The 'ME' Women's Home Guard
Photos and insignia of women Home Guard units are comparatively rare.
But one semi-famous set of publicity photos and Pathe film show a southern factory unit of women Home Guards c.1941/42 in uniform. It shows them marching and undertaking rifle drill.
They wear shoulder titles made of cut down Home Guard titles so that they read 'ME GUARD' (removing the first two letters).
Presumably, the 'ME' is the coincidental initials of the company they worked for?
If so, does anybody know which company it was or if it wasn't company initials, what the 'ME' stood for?
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