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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: 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.

• A Day with the Home Guard : Home Guards advancing under a bridge on the river Front

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

  image: A group of home guards sneaking around a corner at the bottom of a flight of steps, holding their rifles with caution. Their leader is kneeling, holding a smoking canister in the air.

• A Day with the Home Guard : a landing party

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

  image: Uniformed men are seen jumping from a boat and climbing up a harbour wall. In the background some civilians lean over the top of the wall to watch.

• The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet'

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

  image: A group of elderly home guards stand outside a pub watching a blonde girl weraing a black suit walk by.

• West Country Manoeuvres: We Are Held Up by Ferocious Home Guards

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

  image: A group of soldiers in a country lane at night, a full moon in the sky. The soldiers are being held at gunpoint by a contingent of the Home Guard, one of whom is searching a large soldier standing to the right of the composition with his trousers...

• An Evening Parade of the L.D.V. (Local Defence Volunteers) in their Early Days

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

  image: A group of men lined-up on parade on a village street, watched by some women and children. Across the street, a man looks on, standing astride a bicycle.

• Home Guards at the 'Local'

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

  image: The interior of a public house with Home Guard personnel standing at the bar along with other customers.

• A Day with the Home Guard: the battle rages for the Bank of England

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

  image: seen from the junction of Cornhill and Lothbury Street, a close engagement is in progress, with smoke in the background. Amid fierce action, confused civilians are still emerging from the Tube. To the right another remonstrates with a soldier who...

• The Siren : The Home Guard at the power station

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: smoke is pouring from the power station chimneys, illuminated in the night sky by searchlights. On the ground below, in the shadow of the power station building, the Home Guards are emerging from a hut. In the foreground one guard, dressed in an...