To protect their towns from invasion.
A lot of field exercises and drills went into their training
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After they got out of prison, they went back home to rebuild their lives.
Stewart Granger was in the Black Watch
After the war, they were either escaped to other countries or were captured andexecuted Some were justimprisonedfor life.
There were 1.5 million volunteer army guards that were the alternative defense if Nazis or their allies tried to attack the country of Britain and major factories.
dick king smith said in his book " he served in the Grenadier Guards during the second world war"