A unit photo of a Home Guard mounted unit, provenance unclear.  Looking at the members, the Captain Square/Sir Bufton Tufton/local hunt character of this group comes through.  Like the English Yeomanry of old, Home Guard mounted units were always clearly a minority compared to the common "militia" represented by the general HG rank-and-file.  When the Home Guard came into formal existence in June, 1940, it would have been consistent with general practice to allow de facto Local Defence Volunteer mounted units to be absorbed into the new force as established facts.  But how long did they continue in existence ?  Evidence is, really, fragmentary.  Best regards, JR.

More Home Guard donkey wallopers.

Firemans trying to put out fires from a bombing in Helsinki, July, 9th. 1941
Helsinki was bombed 39 times during the Continuation War. 245 people were killed and 646 wounded, the majority in the three big raids of 1944.

Fight against fire 1941

German officer lay down a wreath on the memorial of the 54 German soldier and 16 Finnish white guard soldier who died during liberation of the Helsinki when Germans and Finnish White Guards push Red Guards out from the city 1918

Helsinki, Park of the old church 1943.04.12