Home Guard training documents discovered in attic
The training questions how officers would respond to various reports of German troops invading parts of Gloucestershire A set of documents showing how local Home Guard volunteers were trained during World War Two have been discovered in an attic. The typewritten pages show scenarios to test how officers from E Company of the 4th (Forest of Dean) Battalion Home Guard, based in Mitcheldean, would respond to different situations, including finding four dead Germans lying near motor cycles at Westbury on Severn. Found in his attic in Ruspidge, Bill Acland said he does not know who the "fascinating" papers, dating back to 1943, belonged to. The documents have now been added to a collection of Home Guard artefacts at the Dean Heritage Centre, which will go on display over remembrance. Patients unable to access GP websites Farm shop struggling as roadworks hit trade Homes target 'risks…