Images Dated 31st January 2014
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 6 pictures in our Images Dated 31st January 2014 collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
GWR Scenic Views
Stations and Halts
Locomotives
Carriages and Wagons
Swindon Works
Artwork and documents
The Railway at War
Places
Favourites
People
Signalling
Railway Air Services
Diesel Railcars
Steam Rail Motors
GWR Road Vehicles
GWR Shipping
Images Dated
> 2014
>> January
>>> 30 Jan 2014
>>> 31 Jan 2014
Featured 31 Jan 2014 Print
GWR's Home Guard battalions on parade at Castle Bar Park in London, c.1940
The Home Guard was originally known as the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV). The LDV was formed in May 1940, but in August 1940 the LDV changed its name to the Home Guard. Over 1 million men joined the Home Guard; their purpose to defend British shores against invasion from Germany. The GWR saw the need to protect their own property during World War II and formed their own official Home Guard battalions and platoons. This image from July 1943 shows one of the GWR's Home Guard battalions on parade at Castle Bar Park in London