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An ‘ordinary’ war wedding at Prestatyn. Private Edward Albion George (Geoff Charles’ brother-in-law) and his bride Gladys face an uncertain future. For service wives, married life was not always the fairytale they expected and they often faced a long period of separation after the wedding day as the bridegroom returned to the front line.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pictures of Interest, and we'd love to have this added to the group! God love them for the courage they showed by simply "getting on with it" and trying to make the best of things in those times. What a very 'touching' picture.

”No one can understand history unless he reads it – Not from the pages of the books the government approves, But from the eyes and ears and mouths of those who lived it.”

Very nicely put MLP, very nicely put.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called fall beautiful, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Very often where there was a shortage of agricultural labourers soldiers training locally would help out during harvests. Pictured here are soldiers based in Montgomeryshire taking a break during potato harvesting at Llwydiarth.

In the event of a German invasion it was a requirement to ring the church bells. The Llandyssil, Montgomeryshire, Home Guard got the opportunity to practice their rapid response when the church bells were rung inadvertently in September 1940. This caused great alarm that day as church bells in nearby villages followed the example.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The British Home Guard and Civil Defense: WWII, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Oddly enough these guys do look like the cast of Dads Army, Particularly the bloke on the far left.

Can you imagine this lot taking on a German parachute division had they ever actually arrived?