No service records for Home Guard members are known to exist although the Army Medal Office has brief records of those who were eligible for the Defence Medal. Please contact the following addressing for more information:
Officer in Charge
The Army Medal Office
Building 250
RAF Innsworth
Innsworth
Gloucester
Gloucestershire GL3 1EZ.
Officers are listed in the Home Guard List. There is no comparable listing for other ranks.
An excellent source for working out the different units of the Home Guard is:
Stand down: orders of battle for the units of the Home Guard of the United Kingdom, November 1944 / compiled from official documents by L.B. Whittaker. - Newport, Gwent: Ray Westlake Military Books, 1990. - 153p.: facsims.; 26cm. ISBN 1-871167-14-0
Many units produced histories that will detail their activities and may mention members. Please click here to check what publications are held by the Imperial War Museum's Department of Printed Books.
You may also find information held in local archives, libraries or regimental museums.