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Collections / Home Guard Watercolours
  • 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
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