Thread: How would the Home Guard have actually fared?
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Old 27-10-2008, 10:34 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by phylo_roadking View Post
Coming late to this, but British anti-invasion plans have always been an interest of mine...

AND one badly-remembered and recorded Australian infantry division in the Home Counties!
Can you elaborate on the above as I was under the impression that there were only two brigades?

One coming from Australia and one raised in the UK.

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Geoff
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