The Home Guard Protecting the Thames
Two members of the Home Guard chat to Colonel Burnell on a pleasure boat, now converted into a Thames patrol boat. Note that the men are wearing LDV armbands. The Local Defence Volunteers were officially renamed the Home Guard on 22 July 1940
Picture No
11111881
Media ID
46644343
Size
4192px x 3636px
(2.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 31 July 1940
Date
1940
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