This blogpost will tell you all about the HomeGuard from World War 2 in 1939.

The people in the HomeGuard were volunteers who lived in the area and they tried to protect their hometown from invasion by the Germans but obviously, that never happened…ever! Homeguard volunteers often were really clumsy and got hurt a lot, especially the older ones who are around 80 years old. The HomeGuard was organised by Winston Churchill in 1939 and 1940. The HomeGuard volunteers didn’t have proper weapons, they had ancient weapons. 250,000 Pikes were issued and used by the HomeGuard as weapons against what would be the ‘invaders’, the Germans.