Dear C I accessed the National Archives - looking for evidence of a Duddington Home Guard - and I discovered the attached document. This ascribes the '2nd Huntingdonshire' Home Guard Battalion to a Sergeant recommended for a BEM - and who appears to have marched as a Home Guard representative in 1952 during the Coronation of QEII (this is described in the document). Was there a Home Guard contingent reformed this late after WWII just to take part in this march? Furthermore, if it is correct that the 1st and 2nd Peterborough Battalions of Northants were transferred to Huntingdonshire - as suggested in the standard Northants work - and if each kept its own number designation, then this would have meant that Huntingdonshire would have possessed two '1st' and '2nd' Battalions! Of course, you have pointed-out a contradiction in this. Best Wishes Adrian
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Believe or not, American in Utah (possibly Mormons) spend their time accessing British genealogical records - and presenting this data for sale in the public domain. Of course, as we - the British people - own this data, we are entitled to access it for free if we are prepared to visit Records Offices and Libraries and carry-out the research ourselves. As these places like to 'charge' us by placing a pay-wall between ourselves and our historical data - it is not always easy to access the information that defines our very being. Still, once one or two of us gains access to this data - we can (as a matter of duty) - place it in the public domain for free consumption. We may have used some of this data already in our family research - but there is much more general information to be gleamed! This may well be useful to "Wyles" people living in other areas! These four-county Parish Records include 'Births', 'Christenings', 'Deaths', 'Marriages' and 'Court Cases', etc. My partner - Gee - accessed this CD disc and what is reproduced here are the screenshots she carefully made:
On the bottom of the WWI Monument situated at the gate of St Mary's Church - Duddington - there is a section recording the death of a 'Sergeant' Killed in Action in North Africa during WWII! His name is obscured by the wreath. This means there were men in Duddington who had joined the British Army during WWII. Interestingly, although there is a metal plaque and hand-written list honouring the Duddington men who fought during WWI - there is nothing recording the men who fought during WWII. This might explain why I cannot find anything about a Duddington 'Home Guard' during WWII! The dedicated online website detailing the Northants Home Guard mentions all the surrounding areas - but does not mention Duddington, King's Cliff or Gretton for that matter! Given that the British government ordered (in 1942) that all areas of the UK had to have an 'Invasion Plan' - these areas must have possessed some type of Civil Defence Force. This makes me wonder whether perhaps the Duddington Home Guard defence did not fall in the Northants area. I have contacted the local Vicar for Duddington, the Northants Records Office, the Women's Institute, King's Cliffe Museum and an 'expert' on the history of the Home Guard - and none of these depositories of knowledge have anything to add to this subject. However, the general consensus is that Duddington probably did possess a Home Guard - even if their is no tangible evidence for it!
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