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09-01-15, 03:12 PM
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Women in the Home Guard
A recent browse on the Pathe website brought up a short file entitled Arms and the Girls which covers a uniformed women's HG unit. There's no sound so who and where remains unknown. This may be the uniformed Royal Arsenal Defence Auxiliaries mentioned in my Home Guard uniforms and insignia book In the Space of a Single Day.
The use of a trimmed Home Guard arm title is interesting. The link is - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/arms-and-the-girls Jon 
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09-01-15, 04:49 PM
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The great thing about threads like this is that if you did not know it, you might possibly see a Home Guard title like this one at a fair or elsewhere and think the some idiot had cut up a standard Home Guard title as an act of vandalism and pass it over.
P.B.
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09-01-15, 06:51 PM
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Home Guard cloth title
I have somewhere a cloth title for the Home Guard which is much smaller than the standard one, could this have been worn by women members?
Rob
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10-01-15, 12:05 AM
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Nice find Jon! This is why I love... and hate the women's items. They often modified items and embellished uniforms to show their pride and/or their defiance to the status quo, which makes for quite a few variations. You should see some of the oddities that I have picked up over the years to women. Group photos always fascinate me most, as there are rarely two women exactly alike as far as insignia and uniformity go.
Regards, Jeff
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