REGARDING Eric Leaver's recollections of the wartime Home Guard (LET, May 25 and June 1), before joining the RAF in 1940, I, too, was in 'Dad's Army' and, at 19, was a bit like Private Pike.

But I don't know how many are aware that the Home Guard's original name, the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers), was often said to stand for Look, Duck and Vanish!

ALBERT J MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.

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