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The Home Guard Association

The Home Guard Association is recognised by the Royal British Legion. Representing veterans and commemorating the role of the Home Guard 1940-44. "We welcome ex-Home Guards as members of the association"

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The Men of Britain are the founders of The Home Guard Association recognised by the Royal British Legion as the premier veteran group of the Home Guard. Each year, the association take ex-Home Guards to the Cenotaph to join the march past on Remembrance Sunday. If you served with the Home Guard during World War Two and would like to join the association (there are no membership fees) please contact The Home Guard Association via this website. Formed in 1999, the Men of Britain Home Guard Group have represented the role of the WW2 Home Defence force as Local Defence Volunteers and a complete Home Guard section at many living history events, museum education days, public ceremonies and commemoration events (such as The Lord Mayors Parade & Royal British Legion Remembrance Festival) as well as work on many television / radio documentaries. The structure and team spirit owes much to one of the founder members of the group, the historian Mik Burkenshaw, who remains an honourary member of the group. By bringing the memory of the Home Guard back to life, The Men of Britain are determined that the important role played by these part time soldiers is professionally re-created to educate, inform and remember their sacrifice - over 1200 home guards lost their life in pursuit of the defence of our country.
		...we will remember them.
	Home Guard veterans group proudly wearing the Home Guard Association brassards at Horse Guards Parade, Remembrance Sunday 2005
Home Guard Association group forming up in their column at Horse Guards Parade, Remembrance Sunday 2004 led by Mik Burkenshaw
	Denis Showell (35th City of London Batt.) with the Royal British Legion wreath - handmade Home Guard centrepiece, made by Mik Burkenshaw, founder of the Association.
Alex Webb at the Cenotaph to remember his grandfather, Stanley Henry Callow (Louise's father), who served with the Middlesex Home Guard during 1940-43
	Old comrades - Peter Ireland who served in the LNER Home Guard during WW2 at the Cenotaph marchpast, Remembrance Sunday 2005
The Home Guard Association have successfully campaigned to secure a plot at the Field of Remembrance in Westminster Abbey - here, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh meets veterans and inspects the Association plot on the 9th November 2006. We remember 1,206 Home Guards killed on active service in WW2.