| Description | Contents
Introduction
Sussex Home Guard Chronology
Chapter 1: The Volunteer Spirit
Chapter 2: The Early Days 1940
- The Local Defence Volunteers
- Chosen Men
- Behold in me an LDV
- Getting Organised
- From Dusk to Dawn
- A distinct lack of weapons
- Reorganisation
- Armbands and Forage Caps
- Renaming
- A Seaward Watch
- The Lewes Cossacks
- Turn Out The Guard
- Signalling and communication
Chapter 3: Training
- Early training
- Training manuals
- On film
- Tired men
- Home Guard Training Schools
- On exercise
- Canadians in Sussex
- Home Guard Proficiency Tests
Chapter 4: Consolidation
- Command structure
- Commissions
- Conscription
- A question of age
- Social and ceremonial
- The third anniversary
- Press call
- Women in the Home Guard
Chapter 5: A changing role
- Worth Forest War Book
- Coastal defence
Chapter 6: Equipment
- Uniform
- Home Guard weaponry
Chapter 7: The specialists
- 11th Sussex (39th GPO) Battalion: The companies; duties; Post Office Signals School
- 12th Sussex (Southdown Motor Transport) Battalion and The Sussex Transport Column
- 25th Sussex (2nd Southern Railway) Battalion: Southern on guard; weapons; training; anti-aircraft troops; stand down
- Sussex Recovery Company
- Auxiliary units
Chapter 8: The Home Guard's Final Days
- Stand down
- In recognition
- The Home Guard spirit
- Reformation
- The Battalions at stand down, December 1944
- Conlusion
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