Thank you for the information. Mildred Robson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [NMB] Tynemouth area Home Guard WW2 > Hi Mildred > > This may be of interest, from the National Archives research guides > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=147 > > Item No 7 > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> My father-in-law H. G. Robson was a member of the Home Guard during WW2. >> He >> lived in North Shields and there is a photograph of him in uniform with >> an >> arm band, on which is written Home Guard. No other insignia can be seen. >> I >> have no other information about his time in the Home Guard. >> I understand that the Tynemouth Battalion of the Home Guard had a number >> of > > >