School For Home Guard (1941)

Title reads: “School for Home Guard“. Location of events unknown. Various shots of soldiers of the Home Guard firing rifles and machine guns in training, they are closely supervised by officers. Various shots of the men throwing grenades: Mills bombs, grenades “shaped like a thermos flask“ and special antitank hand grenades, “sticky bombs“. The soldiers through the grenades at a chalk rock face, looks like old quarry. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed