Britain’s Home Guard (‘Dad’s Army’) is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London on the 3rd December 1944.
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Was your relative serving in the Top Secret ‘Home Guard Auxiliary Units’ in the Second World War?
These records are of individuals who served in the top secret Home Guard Auxiliary Units in the Second World War. In reality, the Home Guard was used as a cover story for the formation of these secret units, often called ‘Churchill’s secret weapon’. These
Secret Army: The Auxiliary Units, Britain’s final line of WW2 defence in case of invasion
Unlike most of Europe, Britain had time to make a contingency plan in case of a German invasion. If Operation Sealion had come off in September 1940, the government had a secret force ready to kick off the resistance straight away… but how effective cou