WHO'S IN HOME GUARD
fellows want to play football in the juniors but won't join the Home Guard. Why not? Out our way all the lads from 1G upwards are in the Home Guard. Where do your junior footballers live ? Round them up and publish their names as bringing the total Guardsmen up to 1500. Anyway, I hope the BEACON will continue to shed its light on Home Guard activities. Even if every company follows the same syllabus, there are lots of unrehearsed incidents worth repeating. Let the boys overseas who get the BEACON posted to them see that all is not quiet on the East Coast front, but that the Home Guard is very much alive Yours etc.,j STILL RATHER IN THE DARK.
Sir, —Thank you. for information 1 'A regarding the Home Guard. Jj doubt it is too much to expect the* *J| BEACON to publish a list of 1400 ICT County Home Guardsmen. Perhaps* the total could be swelled to 150Qr or 2000,. if a further canvas was? jjfl made to enlist "the big ones that got away" when the companies were la formed a few months away. I readL $ in the BEACON that some vcunff-'l ®
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 309, 23 May 1941, Page 4
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203WHO'S IN HOME GUARD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 309, 23 May 1941, Page 4
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