Scallywag bunker
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Scallywag bunkers or Auxiliary Unit Operational Base/OB were underground bunkers used by GHQ Auxiliary Units of the British Resistance against Axis invasion of the United Kingdom.
Reconstruction of a Scallywag bunker at Parham Airfield Museum, Suffolk
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
A member of a Montgomeryshire Home Guard unit in 1941
Recruitment poster for the Ashtead Home Guard
Lieutenant Percy Reginald Tucker Bermuda Home Guard (with the cap badge of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps)