Manual - HOME GUARD TRAINING MANUALS, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940-1942

Historical information

1. 2. 3. This is an English book designed for WW2.
4. This is an Australian book designed for WW2.
5. This is a British Commonwealth Book. GB, NZ, Aust.

Physical description

1. Home Guard Handbook - red buckram cover. Blue and black printing, it has 126 pages of text and weapon drawings. Author John Brophy.
2. Home Guard Fieldcraft Manual. Green buckram cover, black print, small book and map of Australia on front. 171 pages of text and drawings and photos. Author Major John Langdon-Davies.
3. Advance Training for the Home Guard. Author John Brophy. This book has a blue buckram cover. Printing is in black ink. It has 142 pages of text and drawings.
4. The essentials of training for the home guard, Weapons and minor Infantry tactics. Author Capt. A.S. Keighley ex AIF . 36 pages and drawings.
5. The Home Guard in the Field. Light blue cardboard cover. 52 pages of text and drawings.

Inscriptions & markings

1. Marked on the top is “1/9”
2. First page has “3/3” written in pencil.
3. Front cover has a tattered label from “McGills Agency, Elizabeth St, Vic”
4. Marked on front in pencil “5/8” Also has a round sticky label from “Albury Book Bazaar”
5. Rubber stamp on front cover from McGills Agency.

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