Charlwood's Oldest Parashot
Seventy-eight-year-old John Chandler on the lookout for German paratroopers in Charlwood, Surrey. He was a member of the Local Defence Volunteers (later renamed the Home Guard'), despite the upper age limit officially being sixty-five. The L.D.V. was established in 1940 to prepare British citizens for a possible German invasion
Picture No
11111856
Media ID
46690435
Size
4034px x 4766px
(3.3MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 10 July 1940
Date
1940
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