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Most recent update: 12th March 2012

A wide range of material was published between 1940 and 1944 in order to instruct, train and generally guide Home Guards as they attempted to master new techniques and equipment and achieve an ever increasing level of professionalism. Some of these publications are shown below; they are from a large private collection whose owner has generously permitted them to be shared with visitors to this website.

Those documents which are currently available are listed immediately below, in the form of a link to the appropriate separate page via title; they will consist either of the complete manual or, more usually, of the front cover and the contents list to indicate what the complete document contains. (The majority of the entire collection of manuals is shown in the summary image further down the page).

Another section of this website is devoted to other types of paperwork with which Home Guard units had to deal constantly, the more routine paperwork necessary - or deemed necessary by higher authority - for the management of the force and the general guidance and encouragement of its members: see:  PAPERWORK, RED TAPE AND BUMF.

ALL TEXT COVER/ CONTENTS MANUAL TITLE   Bombards Bombs & Grenades - No. 3 School, Onibury   Home Guard Squad Commander's Hand Book, 1943 - North Midland District   Road Blocks and Check Points   Small Arms Instruction - for Police & Home Guard (Askew)   Manual of Grenades and New Grenade Chart (Cowan - Bernards)   First Aid for the Fighting Man (Keogh - Sifton Praed)   Tommy Gun, Rifle and Bayonet (Nicholson, Watson)   Browning Automatic Rifle (Gale & Polden)   Bren Light Machine Gun (Gale & Polden)   Squad Battle Drill 1942 - North Midland District   Enfield (1914) Rifle - the P14 (Gale & Polden)   Training Chart - Bayonet Fighting   Training Chart - Light Auto. Machine Guns for A-A   Training Chart - Drill   Training Chart - Field Sketching   Training Chart - How the Rangefinder Works   Training Chart - Theory of Small Arms Fire   Training Chart - Tank Fighting   Training Chart - Street Fighting   Training Chart - Manning the Barricades   Training Chart - Movement by Night   Training Chart - Stalking   Training Chart - Make Yourself an Invisible Man   Training Chart - What You Should Know about Hand Grenades   Home Guard Courses - South Staffs Zone (1943)   Hints for the Home Guard (Fitzwilliams)   Handbook for the Thompson Submachine Gun (1940) Rough Stuff for Home Guards (Duffield and Elliot)   The HG Encyclopedia (Elliot)   Parachutes over Britain (Langdon-Davies)   The Art of Prowling (Wade - Gale & Polden)   The Defence of Villages and Small Towns (Wade - Gale & Polden)   Road Blocks (Wade - Gale & Polden)   The Fighting Patrol (Wade - Gale & Polden)   Fighting Patrol Training (Wade - Gale & Polden)   Fighting Patrol Tactics (Wade - Gale & Polden)   Fire Control (Wade - Gale & Polden)   Combat without Weapons (Leather - Gale & Polden)   The Complete Lewis Gunner (Gale & Polden)   The Sten Machine Carbine (Gale & Polden)   The Thompson Submachine Gun (Gale & Polden)   Lewis Machine Gun Mechanism Made Easy (Gale & Polden)   Drill Up To Date Wireless and How it Works (Longmans)   The Theory of Rifle Fire (Gale & Polden)   The Service Rifle and How to Use it (Gale & Polden)   We Shall Fight in the Streets (Cuthbert - Gale & Polden)   Home Guard Warfare (Langdon-Davies)   Home Guard for Victory (Slater)   Boys Anti-tank Rifle (Gale & Polden)   Bayonet Battle Training (Twine - Gale & Polden)   The Browning Heavy Machine Gun Mechanism Made Easy (Gale & Polden)   Unarmed Combat (Hipkiss)   Home Guard Pocket Book (Green - Worthing Gazette)   Map Reading, Scouting and Camouflage ("The Scout"   Rifle Training for War (Robinson - Cassell)   Home Guard Training (Levey - Eyre & Spottiswoode)   Unarmed Action - A Handbook for the Home Guard (Wood)   Training Course for Home Guard Instructors (Marques)   General Knowledge for Home Guards (Mackay)   .300 Lewis Gun for the Home Guard (Bodman - Bravon Ledger, 1941)   The Home Guard Signalling Manual (Walters - Pearson)   Harrying the Hun (Demuth)   Practical Camouflage (Demuth)   The Home Guard Pocket Manual   Camouflage Simply Explained (Smith - Pitman)   Guns for the Home Guard   How to Stalk (Langdon-Davies - Murray)   Manual of the Sten Gun (Manders, Capper)   The Fighting Patrol (Wade - Gale & Polden)   A Home Guard Drill Book and Field Service Manual   Advanced Training for the Home Guard (Brophy - Hodder & Stoughton)   Home Guard - A Handbook for the LDV (Brophy - Hodder & Stoughton)   Home Guard Proficiency (Brophy - Hodder & Stoughton)   Practical Unarmed Combat (Feldenkrais)   Small Arms Manual (Barlow - Murray)   The Home Guard Training Manual (Langdon-Davies)   The Home Guard Fieldcraft Manual (Langdon-Davies - Murray)

Please note that some of the above associated pages are large files and will be slow to download on non-broadband connections

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Mick Ackrill, the owner of the original documents who has generously made copies available to staffshomeguard and permitted their publication within this website; and to the original authors and publishers and their successors, most of whom are now untraceable after the passing of 65 or more years.

This website is entirely non-commercial. Its sole intent is to commemorate the men who served in the Home Guard throughout WW2 and to inform others who wish to keep these memories alive. Nevertheless, if a visitor with a proprietary interest in the original material feels that ownership rights are not being properly observed, he or she is asked to contact staffshomeguard without delay using the Feedback link below. The material will then be removed from public scrutiny immediately if that is the owner's desire.