BRITISH HOME GUARD
19-YEAR-OLD YOUTH KILLED SERVICE BY JOURNALISTS (United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyrlsbt) LONDON, August 11 Ronald Nesbitt, aged 19 years, was the first member of the Home Guard killed in action.
He was patrolling a railway line when a German plane dived from the clouds and machine-gunned him. Almost every Australian and New Zealand journalist in London, in common with non-military and ablebodied Englishmen, parades with the Home Guard when normal work is finished.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 7
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77BRITISH HOME GUARD Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 7
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