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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.

  • 'Let Us Go Forward Together' 'Let Us Go Forward Together'

    (posters) Made by: Keely, Pat (artist) 1943

    whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, with two smaller images located in the lower quarter. The title is partially integrated and placed in the lower quarter, in black. The text is separate and placed along the bottom edge, in brown...

  • Building Planes Building Planes

    (art) Made by: Armstrong, John 1940

    image: A view across a factory floor showing men working on the sub-structure of two aircraft. In the background, other figures working at lathes and machinery are spotlighted on the upper and lower floors of the factory.

  • The City : A fallen lift shaft The City : A fallen lift shaft

    (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1941

    image: bomb damaged buildings and twisted girders set against smoke and an evening sky.

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