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• Vaux, Peter Alfred Lincoln (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 2000-12-12

  British officer served with 4th Royal Tank Regt in GB and North Africa, 1940-1941; served as staff officer with Headquarters, 7th Armoured Division, 10/1941-9/1942, with Headquarters, 13th Corps in North Africa, 9/1942-12/1942; served as staff officer...

• Grenade Fragmentation Improvised

  (weapons and ammunition)

  grenade Improvised use of glass jar

• Projectile 29mm Spigot Blacker Drill

  (weapons and ammunition)

  bomb Sand filled drill round for Blacker Bombard 29mm Spigot Mortar

• Home made molotov cocktail grenade

  (weapons and ammunition)

  Typical home-made molotove cocktail type of incendiary grenade, based on a glass bottle, filled with a flammable liquid, to which are attached several matches to act as the flame source, when the bottle is broken.

• Wilkinson, Peter Allix (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1993

  British officer with 2nd Bn Royal Fusiliers in GB, 1935-1938; intelligence duties with War Office and Secret Intelligence Service in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939; officer served with Military Intelligence Research in Poland and Romania, 1939; officer served...

• Grasmere Home Guard

  (art) Made by: Spencer, Gilbert (RA) 1943

  image: In the foreground the Home Guard are issued with equipment and rifles. Behind them is a landscape of trees and a lake.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Admiral Sir Chas Kennedy-Purvis the Deputy First Sea Lord, accompanied by Major Lord Bruntisfield, MC (Parliamentary Secretary) inspecting the Admiralty Company of Home Guards at Horse Guards Parade, London. At the rear is Paymaster Captain Maurice Jones...

• The Home Guard in a Tank Landing Craft Exercise, Oban

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: a view of the backs of two British officers standing at the bridge of a landing craft with the coastline visible ahead. A large number of Home Guards are sitting or standing on the deck below.

• THE HOME GUARD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-1945

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

  The Home Guard: Seated at the dining table with his wife, a Sergeant of the Dorking Home Guard in Surrey, England gives his Tommy gun a final polish before leaving home to go on parade.

• THE HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Civilian Home Guard trainees learn to handle guns by drilling with broomsticks.