An original photograph by an unknown photographer.
As well as carrying out general Home Guard local defense duties and guarding telephone exchanges, these men would’ve been experts in repairing damaged telephone lines.
Note the Lincolnshire Regiment cap badges.
An Imagined Blue Plaque for Fred Bacon (1874–1966), Founder of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District YMCA
Grimsby
“I wrote about this being my grandfather's boat - he was the engineer. It was first registered as INS 11 and is pronounced Pit-gay-vnay not Pit-gav-enny.”
Libby Lamb, 21 October 2026
“My grandfather was the engineer on this drifter when she was fishing out of Lossiemouth and then working as a minesweeper at Scapa Flow from 1915.”
Libby Lamb, 20 October 2026
“Stuart sent me a framed photo of the above photo. He was a dear friend of many years through first knowing his dear wife and lovely son.It is with great saddnessto learn of Stuarts death we emailed regularly ,he was a humble lovely person.I am chronically sick and bedbound ,Stuart's emails were always a pleasure to read and reply to.He was a nan of great integrity and humilityand the world has been better for him being part of itHow lovely ifa BleuePlaque could be erected fir himit is richly deserved.A lovely man who will be n greatly missed”
Cathy James, 19 October 2026
Grimsby Home Guard Soldiers; a WW2 photo by S. J. Warren
Essex Regiment Officers in Grimsby during WW2
Lincolnshire Home Guard; RAF Digby c1940
Grimsby ‘Chums’ Battalion, Lincs. Regt. 1914
10th (‘Grimsby Chums’) Service Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment; young soldiers training at Brocklesby Park 1915
Grimsby Chums Battalion marching along Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby 1914
