Key Information
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Date(s)
- 1940 Sep 21 - 1942 Aug 17 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Press cuttings and other publications on the Home Guard and the defence of Britain including article in unknown paper on Lt Col Thornton Hy Bisgood, commander of Middlesex Home Guards who was rebuked by Anthony Eden, 21 Sep 1940, with anonymous letter in response to the article, 12 Oct 1940; 'Stone V tank', Daily Mirror , 2 Nov 1940; 'HG under the knife', Daily Mirror , 8 Nov 1940; 'Doctors for Home Guard', Daily Mirror , 25 Jan 1941; 'Home Guard arms from America', Star , 31 Jul [1941]; Army Bureau of Current Affairs final report, Apr 1942; article on Albert 'Yank' Levy, 'How to be a guerrilla', Life , 17 Aug 1942; 'The Home Guard are our masters of camouflage', Picture Post , 9 Jan 1943; article by Tom Wintringham, 'We invented modern war', Daily Mirror and Ministry of Information publication, 'If the Invader comes'. 1 file