AMERICAN SQUADRON
OF BRITISH HOME GUARD. ; INSPECTED BY MR CHURCHILL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 9. Mr. Churchill inspected the first American motorised squadron of the. Home Guard on the Horse Guards Parade. The squadron is made up of Americans resident in London, and is formally recognised as a unit of the Home Guard by Order in Council published in September. Fifty men of the squadron (the full strength is 72) were on parade under the commanding officer. BrigadierGeneral Wade H. Hayes, an American company director, who served in the United States Army in the last war. Behind them were vehicles, mostly fast American ears, which have been presented to the squadron. Brigadier-General Hayes said: "We have got business men. bankers, engineers. lawyers, advertising men. efficiency experts, and even a doctor of philosophy, to say nothing of newspaper men.'
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1941, Page 2
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