Homeguard

The home guard were volunteers to defend Britain from enemy’s like Germans in the 1940’s. Winston Churchill, who founded the home guard, was the prime minister during ww2. The home guard defended and reported any sightings of German activity.The home guard were made up of disabled citizens or those to old to fight,and those to young to fight as well. An approximate number of people in the home guard was one and a half million. The home guard helped the army with food and goods. The home guard was just as important because the soldiers fought but the home guard protected.

The government had expected 150000 volunteers , it was a defence organisation of Britains  army during the first and Second World War. We wanted more men in Grate Britain the jobs that men were meant to do the women did them instead like macking vegetable paks Andy planting seeds or digging holes in the ground people said in the war they needed more men because there wasn’t enough of them to kill of the Germans the women loved there job ometimes they did not all the time .