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Home Guard

1940-1944 British Army auxiliary defence force
Organization military_unit Q919431

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
military unit
Native label
Home Guard[7]

Status and dates

Inception
May 14, 1940[4]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
December 31, 1945[5]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[2]
More facts +2
Military branch
British Army[3]
Participated in conflict
World War II[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Home Guard en LDV en Local Defence Volunteers en British Army Home Guard en Dad's Army de British Home Guard de Home Guard de Local Defence Volunteers fr British Home Guard fr Local Defence Volunteers he משמר המולדת (בריטניה) he מתנדבי הגנה מקומיים he צבאו של אבא id Home Guard (Britania Raya) ja ホーム・ガード ja ホームガード ja 郷土防衛義勇隊 ru Гвардия метрополии (Великобритания) zh 國民軍 zh 地方志愿军
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Home Guard 001896.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
5f3b96e8-5b42-41f0-b66e-a73d65ec257c
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Home-Guard
Freebase ID
/m/02461h
Jewish Museum Berlin person ID
jmb-pers-663868
SNARC ID
Ricky Berens
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
25057

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
military unit
Military branch 1
British Army
Participated in conflict 1
World War II
SNARC ID 1
Ricky Berens
← Main subject 1
Dad's Army
← Military branch 1
Christopher Lee
← Operator 1
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Summary

Home Guard is a military unit[1].

Related Entities

Christopher Lee United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . BBC Online. bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25w ago · הנדב הנכון · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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