Home Guard

Home Guard

Home Guard or Home Army may refer to:

Military

*British Home Guard
*Confederate Home Guard, during the American Civil War
*Croatian Home Guard and Imperial Croatian Home Guard
*Danish Home Guard
*Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil War
*Indian Home Guard
*Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (1944)
*Militia
*National Guard of the United States
*Norwegian Home Guard
*Polish Home Army or Armia Krajowa
*Sri Lankan Home Guard
*State Defense Forces
*Swedish Home Guard
*Territorial Army, British reserve forces
*Ulster Defence Volunteers
*Volkssturm, German Home Guard (Second World War)

Other

*"The Old Home Guard", a song in the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"
*Home Guard (Shannara), in Terry Brooks' novel series

ee also

*Home front
*Dad's Army


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