Home Guard

English

Proper noun

(Britain, military, historical) An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular defence against any invasion by enemy forces.
- 1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629:
  Later in the year the title of Local Defence Volunteer was changed to the more appropriate one of Home Guard.

References

“Home Guard”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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