HOME GUARD’S ARMS
BOW & ARROW WEAPONS LONDON, Sent. 1. When Mr. John Davey, ef Curtis, near Grimsby, goes on patrol as a Home Guard platoon commander, he carries a revolver and bow and arrows. He is archery champion of the north of England and he holds that a bow would be an effective weapon in some circumstances even in modern war. “Think,” he said, “of the effect on a group of Germans if one of them suddenly dropped with an arrow through him. “They would have no idea where the arrow came from. They would be terrified. “I should be pretty sure of a hit at fifty or sixty yards. At thirty five yards an arrow would be deadly.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20384, 22 October 1940, Page 11
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