Yeovil's Virtual Museum

home guard weapons

As used by Yeovil's Home Guard

 

Rifles Sten Submachine Gun Thompson Submachine Gun Boys Anti-Tank Rifle Bren Light Machine Gun Lewis Light Machine Gun Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT)

Northover Projector Blacker Bombard Vickers Medium Machine Gun 2-pdr Anti-Tank Gun Smith Gun Mines Flame Fougasse

 

Courtesy of Rob Baker

This photograph of the Yeovil Home Guard is undated, but judging by the array of weapons, is probably late 1943 or early 1944. The major weapons included in this photograph indicate conclusively that Yeovil was one of the better-equipped Home Guard Battalions.