Some of the misadventures of Nonington’s own “Dad’s Army” Home Guard recruitment posters from 1940 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 … Continue reading 1940: An Embarrassing Injury, and an Embarrassing Mistake!