| Description | Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard material, 1940-1942, in particular for D Company, 64 West Riding (Sheffield) Battalion, Home Guard, of which Hughes was Second in Command:
Personnel documents: resignation letters; memos; annotated lists of names, ages, addresses for H.G. Sections A-G and for L.D.V. Corps at Stannington, Rivelin Bridge, Loxley, Dungworth and Bradfield, including trade or occupation and any armed service or weapons skills (thirty five items).
Orders: H.G. Orders by Maj. Gen. P.J. Sears, Commanding West Riding District; Battalion Orders by Lt. Col. H.R. Caulfield-Giles Commanding 64 West Riding (Sheffield) Battalion; Company Orders by Maj. T. Marshall, Commanding D Company, 64 West Riding (Sheffield) Battalion (ten items).
Administrative documents: expense claims; Officers' Mess rules; memos on detection of enemy aircraft, parachutists, unexploded bombs, colouring leather belts and gaiters, rationing, camps, and the function of L.D.V.s; reports on doctrine and liaison between H.G. and Civilian Defence Authorities; H.G. and L.D.V. door labels; message form pad; forms for petrol used in H.G. duty; motor fuel ration book; fuel coupons; requisition for transport forms; H.G. identity cards [all forms, coupons and cards are unused] (forty items).
Training and tactical documents: training programmes; tactical exercises, instructions and operation orders; H.G. tactical policy; training instructions on security, ammunition, tanks, signals, weapons, hostile air landings, casualty clearing, incendiary agents (thirty seven items).
Printed material, 1937-1942: Military Training booklets on small arms, protection against gas, Infantry Section leading, Dannart concertina wire (enclosing), Dannart concertina wire (obstacles), drill for Foot Guards and Infantry of the Line, fieldcraft and elementary tactics, training of snipers, H.G. road blocks and check points; extracts from Army training memoranda numbers 40, 42, 43; amendments sheet for Elementary Map Reading; Home Guard Instructions numbers 3, 10-14, 16-18, 20, 22-24, 26, 26-28, 30-31, 35, 38, 41-42, 50; Home Guard Information Circulars numbers 2, 7, 10; Local Defence Volunteer Instructions numbers 2, 4-9, and report of a meeting between C.-in-C. Home Forces, Gen. Ironside, and leaders of L.D.V. explaining L.D.V. duties, 5 Jun 1940; sixteen Army Council Instructions issued 15 Aug 1940-9 Feb 1942; 'The Defence of Bloodford Village', 1940, written as a narrative giving details of the fictitious defence of a typical English village from a German attack; War Damage Act, 1941, parts I and II; 'War: the U.S. Army', no.23 25 Jul 1942; 'Current Affairs: The British Empire', no.23 1 Aug 1942; Popular Guide to the German Army numbers 3-5, 1941 (sixty nine items). |