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- You should have said friend, Fred
- Officer: ‘Target – Left… Rapid… Fire!’, Ancient: ‘An ow’s George?’
- I wish I wasn’t Home-Guarding tonight
- Darling, what have you done with my battledress?
- ‘Can’t you stand up?’, ‘No! N’more could you, if you’d been shoeing ‘orses since you was fourteen’
- All Tanks To Practise At Home What They Learn On The Parade Ground
- It Is Urged On All Ranks To Make The Fullest Use of Local Conditions When Adopting Protective Covering
- ‘I clocks in at the gasworks at five’, Home Guard Duties Are Not to Interfere With Civilian Employment
- The Bore: ‘In ’15’
- Dawn Patrol – The Converted Poacher
- She: ‘It’s orders – Fred got to challenge everyone!’
- ‘Down another foot, Walter’, Trench Digging in the Lake District
- Officer, reading description of escaped prisoner to patrol: ‘Height 7ft 6″, broad shoulders, probably armed, known to be fierce, and will resist arrest’.
- And then we have our LDV.. longing to come to grips with the enemy