Home Guard At School (1940)

Full title reads: Home Guard School. VS Good shots of men of the Home Guard being taught how to throw grenades, how to look after a rifle and how to block and defend a road. They are taught how to build models to plan attacks. VS of home guardsmen on manoeuvres practising how to rush out and block a road, each man has a duty, one fits a trip wire across the road, others erect a barbed wire barricade while others fire on the enemy from positions beside the road. A group of children on bikes represent the enemy in the exercise. N. B. For some reason shots of advancing Nazi German troops are intercut with the Dad s Army style material. MD FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136, 000 items from th