Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War.
General Sir Edmund Ironside in c. 1939
The Battle of Vimy Ridge, at which Ironside commanded 4th Canadian Division, during the First World War
Ironside presenting medals to British troops in Arkhangelsk, 1919.
Ironside in Iran in 1920
Home Guard (United Kingdom)
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The Home Guard was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the 'Home Forces' of the British Army during the Second World War. Operational from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard comprised more than 1.5 m
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
…force which amounted – on paper – to fifteen Territorial Infantry divisions, a single armoured division, fifty-seven home-defence battalions, and the Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard). However, all of these were deficient in training and organisation, as the operational units had already been sent to France…
Home Guard post at Admiralty Arch in central London, 21 June 1940
Lt Gen Lashmer Whistler (General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Command) with local Home Guard commanders at Oswestry, 1954
A member of a Montgomeryshire Home Guard unit in 1941
Recruitment poster for the Ashtead Home Guard