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Small Heath Home Guard

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Does anyone know where I might find information/photos of the 37th bn Home Guard that covered Small Heath
 
Chris - thanks for the info, I am trying to find some information about the battalion and hopefully some unit photo's but have been unlucky so far - thanks also for the link, there is a little bit of information on that
 
Lencops

Do you realize this is the same Carlton Cinema which received a direct hit on 25th October 1940 when 20 people were killed? On the anniversary last year a memorial was unveiled and a service held on the site in memory of the people who died. One lady who attended was a child at the time and evacuated to the countryside with her sister. That night her parents went to the cinema and both were killed.

Junie
 
Junie, Yes i did know, one of the most casualities in place, i understand most people were still sitting in their seats when the bomb hit the Carlton Cinema.
 
Junie, 56 people were killed in Brum on the 25/10/1940, i don`t know how many were injured and survived, the Home Guard photo was taken, obviously before that date.
 
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