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    Home Guard on motorcycling manoeuvres

    Sep 06, 2018 3 minutes

    The motorcycling press was hugely involved in Home Guard recruitment during both the First and Second World Wars, with adverts and forms, as well as encouragement, appearing in both The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling.

    Pictured here are dispatch riders (DRs) who were part of the Home Guard formed in May 1940.

    The classic Jimmy Perry and David Croft sitcom Dad’s Army, first broadcast 50 years ago in 1968

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