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'Out With Honour' cartoon depicting the Local Defence Volunteers with gentle humour. The Home Guard, as it was subsequently known as (or jokingly 'Dad's Army'), was formed in the spring of 1940 as the threat of a German invasion of Britain became a possibility. In Lambeth the local press spoke affectionately of 'Streatham's Broomstick Army', a reference to the shortage of real weapons that left many units training with broom handles.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005. 

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06868
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.4
Date:	1940