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Washington Home Guard 1940 to 1945

By Chair Washington History Society

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

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There are two excellent resources for researching the service of no less than the 1,391 men of the 23rd Home Guard Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry (Washington), downloaded records from the National Archives (only those of County Durham are online), and a 1941 map showing the deployment of the Home Guard in Washington, available from the Durham Record Office.

An article under the War Years and Military tab has an article telling this story, and includes the map and a searchable index of the men

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