LDV armband/Home Guard papers

[pjac]

Sorting out my late father's effects recently, I came across a khaki armband with 'LDV' printed in black and a smaller capital 'A' in red . Does anybody know what the A signifies?

There were also a number of documents relating to 41st County of Lancaster Battalion Home Guard - mainly relating to 'stand down ' in December 1944.

Dad was an industrial chemist with ICI before the war and although he'd been in the OTC at Queen's, Belfast, he was not allowed to join up, but had to join the LDV/Home Guard. His company, ' C', was, I think, based at Prestwich and included a number of men, who, like Dad, worked at ICI in Blackley , North Manchester.

I presume there are LDV/Home Guard collectors?

Patrick

[Graham Stewart]

LDV = Local Defence Volunteers. However as is the want of the British people in the event of a national emergency it became "Look - Duck & Vanish".

[pjac]

Since they didn't have proper weapons initially, that would have been a sensible policy anyway, if confronted by German paratroopers!

Patrick