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Home Guard

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 File

“HL Personal", 1955 - 1963, 1987

Reference Code:  GBR/0014/LAUT 5/7
Scope and Contents

Includes: copies of HL's various wills, executors' accounts and a note of conversation with Elihu Lauterpacht shortly before his death on how he wished his property to be left; correspondence with Stephen Schwebel on the Lauterpacht Fund; later press cutting on the Home Guard in Cambridge, including HL.

Dates: 1955 - 1963; 1987
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Map of Cambridge, annotated for HL’s use with the Home Guard, 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 5/3
Scope and Contents

Includes notations of road blocks, pill boxes, tank traps, wire, special guards, petrol pumps, military [?] report centres, first aid posts, decontamination centres and police phone boxes.

Dates: 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series — Object MS Add.7959 Roll : Series GBR/0012/MS Add.7959/6

Roll: `Plan of communications in area of 4 Cambs Bn H.G. (excluding G.P.O. telephones)', 1939 - 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7959/6
Dates: 1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Access restricted due to fragile nature of material.