Ww2 British Home Guard Uniform

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Ww2 british home guard uniform. You will have to buy your own unit. Map pocket is lined with cotton drill. Get the complete ww2 home guard uniform aka dad s army reproduction gear here. They have two regular pockets on each hip a bellows pocket on the front of the leg one inside the right leg seam to hold the dagger and 3 for bandages.

The war office eventually provided a modest supply of rifles for the home guard along with denim uniforms. British army world war two ww2 wwii uniform parachutist para commando trousers. We sell home guard uniforms ammunition pouches haversacks webbing and badges. Home shop re enactment british ww2 insignia home guard.

Price is us 110 uk pounds 58 euro 92 in any size delivered anywhere in the world. After operation dynamo the evacuation at dunkirk of british french and belgium soldiers much of their equipment was lost including rifles so the army had to be rearmed at the same time a civilian based army was to be raised and armed this was called the l d v local defence volunteers later to become the home guard. See more ideas about wwii home guard british army. 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.

While i was growing up in the 1940s i must have seen quite a number of men from the home guard i didn t realise it at the time though because to a small child they just looked like regular soldiers. A uniform set as would have been worn by a platoon member of the british home guard once they had been issued the battle dress early on demin uniforms were issued when out in the field or on patrol we have assembled this uniform package from our range of reenactment clothing and equipment which will portray the look of young private of the home guard. May 13 2020 explore michaelmaranda s board wwii british army home guard reenactment on pinterest.