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Title: Home Guard-WW2
Post by: saxonmick on Saturday 09 August 08 18:28 BST (UK)

 Can any one please HELP !!   
my father-in-law was in the Home guard in  WW2
I am unable to trace the unit he was in.

He lived in Walthamstow ( essex )  London,  by the High Street.
He patrolled  the railway yards at Temple Mills ( Leyton )  in East London.

Regards Mick

Title: Re: Home Guard-WW2
Post by: kyt on Saturday 09 August 08 19:32 BST (UK)

Service records of members of the Home Guard are currently being held at TNT Archive Service, Tetron Point, William Nadin Way, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0BB, Tel: 01283 227 911/912/913, Fax: 01283 227 942. Information is available to either those who served or their next-of-kin.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletID=241&j=1

K

Title: Re: Home Guard-WW2
Post by: ChrisEM on Monday 11 August 08 09:08 BST (UK)

saxonmick...

I attempted to pull together some guidelines on methods of tracking down Home Guard members here:
http://www.staffshomeguard.co.uk/J9GeneralInformationSearchingforMembers.htm
which might be of some use to you.   I believe that the comments are still valid but if you - or any other forum member engaged on a similar quest - can add anything following your current experience, I should be very grateful to hear it.

It sounds as though your father-in-law might well have belonged to one of the railway units, of which there were many.

Chris