Home Guards’ Birthday (1944)

Title reads: “Home guard’s birthday“. London. Various shots of units of the Home Guard march through Hyde Park. King George VI takes salute from platform, General Sir Henry Lloyd of London District. Equipment used by the Home Guard is also paraded, including ack-ack guns and the new rocket projectors. More shots of Guardsmen marching in parade, large crowds watch. It is the Home Guard’s fourth anniversary. FILM ID:1358.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed