Cases occurred once or twice where Local Defence Volunteers hada rough time owing to their! being "mistaken for parachutists. The mistake was then "pardonable, because in the beginning some of use did look very like rateatcherst That is all changed. The Home Guard has had the honour of inspection by His Majesty important and effective part of the huge army which is protecting the British islands, It has come. into action and shot down enemy aero-Blanes. One Military "Medal has} Slready been awarded to 9 Home Guard for gallantry in action, In the early days service "rifles were not plentiful. My section was lucky but some units carried miscellaneous "collections of sporting Titles. Now the Home Guard is being armed with sub-machine guns and its striking power has, Rreatly enhanced.
officers and mon, so largely drawn from the ranks of veteran soldiers, link up this present fight for freedom with the historic past, They themselves are the comrades of those who lie in Flanders where. the "German menace was met and overcome in 1914-18. They are also the descendants of the men who saved Europe at Waterloo, and to further' back still, of the men Who in the days of another Queen Elizabeth, held the English shores while Howard of Effingham. and Froneis Drake by the help of God! put to Might the Spanish Armada on the high seas,
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