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STAFFS HOME GUARD WEBSITE - GENERAL INFORMATION

HOME GUARD DESPATCH RIDERS
IMAGES FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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Original images of Home Guard Despatch Riders in a unit in the North of England are shown on this page. They are part of a private collection and show members of the DR unit of the Signals Platoon, H.Q. Coy., 6th Northumberland (Blyth) Battalion, Home Guard, at a training camp. The latter was near to Rothbury and most of the training itself took place on the Craigside Estate.

 


THE MEN AND THEIR MACHINES

 


SOME OF THE D.R. UNIT MEMBERS

     

   
(The corporal shown above in S.D. cap is Cpl. James Burn)

...AND THEIR SUPPORTERS
(on "Skelly's Field")

 

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Grateful acnowledgement is made to PT of Northumberland for making these inages available to staffshomeguard and generously permitting their publication within this website.
                                                                                                                                                       Images: © PT 2009

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