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• THE HOME GUARD IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Men of the Cheshire Home Guard manning a 6 pdr naval gun mounted on a field gun chassis at Hoylake on the Wirral, consult a map at Battery HQ, 1 June 1943.

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: Home Guards replaced regular gunners at Anti Aircraft batteries. Photograph shows Home Guard manning a Zeda projector at Bootle, Liverpool.

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: A Home Guard mounted patrol parading for inspection at Cowbridge near Cardiff. Their task was to patrol the hills and valleys of the Welsh countryside.

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: A medical exercise held in North Wales used a company of Home Guards to act as stretcher bearers, lowering the wounded down a cliff face and, with the aid of improvised rafts, bringing them across a river. Photograph shows the latter...

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: A break from instructions for men on a Home Guard Junior leaders course at Number 3 GHQ Home Guard School, Onibury near Craven Arms, Shropshire, sees soldiers dressed in German uniform - in order to represent German prisoners - taking a...

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: A Home Guard quarry platoon in action at Whitehaven in Cumberland. Photograph shows the platoon's toggle team positioned at the top of a quarry-face in order to pull up the rest of the men as a way of consolidating their position during...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

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

  An infantry section marching along the pavement of a South Wales town, during an exercise involving Home Guard and regular forces, 20 October 1941.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-1945

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

  Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, talking to Czech officers during a visit to Czech troops near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  West Indian troops in Britain: Many West Indian troops served as skilled tradesmen with the Royal Engineers, building bridges and pontoons in Western Command. Photograph shows: Sapper Williams, an MT driver, from Kingston, Jamaica, serving with the Royal...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

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

  Royal Engineers marching through Preston, 19 June 1942.