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  • INVASION DEFENCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM INVASION DEFENCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    Members of the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) stand guard at a concrete road barricade at Findon, Sussex, 26 June 1940.

  • THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945 THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    The Home Guard: Men of the 5th Battalion (Doncaster) Home Guard rounding up an 'enemy' parachutist during training for assisting the Army in the event of an invasion.

  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: THE HOME FRONT THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: THE HOME FRONT

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    Two members of the Home Guard with a Vickers machine gun on a village green in Surrey. Originally known as the Local Defence Volunteers, the force was set up in 1940 as a precaution against enemy parachute landings behind the lines in the event of an...

  • L.D.V. Look-out Post, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1940 L.D.V. Look-out Post, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1940

    (art) Made by: Trivick, Henry Houghton 1940

    image: a small wooden shed dug into an earthen bank surrounded by sandbags, which serves as a Land Defence Volunteers post. In the foreground is what appears to be a dummy machine gun mounted on a wooden post. There is a wood in the background.