Newspaper photo of Home Guard in Daily Sketch. Newspaper article ' Isle of the Over 40's' in The Daily Telegraph.

Photo caption : ‘Sailors learn soldiering’ – Home Guard at firing practice on the beach appeared in newspaper 1 July 1942. Article about over 50 men out of population of 270 serving in Second World War, mostly at sea. Recalls some wartime stories and mentions John Markwell , coxswain.