The Real ‘Dad’s Army’ From the Imperial War Museum website: The Home Guard was set up in May 1940 as Britain’s ‘last line of defence’ against German invasion. Members of this ‘Dad’s Army’ were usually men above or below the age of conscription and those unfit or ineligible for front line military service. On 14 … Continue reading 1940: An Embarrassing Injury, and an Embarrassing Mistake! Some of the misadventures of Nonington’s own “Dad’s Army”