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Originally Posted by Sonofacqms
Yes it is quite likely the paratrooper saw service in the Home Guard, I have read where some members of the SAS were recruited from the ranks of the 201, 202 and 203 auxilliary units when the SAS was expanded pre D-Day.
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For example, Captain L R Bradford of the Auxiliary Units in Sussex called for volunteers to drop into Normandy and operate behind German lines:
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.u...yunitspage.htm
Sadly, Captain Bradford was killed in action in July of 1944:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_...sualty=2346472
Besides this type of "Special Forces" element thousands of young men served in the Home Guard until they were old enough to join the forces. The Home Guard were not all old men, think Pike.
Also, men of military age, but in "Reserved Occupations" were directed in to the Home Guard. There was some trouble in Kent with Miners going on strike against conscription into the Home Guard.