
Lydney Home Guard 1944-1945
Machine Gun Instruction
Back- All standing (Row 3) Left to right: 1 Corporal Harold Launchbury, 2 Private Stan Smith, 3 ,4 , 5, 6, 7 Private Sid Ellis,8 ,9, 10, 11, 12
Front
.All seated/squatting (Row 2): 1 , 2 , 3 ,4 , 5 Alfed (Rocky) George from Alvington.
Centre Front (Row 1): 1 George Edwards.
Jim added: "Harold Launchbury taught maths at Lydney Grammar School, ... George Edwards kept the Tutnalls Post Office at the bottom of Mount Pleasant".
Thanks also to H J Warren and Jo Watkins worked who added "... Sid Ellis worked
in Watt's Ironmongers,High Street, Lydney."