WW2 - Home Guard Goings On
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Home Guard Goings On, written by Basil Boothroyd. The image portrays an older gentleman wielding a gun, he serves the Local Defence Volunteers, an organisation founded in 1940, when the secretary of state for war, Anthony Eden, made a broadcast calling for men aged between 17 and 65 to enrol
Picture No
13925730
Media ID
45171512
Size
2976px x 4304px
(3.8MB)
Credit
© CLM Archive Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Illustration from Home Guard Goings On,' by Maurice McLoughlin
Date
1941
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