939

Two ladies (un named) working in a Fighter Aircraft Factory in The Midlands. Here they are rivetting on the framework of a Spitfire. Picture taken 4th April 1941

Army training. Soldiers training with a machine gun. Location unknown. But picture taken in The United Kingdom. Picture taken circa 1st June 1941

Munition working ladies in their factory. They are enjoying their moment together for the photograph, and have a great role together, helping the war effort.. Picture taken 17th August 1942

24 year old Joy fletcher and 19 year old Brenda Cawdell at work in the foundry. The white hot liquid metal can be seen on the moulds that they are clamping down

War munition workers. Male and female. Picture taken 31st October 1941

Miss Edith Care of Evesham. Once a waitress, but now working for the ATS (The Auxiliary Territorial Service ) at the Western Command Ordinance Factory. Picture taken 5th November 1942

2 soldiers in their quarters below their look out post. Picture undated. Mirrorpix will suggest 1st January 1942

Home Guard Bren gunner. (Picture) A Bren Gunner lowering himself through trap-door. 21st February 1944

The astounding picture produced by the flash of a 3 inch anti aircraft gun, and pictured during a night exercise by a Territorial Traing Camp, who are getting ready to repulse any invading aircraft

Two members of the Young Soldiers unit in the British Army train on the range finder of a 2 inch mortar. Picture taken 5th July 1942

A new Ack- Ack weapon has just been released from the secret list. A rocket shell is fired from a projector and these projectors wherever possible will be manned by the Home Guard

Sir John Anderson, the Lord Privy Seal, visits Cardiff, Wales, to see the citys Air Raid Precautions (ARP). He is pictured with the chief constable of Cardiff inspecting an emergency ambulance

Balloon Barrage work in the midlands of England. (actual town not known) December 1939. A barrage balloon is a large unmanned tethered kite balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft

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