NOUN
- a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
How To Use home guard In A Sentence
- He was allowed in, but only as a private and served under the command of his own gamekeeper until the Home Guard was disbanded.
- When war broke out she became secretary of the local Home Guard in Spalding, but had really set her heart on joining the Wrens and, against her father's wishes, secretly applied.
- Everyone had their place in a civilian command structure that was echoed by the ranks of the Home Guard.
- The locals attempt to salvage its cargo of thousands of cases of whisky and outwit Home Guard Captain Waggett and the excise officers.
- Formed in the dark days after Dunkirk, the Local Defence Volunteers, later the Home Guard, were expected to make up for lack of weapons with bulldog spirit.
- Physically strong and mentally agile, he is very much active in the Home Guards.
- In the United States the Komondor is primarily a home guard and companion, and livestock guard dog.
- They applied pressure in the dying stages but the home guard stood their ground to earn a passport to the next round.
- In large part through British manipulation of local politics, the struggle in Kenya became a kind of civil war, with the Home Guard and African police thrown into the thick of it.
- As it is, more than ten Home Guards and traffic police have been deputed to manage traffic around the flyover.