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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
Home Guard post at Admiralty Arch in central London, 21 June 1940
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
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
A member of a Montgomeryshire Home Guard unit in 1941
Recruitment poster for the Ashtead Home Guard
Recruitment poster for the Ashtead Home Guard
Dad's Army
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Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and originally broadcast on BBC1 from 31 Jul
Home Guard (United Kingdom)
…transported back to the British coast during World War II, and featured the Home Guard. The Home Guard was immortalised in the British television comedy Dad's Army, which followed the formation and running of a platoon in the fictional south coast town of Walmington-on-Sea, and is widely regarded as having kept…
Series title card
Series title card
The characters of Dad's Army (left to right): Private Pike (Ian Lavender) ARP Warden Hodges (Bill Pertwee) Private Frazer (John Laurie) Private Godfre
The characters of Dad's Army (left to right): Private Pike (Ian Lavender) ARP Warden Hodges (Bill Pertwee) Private Frazer (John Laurie) Private Godfrey (Arnold Ridley) Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) Private Walker (James Beck) Lance Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn) Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier)
Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011
Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011
Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey (2014)
Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey (2014)