Picture No | 11111856 |
Date | 1940 |
Description | 'Charlwood's Oldest Parashot' |
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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.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 10 July 1940 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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