Noodles
knowlegable brummie
Am interested in finding out in which home Guard Battalion my father served. His name was Billy Spiers (William Edward) born 1910. He served in the Home Guard 1940-1945 period and was employed throughout by John Lucas Formans Road as a Battery Die-caster classed as 'Essential duties' because at Formans Road they made batteries for Tanks and other armoured vehicles. Our house was bombed out in (I believe) the Autumn of 1940 whilst my Dad was on fire watching duties on the roof of Lucas Formans Road factory. When he came off duty in the morning, on returning home he found our house in (I believe Doloban Road) in ruins and minus my mother Hilda Spiers and your truly (Bobby) aged 2. He eventually made his way to Main Street, Sparkbrook where he found Mom cradling me in the cellar with his mother.
I have never learned in what Battalion he served but found the posting on 24th Warwickshire in this Forum the one of most interest, as the Battalion reputedly covered Sparkhill, parts of Moseley and Sparkbrook. If anyone knows of my father -known always as Billy Spiers and a keen amateur footballer (capped for South Birmingham as a schoolboy, and later playing for and later captaining Lucas Formans Road - or knows of anyone else employed by Lucas at Formans Road during the war, I would like to hear from them. Dad sadly died in 1982.
I only have one photo of him at that time and that is a family with my mother holding my sister and Dad holding my hand. He was in Home Guard Uniform but the photo far too indistinct to make out any details. Any help to further my knowledge of his Home Guard life will be most welcome.
I have never learned in what Battalion he served but found the posting on 24th Warwickshire in this Forum the one of most interest, as the Battalion reputedly covered Sparkhill, parts of Moseley and Sparkbrook. If anyone knows of my father -known always as Billy Spiers and a keen amateur footballer (capped for South Birmingham as a schoolboy, and later playing for and later captaining Lucas Formans Road - or knows of anyone else employed by Lucas at Formans Road during the war, I would like to hear from them. Dad sadly died in 1982.
I only have one photo of him at that time and that is a family with my mother holding my sister and Dad holding my hand. He was in Home Guard Uniform but the photo far too indistinct to make out any details. Any help to further my knowledge of his Home Guard life will be most welcome.