Home Guard general thread (Badges, Uniforms, Weapons & Photographs)

"E" Railway Company, 2nd Cumberland Bn, Home Guard

 

2nd Cumberland (Carlisle City) Battalion, Home Guard

 

No. 2 Platoon A Company, 17th Bn Cheshire Regiment, Home Guard

 

No. 29 Platoon "F" Company, 11thSuffolk Battalion, Home Guard,

 

7th Bn East Kent Home Guard Lyminge

 

"A" Troop L.A.A. 28th Battalion, 1st Southern Railway Home Guard

Kentish Express 10th November 1944

 

Ernest William Tong Home Guard, The Palace Of Westminster

 

Sunderland Home Guard (Durham) Whitburn Ranges 1941


Sunderland Home Guard (Durham) Exercise South Durham Street ,East End,Sunderland


Sunderland Home Guard (Durham) Parade and Inspection 1941




Kyle

 

Home Guard Cavalry Unit
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A mounted cavalry unit of Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) from the Home Guard, a militia supporting the British Army, take part in a training exercise in a field in England during World War II on 13th August 1942. (Photo by James Jarche/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

 

Rocket Ack Ack Battery - Royal Artillery - Hamstead Heath 1942-1944 - My Dad ( Henry Gunning) end of 3rd row on the right, age 16/17. Joined the Royal Artillery May 1944 just before his 18th birthday.

 

What does "MX101" mean?

 

MX is Middlesex.
Have a look here.
Structure of the Home Guard

https://www.home-guard.org.uk/hg/cty-middlesex.html

 

Thanks.
It's (slightly) funny but the WO/Gordon Highlanders seem to have no records of my late father in Ww1 or WW2. BUT here he is with the 2 most Senior Generals in Anti-Aircaft Commsnd!! And I his 1st hand descriptions of 21/3/18 (I think the second bloodiest day of Ww1) as well as (about) 7 days hand to hand with bayonets at the Marne.

 

The MX nos. on that website only seem to go up to MX33!! Tho' the photo' clealrly shows MX101!!!!

 

Well the caption to the photo does say
101st Rocket Troops Middlesex Home Guard

 

But the actual caption on the IWM photo does not have this information about "101st...." this appears to have been added later!
I now see that the "101st Rocket Anti-Aircraft Battery" is suggested by Denham History to be to be somehow associated with Buckinhamshire Home Guard.

 

4th (Guildford) Battalion Surrey Home Guard Officers

Surrey Advertiser 2nd December 1944

 

Thanks for sharing the wonderful items in your collection. My Dad was in the Home Guard and I have a group photograph in which he features. I think he was in the 13th Battalion in Kent, as he lived in the Rochester area.

 

Baldock, Hertfordshire - Captain Cuthbert's Home Guard Platoon:


Two other local veteran volunteers: