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Description: | A crowd of civilians gather around the L.T. Home Guard display at the London War Weapons Week held at Parsons Green Works.
All men between the ages of 17 and 65 were eligible to join the Home Guard, but many were veterans of other wars. The younger men of military age were in the Home Guard rather than the regular army because they worked in reserved occupations.
From 1941, the Home Guard was transformed from a civilian group without uniform and with few weapons into a proper military force. Members also joined voluntary bomb disposal units to deal with unexploded bombs. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport London at War | Temporal: | 23 May 1941 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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