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

  • CEMA Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, 1941 CEMA Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, 1941

    (art) Made by: Rowntree, Kenneth 1941

    image: The interior of a large room, filled with people seated around tables. In the foreground there is a table stacked with plates, behind which stands a woman wearing an apron.

  • Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

    (posters) Made by: Brookshaw, Drake (artist)

    whole: the image is positioned in the lower three-quarters. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the upper third, in dark blue. The text is separate and placed in the top edge left, in orange, and in the lower fifth, in black and in blue....

  • Even a Mite is a Great Help in War Savings Even a Mite is a Great Help in War Savings

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the upper two-thirds. The title is separate and positioned in the lower third, in light blue cursive script, in white and in orange. The text is separate and placed in the lower right, in orange. The title and text are set...

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