Ok chaps, I have canvassed a couple of cousins and I believe I have revealed the cause of the separate service dates.
Ted was in the Home Guard in Dalston, in East London ( Hackney area). The family were bombed out and moved to live with extended family in Halstead in Essex. There he joined the local HG unit which accounted for the hiatus in his service.
A story he once told my cousin was that when at his new unit in Essex there was an accident during a live grenade throwing practice and a man was killed , saving some of the other Home Guard servicemen.
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