WOMEN’S HOME GUARD
TO WATCH FOR RAIDERS WORK FROM DAWN TO DARK (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 29 The Suffolk village of Benhall has Instituted a women’s home guard of volunteers, aged between 17 and 70, to watch the skies from dawn to dark when the official Home Guards are on duty. The organiser, Mrs Pepper, a farmer’s wife, said that, except for women nursing young babies, all the Villagers had enlisted. “We are practical women,” she ©aid* “ Last week our members on duty extinguished a fire that was threatening a wheatfield. We daily practise identifying aircraft. Some ©f us are good shots, but at present we are not permitted to carry arms.” The Chief of the Benhall Home Guards thoroughly approves and welcomes the women’s assistance.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 7
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129WOMEN’S HOME GUARD Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 7
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