Join Morgan as he discusses the 4th Thames Home Guard Battalion which had responsibility for defending the 125 miles of coastline around the Firth of Thames and the Coromandel Peninsula.
The unit did so from 1941 through to 1943 working in co-operation with other local Home Guard units such as the No 3 Hauraki Independent Mounted Rifles.
The 4th Thames Home Guard Battalion was formed on the 4/3/1941, its first company totalling130 enrolments, by the beginning of May the Roll of the Battalion had reached 738 men.
The talk comes with a twist and is not to be missed.
