Item WINTRINGHAM 2/7 - Booklets and texts of lectures, [1931-1941], used for Home Guard training, on topics including street fighting, firearms, explosives and tank ambush

Lectures and booklets for the Home Guard including diagram of how to make an improvised crossbow; diagram of the path of a bomb; some suggestions as to the practise of street fighting, 5 Dec 1939; series of lectures using excerpts from The German Army: a general outline of its present organisation, tactics and training , by Anton Von Bechtolsheim, delivered in the field artillery school, Oklahoma, 1931-1932; booklet, 'The Home Guard can fight: a summary of lectures given at Osterley Park Training School', HMSO, 1941; booklet, 'Tank hunting and destruction', the War Office, 29 Aug 1940; booklet, 'Operations, part one - general principles, fighting troops and their characteristics', the War Office, Sep 1939 and booklet, 'Extracts from army training memorandum no 40' issued for the Home Guard, the War Office, 25 Aug 1941; précis of three lectures: 'German Offensive tactics', 'Modern defensive tactics' and 'Street fighting'; draft paper outlining the home defence course at Osterley and lectures on 'introduction to war', smoke mortar, messages and reporting, firearms, guerrilla warfare, grenades and explosives, camouflage, street fighting, aeroplanes, and anti-tank ambush.