Home Guard
English
Proper noun
Home Guard
- (Britain, military, historical) An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular defence against any invasion by enemy forces.
- 1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629:
- Later in the year the title of Local Defence Volunteer was changed to the more appropriate one of Home Guard.
References
- “Home Guard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.