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Cinderford Home Guard

An old photo of Cinderford Home Guard from World War 2.

Back Row (L-R): 1 B. Edwards, 2 J. Ruck, 3 Eric Weaving,, 4?, 5 Tim Ruck, 6?, 7 Bert Robins, 8 Harold Bennett, 9 Hill, 10?
2nd Row (L-R): 1?, 2 Frank Weaving, 3?, 4 Mosely, 5 Bert Eagles, 6 A. Simmonds, 7 Vic Mindy 8 Ashley Powell.
Front Row (L-R): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Bill Bevan , 6, 7.

Thanks also to Nick Ruck, Michael Powell, Royston Pritchard and Terry Morton Rush.

Tim also added (December 2019): "...On the back row, number 3, is Eric Weaving. number 7 is Bert Robins. number 8 is Harold Bennett. On the middle row, number 2 is Frank Weaving (Father of aforementioned, Eric Weaving). number 7 is Vic Mindy (also the local barber). On the front row, number 5 is Bill Bevan (Cinderford Town's, prolific, Centre Forward). Great thanks and appreciation, to my Father, Bob Ruck, for putting a few more, missing names to sadly forgotten faces".

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