Immortalised in sitcom yet too often mistaken as comic, the Home Guard was a disciplined and often dangerous citizen army, whose volunteers stood ready to defend the nation against invasion.
EVEN now, it is a song that might be considered as an alternative National Anthem. The jaunty melody and the sentiment of ‘Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?’ – the theme tune to the BBC comedy Dad’s Army – is at once self-deprecating and steely. ‘We are the...
