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Offline carolmc

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Sunderland Home Guard 1943
« on: Thursday 09 November 17 15:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi, does anyone have any photos of the Home Guard in Sunderland circa 1943 please? My father, Ken Watts, was in it, I have the record from the Nat,Arch. and would like any further information. Any help appreciated, Carolmc

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Re: Sunderland Home Guard 1943
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 November 17 16:05 GMT (UK) »
A long shot but the local archives might have photographs or possibly local newspapers might have featured the Home Guard.
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Sunderland Home Guard 1943
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 November 17 16:45 GMT (UK) »
There are photographs of the Sunderland Home Guard in "Sunderland's Blitz" published by The People's History Ltd. ISBN 1 902527 55 0 but there are no names.

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Re: Sunderland Home Guard 1943
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 November 17 16:56 GMT (UK) »
There are 1,473 mentions of the Home Guard in the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 1940-1949
You could try Local studies and family history https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/local-studies

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