Given the current issues we are facing and how reports suggest that Covid-19 can remain viable and infection of some surfaces for days after contamination can I suggest that people remember to sanitise their hands before and after finding the container and signing the log book. The main priority here is that we should always stay safe.
This is a simple cache and dash just outside Kilmington.
The Home Guard was an armed citizen militia supporting the British Armed forces during WW2. Their role was to act as a secondary defence force in case of invasion. Initially established on the 14 May 1940 it was finally stood down on the 3 December 1944 as the allied invasion of the continent made the Home Guard's role redundant. The Home Guard was finally disbanded at the end of 1944.
The Home Guard had just over 2 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, such as those who were too young or too old to join the regular armed forces or those in reserved occupations such as coal mining, ship building, and many engineering-related trades.
Anthony Eden, the secretary for war stated: “ No one will claim for the Home Guard that it is a miracle of organisation... but many would claim that it is a miracle of improvisation, and in that way it does express the particular genius of our people. If it has succeeded, as I think it has, it has been due to the spirit of the land and of the men in the Home Guard.”
But I think that Jimmy Perry and David Croft said it best at the end of the Dad’s Army stage play, when Captain Mainwaring delivered the following: “The home guard never went into battle, but the 2 million men; shop assistants, factory workers, doctors, lawyers, men from every walk of life gave of their spare time and in some cases their lives to defend their homeland. And if ever this island were in danger again men like those would be there once more, standing ready.”
And it was this spirit which mean that when the Home Guards were stood down, many reformed themselves into clubs so that they could continue to meet and work together, the bonds of friends remaining strong, and so it was for the men of H Company, 3rd Battalion Stourton and Kilmington Home Guard. The club and it’s club house has remained a vital part of the community ever since.
Congratulations to little-leggs on being the first to find this cache.