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Local Defence Volunteers (LDV)

Name: Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1940Date range

2Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill14 May 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Foundation of the Local Defence Volunteers, later Home Guard

Robert Anthony Eden Avon, 1st14 May 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Calls for volunteers to form the LDV, within 24 hours 250,000 enrol

Names involved

Robert Anthony Eden Avon, 1stWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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