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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.
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]
These include the Armoury Guard, the British Museum Guard, the Kensington Palace Guard, the King's Guard, the Magazine Guard, the Military Asylum Guard, the Savoy Prison Guard, the Tylt Guards, and the York Hospital Guard. In addition, the Household Division also provided night guards for the Bank of England, Covent Garden Opera House, and ...
The Home Service Force (HSF [1]) was a Home Guard type force established in the United Kingdom in 1982. Each HSF unit was placed with either a Regular Army or Territorial Army regiment or battalion for administrative purposes and given that formation's title, cap badge and recruited from volunteers aged 18–60 with previous British forces (TA or regular) experience.
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]
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.
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They were always intended to fight in Home Guard uniform and from 1942 the men were badged to Home Guard battalions 201 (Scotland), 202 (northern England), or 203 (southern England). [ citation needed ]