Home Guards returning from camouflage training, Autumn 1940.  Either that, or they have fallen victim to the (proverbial) Home Guard defective map reading, and marched into a slurry pit.  The Missus will not be pleased when they get home ... Best regards, JR.

Really heavy camouflage ...

MR. CHURCHILL, IN HIS STIRRING BROADCAST TO BRITAIN AND THE WORLD ON JULY 14, 1940:—

"All goes to show that the war will be long and hard. No one can tell where it will spread. One thing is certain—the peoples of Europe will not be ruled for long by the Nazi Gestapo, nor will the world yield itself to Hitler's gospel of hatred and domination … 

"Here in this strong city of refuge, which enshrines the title deeds of human progress and is of deep consequence to Christian civilization; here, girt about by the seas and oceans where the Navy reigns, shielded from above by the staunchness and devotion of our airmen, we await undismayed the impending assault … 

"But be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy—we shall ask none."
ENGLAND PREPARES FOR INVASION

Undaunted by Nazi threats of annihilation, Britain prepared to defend herself against attack by sea or air. Barbed wire entanglements were erected at strategic points, as shown  where Big Ben is silhouetted behind its unaccustomed defense. Signposts were removed from all roads  and the streets of London  were barricaded and strongly guarded.

July 14, 1940 speech

Albert Bedane, French-born, British (Jersey) naturalized, WW1 veteran (Hertfordshire Regt.) masseur/physiotherapist ... and rescuer of fugitives from the German authorities on Jersey, Channel Islands, during the occupation.

Bedane's rescuing activities started with Mrs Mary Richardson, a Netherlands-born Jewish lady, who was due for  to "a very nice special camp" in June, 1943.  Instead, she vanished - into Albert Bedane-s two-room basement, where she was hidden for over two years.  By 1944, the basement was getting a bit crowded, its inhabitants including a Jerseyman who had attempted to escape the island, a French PoW, and a number of Soviet PoW/slave workers on the run from the Todt Organisation.  Postwar interviews with the French PoW testify to Bedane's modesty; he himself said postwar that "if I was going to be killed, I would rather be killed for a shep than a lamb".  He was well aware of the fact that, by sheltering these people, he was placing himself in mortal danger.  Other Jersey people had been killed for less.  Yet he did it not deter him.  His "guests" lived in his concealed basement while German officers received physio treatment in the clinic above them, and Bedane traded professional services for food with his farming neighbours in order to keep the refugees fed.

Albert Bedane has received some recognition for his heroism, most notably in the posthumous award of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, in honour of his rescue of Mrs Richardson.  The Soviet Government awarded him, along with a number of other Channel Islanders, with a gold watch (!) in recognition of his rescue of Soviet fugitives.  There have also been one or two blue plaques.  As far as I know, neither the Dutch (Mrs Richardson's original nationality) or even British governments have honoured this modest hero for humanity for his courage.  Best regards, JR.