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• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of home guards are seen rushing down a country lane and turning to the right through a gate next to a house. There is one soldier lagging behind further down the lane.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: The Commandant Lets Off One Of His Crackers

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: In the foreground we see the side of a shed and four uniformed men hiding behind it. To the left of this is an open area in the centre of which is a smoking cracker on the floor. Men run away from it in all directions.

• Snap into it - Men 18-19 1/2 - Home Defence

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a blue background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in red cursive script. The subtitle is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in white, set against a green...

• 'Let 'em All Come' - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1939

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1940

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• 'Stand To' Before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: British infantrymen stand-to in a duckboarded trench. They lean against the parapet looking over the breastworks into No Man's Land, with their rifles beside them. There are two large puffs of smoke from artillery fire hanging in the dawn sky to...

• Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

  image: a squared up study of five British infantrymen at 'Stand To' in a front line trench at dawn. Four of the men stand on the firestep, carefully looking over the parapet towards No Man's Land. One of the men, in the centre, stands lower down in a...

• Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at night

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: a group of gunners of the Royal Field Artillery hurriedly emerging from a dugout, still dressing as they run towards a battery firing into the distance. A Sergeant stands to the left of the composition, holding a torch in his hand shining down at...