By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425
A Home Guard platoon during the Second World War – a picture believed to have been taken at one of the Cowley car factories While our brave troops fought the enemy, another worthy group of men protected our communities back home. The Home Guard may be seen as a comical and often clumsy and haphazard outfit in the popular Dad’s Army on TV. In truth, its members worked hard to protect everyone during the Second World War, particularly when German bombs were raining down and the threat of invasion was very real.