( W cont. )

Surname	Forenames	Born
Wilkins	Thomas	3 Aug 1919
Wilkins	William	4 Apr 1922
Wilkinson	George	15 Dec 1897
Wilkinson	Jean Jacob	15 Aug 1917
Wilkinson	Henry G.	28 June 1919
Wilkinson	George	18 Oct 1924
Wilkinson	Robert	16 Jan 1925
Willcock	William	12 Nov 1919
Willcock	George	17 Dec 1922
Williams	Robert	2 Jan 1900
Williams	Thomas	7 Feb 1917 B
Williamson	George William	15 June 1899
Williamson	John	14 Feb 1920
Wilson	John	28 May 1898
Wilson	Ralph	15 Mar 1899
Wilson	Thomas	23 Oct 1899
Wilson	Matthew	21 July 1904
Wilson	Robert Little	16 Sep 1909
Wilson	William James	12 Dec 1910
Wilson	William	24 Feb 1912
Wilson	Thomas Ramshaw	28 Mar 1912
Wilson	John	13 Nov 1913
Wilson	Thomas Weatherell	21 Feb 1914
Wilson	Edward Steven	16 May 1915
Wilson	John Andrew	26 Feb 1916
Wilson	William	20 Sep 1916
Wilson	Alfred William	30 Sep 1919
Wilson	John Thomas	4 May 1920
Wilson	Andrew	29 Dec 1921
Wilson	John	7 Dec 1922

( W cont. - Y )

Surname	Forenames	Born
Wilson	William (Junior)	6 Apr 1924
Wilson	James	4 Oct 1925
Winder	Norman	29 June 1917
Winn	George	16 Apr 1890
Winship	Ambrose Norton	14 Sep 1903
Winship	Arthur	10 May 1917
Winter	Joseph Todd	3 Feb 1914
Winter	Edward	3 Sep 1924
Witherspoon	John George	12 July 1905
Witherspoon	Robert William	26 Aug 1912
Wood	George	24 Mar 1897
Wood	William Deakin	8 Sep 1914
Wood	Thomas Todd	5 Aug 1922
Wood	William	29 Aug 1924
Wood	John Fothergill	3 July 1925
Woodhall	Laurance	17 July 1907
Woosey	John	28 June 1895
Woosey	John (Junior)	20 Aug 1921
Wright	William Henry	5 July 1897
Wright	Thomas	11 Feb 1899
Wright	John	2 Feb 1901
Y	-	-
Yates	Ambrose P.	26 Apr 1905
Yeaman	Joseph	2 May 1925
Yearsley	Robert	22 July 1910
Young	John William	13 July 1891
Young	Thomas	28 Nov 1907
Young	Richard Donald	31 Mar 1921
Young	Stephen Edward	3 May 1923
Young	Thomas	27 Aug 1926

HOME GUARD AUXILIARIES

Surname	Forenames	Born
Davison	John	18 Apr 1918
Davison	J.	(unknown)
Marshall	John James	17 Dec 1911
Richardson	Thomas	12 July 1922
Robson	J.	(unknown)
Snowdon	William	4 July 1923
Stephenson	Robert Stanley	9 Aug 1900

Auxiliaries
Support Personel trained in
Specialised Techniques.

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an unpaid armed citizen militia supporting the 'Home Forces' of the British Army during the Second World War.  Operational from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard comprised more than 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service. Volunteers included those who were too young or too old to join the regular armed services (regular military service was restricted to those aged 18 to 41) and those working in Reserved Occupations.  Excluding those already in the armed services, the civilian police or other civil defence volunteer organisations, approximately one in five men were Home Guard volunteers.  Their primary role was to act as a secondary defence force in their home locality in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany.   [Thanks to Wikipedia].

Visit Index / 'War Years and Military' / 'Washington Home Guard' at  washingtonhistorysociety.co.uk
for a profile of the Washington Home Guard, including a unique 1941 map, showing where the Washington platoons were deployed in the town.

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[ Thanks to:  Washington History Society  &  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ]

DAD'S ARMY
Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe)  -  Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier)  -  Lance Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn)  -  Private Frazer (John Laurie)
Private Walker (James Beck)  -  Private Pike (Ian Lavender)  -  Private Godfrey (Arnold Ridley)
[ Private Joke with my Dad, the late Corporal James Gill ]
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