Dad's Army Home Guard

Dad's Army Home Guard

There was also a radio version based on the television scripts a feature film and a stage show. WR28 Battalion Haworth Home Guard demonstrates the Northover Projector in a training exercise.


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Operational from 1940 until 1944 the Home Guard comprising 15 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service usually owing to age hence the nickname Dads Army acted as a secondary defence force in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany and their allies.

Dad's army home guard. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. What started as an improvised band of volunteers had grown by 1942 into a conscripted disciplined and well-equipped force with a strength of nearly two million men. The boxed set contains 18 superbly detailed miniatures sculpted by Paul Hicks - representations of the cast of the classic TV series Dads Army in civilian and Home Guard attire.

A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table before going on parade 1 December 1940. This is a list of characters in the British television comedy series Dads Army 1968-1977. Members of this Dads Army were usually men above or below the age of conscription and those unfit or ineligible for front line military service.

The platoons two sections are commanded by Lance-Corporal Jones. The real Dads Army. In addition to the seven main characters all members of the fictional Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon the series featured a large cast of recurring characters many of whom began to appear regularly in episodes particularly following the death of James Beck who played Private Walker.

Dads Armyis a British sitcom that was broadcasted on the BBC between 1968 and 1977 about a platoon of the British Home Guards tasked with defending the fictional town of Walmington-on-Sea in the event of a German invasion. An instructional film in the style of a. Included are Captain Mainwaring Sergeant Wilson Lance-Corporal Jones Privates Pike Walker Frazer and Godfrey plus Warden Hodges the Verger and Reverend Farthing.

Over the course of the war the Home Guard would gradually become a better equipped and better-trained army of 17 million men. On 14 May 1940 Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden made a broadcast calling for men between the ages of 17 and 65 to enrol in a new force the Local Defence Volunteers LDV. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated worldwide.

The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total. The image of the Home Guard is commonly linked to the British TV show Dads Army. The Home Guard was set up in May 1940 as Britains last line of defence against German invasion.

Our officially licenced Dads Army Home Guard platoon boxed set is out today. Throughout the span of Dads Army on TV in the film on stage and on radio there have been many different members of the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard platoon who have been referred to at one point or another. The Home Guard initially the Local Defence Volunteers or LDV was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

Based on the long-running TV series these superb miniatures are now available to buy in store. The men of the platoon always wear cap badges of the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment as part of their uniform. Dads Army is a BBC sitcom about the British militia called the Home Guard during the Second World War.

In the opening episode of Dads Army Britains Home Guard or rather as it was called originally the Local Defence Volunteers - or LDV was born in broad daylight on Tuesday 14 May 1940. The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dads Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed the British Home Guard. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise in.

Home Guard cartoons showing bumbling Dads Army preparing to fight the Nazis that were censored during the war for being too controversial are now up for sale Artist and Great War veteran Gilbert. Buy now in Webstore During the dark days of 1940 Britain was under dire threat of Nazi invasion.