Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Priority in mid-1940 was given to Home Guard units on the South Coast and Home Counties and those defending key air industry suppliers from air and paratroop attack, and had an invasion happened in September or October, those Home Guard units would have largely been well equipped and armed for a static defence role, the key remaining lack being ...
Home Guard improvised weapons. By July 1940 the situation had improved radically as all volunteers received uniforms and a modicum of training. 500,000 modern M1917 Enfield Rifles, 25,000 M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition were bought from the reserve stock of the U.S. armed forces, and rushed by special trains ...
Urged on by the War Office, Prime Minister Winston Churchill initiated the Auxiliary Units [6] in the early summer of 1940. This was to counter the civilian Home Defence Scheme already established by SIS (MI6), but outside War Office control. The Auxiliary Units answered to GHQ Home Forces but were legally an integral part of the Home Guard.
14 May – Recruitment begins for a home defence force – the Local Defence Volunteers, renamed as the Home Guard from 23 July. [2] 16 May – Large-scale alien internment begins. 22 May – Parliament passes the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1940, giving the government full control over all persons and property. 23 May
Artists Roland Penrose (author of the Home Guard Manual of Camouflage), [103] Stanley William Hayter, Julian Trevelyan and many others were employed to conceal defences. [104] In built-up areas, pillboxes were disguised to look like a part of an adjacent building, carefully matched and provided with a roof to look as if they had always been there.
14 May 1940 In a BBC radio broadcast Anthony Eden calls for the creation of the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) militia – renamed on 23 July the Home Guard. 22 May 1940 The Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1940 is passed, granting the government even more authority to control persons and property for the duration of the war. [10] 10 June 1940
Troopers in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment assembled in the Parade Square at Hyde Park Barracks to take part in an annual event to find the best turned out soldier and horse.
Bisons were produced in Britain during the invasion crisis of 1940-1941. Based on a number of different lorry chassis, it featured a fighting compartment protected by a layer of concrete. Bisons were used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to protect aerodromes and by the Home Guard. [1] They acquired the generic name "Bison" from their main ...