Home Guard Ww2 Service Records

Home guard battalions were formed on an area basis normally covering towns or districts.

Home guard ww2 service records. Home guard personnel records and enrolment forms 1940 1945 contact the ministry of defence for home guard personnel records and enrolment forms service histories. For a comprehensive overview see. The home guard was responsible for guarding coastal areas and factories from attack. The home guard was operational from 1940 to 1944 and was set up by the british army during the second world war.

There is a nonrefundable charge of 30 to request a home guard service file. The records have been described at the level of each individual. Selected finding aids related to nara s world war ii holdings african americans records of military agencies relating to african americans from the post world war i period to the korean war reference information paper casualty lists and missing missing air crew reports macrs world war ii honor list of dead and missing army and army air. The records personal information and other service information such as length of service in the home guard and discharge details for each individual.

Of those nearly 7000 died on active army service and a total of over 11 000 in all services. The home guard in new zealand was an important force until the threat from japan eased in late 1943. These records are the service records of individuals serving in the home guard in the second world war. It was disbanded in december 1944.

Information may contain personal details on enlistment but no details of the person s duties. The home guard initially local defence volunteers or ldv was an armed citizen militia supporting the british army during the second world war operational from 1940 to 1944 the home guard had 1 5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service such as those who were too young or too old to join the regular armed services regular military service was restricted to those. The local defence volunteer force was established in 1940 becoming known later in the year as the home guard. Nearly 16 000 were wounded as well.

These records may be supplied to next of kin and other members of the public after the home guard member s death. Details can be found on gov uk. There were over 1200 separate home guard. Forces war records is the only site to hold these records in digitised transcribed format making the entire list of officers of the home guard easy to search.

Information contained in home guard records is typically limited. The records are the form of enrolment army form w3066 and contain personal information and other service information such as length of service in the home guard and discharge details for each individual. Updated part 1 of the home guard service forms in line with the new gdpr guidance that comes into force on 25 may 2018. A total of about 105 000 men and women from new zealand served overseas during the second world war.