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To disperse British regular forces around the country to provide rapid response cover for potential drop areas would severely deplete the main Home Defence order of battle, but that role appeared tailor-made for local Home Guard units and so throughout 1940 and 1941, defence against paratroops dominated much Home Guard thinking and training.
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Service history; In service: 1940-1942: Production history; Manufacturer: ... The vehicle was used by regular British Army units in 1940 and British Home Guard units ...
Croatian Home Guard, several historic military formations during 19th and 20th century; Czechoslovak Home Guard (1918–1919) Home Guard (Austria) (Heimwehr) (1920–1938) paramilitary unit of Fatherland Front Party; Home Guard (New Zealand) (1940–1943) Home Guard (United Kingdom) (1940–1944) Home Service Force, British force for the 1980s-90s.
1939 Home Defence poster. During British re-armament in the mid-1930s, the Royal Defence Corps was disbanded and replaced by the National Defence Companies, a part-time force which was part of the Territorial Army (TA) and open to ex-servicemen between the ages of 45 and 60 years. [4]
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. In modern times, the Auxiliary Units have sometimes misleadingly been referred to as the "British Resistance Organisation". [5]
Home Guard soldiers training with a Bombard on a fixed concrete mounting (May 1943) An abandoned Bombard emplacement, Brompton, Kent (2007) The first Bombards appeared in late 1941, [19] and were issued to both regular and Home Guard units; [20] in Southern Command, no more were issued after July 1942. By that time, approximately 22,000 ...
The Projector, 2.5 inch—more commonly known as the Northover Projector—was an ad hoc anti-tank weapon used by the British Army and Home Guard during the Second World War. With a German invasion of Great Britain seeming likely after the defeat in the Battle of France , most available weaponry was diverted to the regular British Army, leaving ...