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The Cambridgeshire Home Guard pictured during the Second World War, 1941

Members of an American Eagle Squadron at an overseas Club Place challenge during the Second World War. The Eagle Squadrons were three fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF)

The Littlestone Atlantic 21 class lifeboat, The Lady Dart and Long Life II seen here launching. This lifeboat was provided by New Romney and Littlestone Ladies Dart League and Allied Breweries

The rifle range of a company of Home Guard on parade in Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. 29th June 1942

The 10th Torbay Devonshire Home Guard during the Second World War. August 1941

Picture shows The Reading Home Guard, Berkshire, England, during world War Two. The Home Guard was a volunteer unit made up of people too old or too young to be sent to battle

Jim Titford, John Berkely and Roger Smith of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society, move a wing, damaged beyond repair, from a De Havilland Rapide

Jim Titford and Gordon Riley of the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society unload the rear fuselage section of a Miles Messenger aircraft with the help of Jacqueline Riley and Roger Smith (behind)

An Old Fairey Gannet aircraft landed at the Midland Air Museum in Coventry, care of a 15 ton crane. The plane came from the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton

West Middlesbrough Scouts at work doing up the old Marchesi Charity Centre on Middlesbroughs Tollesby Road in time for its September opening as a community centre

Scouts and Cubs from the 40th Middlesbrough Marton Troop are tackling the half mile area of littered woodland in Cypruss Road, Marton, during their Easter holidays

James Hirst, 84, retires after over 70 years as the chorister at Kirkheaton Parish Church, Friday 8th February 1985. Mr Hirst joined the choir aged 6

The Mayor flanked by Pc Colin Horne (left) and Pc Simon Cross dish out some Christmas cheer at the Salvation Army lunch, Cambridge Citadel, Tenison Road, Cambridge, Christmas Day 25th December 1975

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

The latest recruits carry a poster in a march of the 77th Lancashire (Bootle, Liverpool) Home Guard. 11th August 1941

Mr W G Marks, manager of the Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport Depot inspecting a parade company of the departments Home Guard prior to a church parade commencing at Dingle, Liverpool

Home Guard inspecting a pass at a Wallasey anti aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the second World War. 2nd July 1943

Home Guard enjoying a meal at a Wallasey anti aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the second World War. 2nd July 1943

C Company of the 5th Battalion Liverpool Home Guard are the proud possessors of the first Home Guard Pipe band in England. Pipe Major Macleod is seen here leading the company. 26th January 1941

Home Guard manning an anti aircraft gun at a Wallasey Ant-Aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the Second World War. 2nd July 1943

Home Guard outside Buckingham Palace watching the Changing of the Guard ceremony taking place. 14th May 1943

Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C. S. M. W. L. Malcolm and C. S
Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C.S.M. W.L. Malcolm and C.S.M. R. Wallace, both of the Ulster Home Guard. 3rd December 1944

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

Members of the Home Guard on parade Kidmore End near Reading, Berkshire on Sunday 18th May 1941

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

March past of the Cardiff sector of the Home Guard at their final parade in Cardiff. The salute was taken by Lieutenant General D. G. Watson G.O.C. in Chief, Western Command. Circa 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 group of recruits for the Reading Home Guard Ant-Aircraft Battery pictured on parade observed by NCOs and Officers during the Second World War. 1st June 1942

A YMCA mobile canteen in operation in a poor area of Swansea, South Wales during the Second World War. The canteens were used to provide food and drink to those made homeless

The YMCA have a number of travelling tea cars with the british Expeditionary Force serving in France. They provide tea and light refreshment for the troops

A YMCA mobile canteen in operation in Cardiff City centre during the Second World War. The canteens were used to provide food and drink to those made homeless

Gas masks are distributed and fitted at the Broad Street offices of Birminghams A. R
Gas masks are distributed and fitted at the Broad Street offices of Birminghams A.R.P. service. As demand for gas mask rise as tension between Germany and Poland rises 28th August 1939

Gas masks are distributed from the Broad Street offices of Birminghams A. R. P
Gas masks are distributed from the Broad Street offices of Birminghams A.R.P. service. As demand for gas mask rise as tension between Germany and Poland rises 28th August 1939

Voluntary workers seen here assembling gas mask boxes at the Broad Street offices of Birminghams A.R.P. service. As demand for gas mask rise as tension between Germany

Russian volunteers enlisting for The Volunteer Force. This picture taken when Russia had joined the Allies in fighting Germany

Glyn Jones of the Newport Home Guard during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth and Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, inspecting the 2nd Glamorgan (Pontypridd and District) Battalion of the Home Guards at Pontypridd

Winners of the Battalion Commanders Shooting Cup, presented by Lieutenant Col. Percy Thomas OBE toNumbe 2 (guest Keen Baldwins) Company, 22nd Glamorgan (Cardiff) Battalion Home Guard

The staff of a Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF) Barrage Balloon depot at Caerau, Ely, Cardiff during the Second World War. Circa 1941

A veteran from the previous war gives instructions on how to use a Tommy gun at a Home Guard camp near Cardiff. September 1941

Members of the Home Guard of the Pulsometer Engineering Works in Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. 12th December 1941

A group of officers at a Home Guard weekend camp in Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. 15th June 1942

Members of a company of the Reading Home Guard during the Second World War. 12th February 1942

Members of the Home Guard practice with Sten Guns during training exercises in Reading, Berkshire in the Second World War. 26th June 1942

Members of a Home Guard Anti-Aircraft battery in Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. 6th July 1942

Home Guards, well entrenched, with a bombing post in the background, guarding a road in the English countryside during the Second World War. August 1940

New Surrey training camp for part time fire fighters. New Parliamentary Secretary of Food talks to Fire Force cooks before taking up his new job

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